OLD MANGAKAHIA RECORD ECLIPSED
The first few days of February are evidently destined to be fateful ones for the people in the Mangakahia Valley. ■
The preyioUs “old-man” flood occurred on February 3, 1917, and now its record has .been left behind by the flood of February 2, 1936.
• The water-level, completely submerging the Titoki Bridge, was 18 inches above , the; 1917 .level, and, on this occasion, the flood was six inches above the hand-rail in the centre span.
A large stack of decking ready for the of the bridge, which was piled above a chain up the hill, had disappeared by dawn yesterday morning. -
On Mr .A. C. McCardle’s property,
where the flood usually takes at least
12 hours to rise, all the flat land was i inundated to.a great depth within six hours. The ' roof of one cowshed peeped six inches above the water. A big washout has occurred on the Titoki side of the Wairua Falls Bridge, but traffic has room to get past.
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Northern Advocate, 3 February 1936, Page 8
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