RAIN CAUSED FLOODS
BRIDGES DAMAGED. MAIN ROAD SCOURED. (Per Press Association. —Copyright.) WELLINGTON. Saturday. Rain during the past two or three days has been steady in the hills, and the Hutt River has again flooded. Some of the low-lyiug lands in the \alley have been covered with water. Some of the bridges on the Akataravs Rpad have .been damaged. In the Taita Gorge the scourage of the main road to the Wairarapa, which began in the last flood, has resumed, and workmen are finding it difficult to keep the way open for traffic. The water entered shops at Otaki. The railway is inundated, but traffic is not .affected. The rivers are running fairly high, but the floods are now subsiding. TRAFFIC SUSPENDED. TELEPHONE WIRES DOWN. MANY SLIPS OCCUR. (Special to “Northern Advocate.”) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. As a result of heavy rain, in Taranaki at, the latter end of the week, many slips have occurred, on the Main North Road, on Mt. Messenger and in the Awakino River Valley. ‘ Traffic was held up for several hours yesterday morning by the largest slip, which was about half a chain in length. The slip took place halfway up the mountain, and cars bound for the north were forced to return to Uruti. The work of clearing the slips was completed sufficiently after several hours to allow traffic to go through, and the service cars from Auckland reached New Plymouth only slightly behind schedule time. The telephone wires, between Uruti and Awakino were brought down.
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Northern Advocate, 15 June 1931, Page 7
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