Heavy Silting in Akitio Area
UP TO TOP OF FENCES DANNEVIRKE, May 6. It is still difficult to obtain details of flood damage in the Akitio district. Telephones are out of action, and the ;latest reports are that it will cost many thousands of pounds to effect repairs. Land slips have occurred on farms over a widespread area, while there is silting on the flats. Somewhat similar conditions prevailed in the Esk Valley, in Northern Hawke’s Bay, after the flood there in 1938. There is silt up to the top of the fences where such are standing, but the settlers will not suffer the same personal inconveniences as did those in the Esk Valley. Carcases of dead stock are strewn everywhere. Owing to numerous drop-outs on the road between Weber and Pongaroa, it is estimated that it will take at least six weeks to blast a new road out of the rock face.-
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 107, 7 May 1941, Page 6
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