HEAVY RAINS IN THE NORTH ISLAND.
SLIP IN THE MANAWATU GORGE. , (Unitbd Pkess Assoc»4-i .on.) I PALMERSTON N., Mon. Henvy rains have fallen to-day, but cspscaally on the watershed. The. .nfierncon train from Woodvilk got--tlirough, but after it passed there ''wn* a big slip in the middle of" the Mvnbwatu Gorge, which came down amidst such 'heavj- rain that tbo men wcv« corn.- ■ peledtoleaveit, Tbo train which should have reached here from Dannevirke was > flopped at Woodville, and tb a train '■. fl'om here to Woodville returned to ' Akehnrst. As it is impossible to tell the. extent of the damage at present, , it is not known whether communication : can be restored by the morning The slip was too bad for! the .passengers to bo transferred. The rivers ara rising.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 21 September 1909, Page 4
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