Floods on the West Coast
FATALITY IN FLOODED CREEK Per Pross Association GREYMOUTH, Last Night. Heavy rain flooded all tho West Coast streams. Tho Grey river tonight was within fivo feet of the wharf and the level may rise higher. The Hokitika river is in high flood this evening after heavy inland rainfall and tho Hokitika streets are inundated, also an area alongside the banks at Kanieri. There are numerous slips on the Coast road between there and Westport but cars got through to-day.
There have been some stock losses in the Grey Valley. The Inangahua river is flooded. The roads from Greymouth to Runanga in the Grey Valley, also southwards and to Otira are to-night reported impassable in places.
On the Otira road a fatality occurred in a flooded creek when Charles Murtha, aged 67, of Kunmra, fell on a stone fracturing his skull when trying to push a motor car through the water.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7070, 1 February 1933, Page 6
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