AT AND AROUND MOTUEKA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 19 September 1911, Page 6

AT AND AROUND MOTUEKA

HEAVIEST FLOOD FOR YEAES. AN ANXIOUS TIME. DAMAGE AND LOSS OF STOCK. (By Telephone.) (From Our Own -Reporter.) MOTUEKA, Tins Day. Th e floods last night were higher than for 34 years. The water in the streets was with'in three inches of the "•old man flood" mark. The water broke- through at the protective works at Whakarewa, and poured in immense violence all through" the borough, there 'beintr six inches of water in High-street. Houses in the lowJvine parts of the town were flooded, and the residents spent an anxious night, some removing from tlreir dwellings before the flood rose too liio-h. Many people "were about all night rendering assistance. A good deal of damage has been Gone to cro.ps, and many sheep have been drowned.

The flood reached its height at 4 o'clock this morning; but it has now subsided Tapidly owing to a heavy fall of snow in the ranges, which saved the situation.

News from Ngatimoti states that the. vertical pier of the new suspension bridge has been moved from the perpendicular. At Lower Moutere the approach 1 to the new .bridge has been washed away. The Nelson coach was go 1 ' over by taking out the horses.

Ou Ngatimoti correspondent wrote under yesterday's date: —A great quantity of rain had fallen up to 5 p.m. to.day. The Orinoco was higher than for many years past., but no damage has been done. .Tire Motueka river is very high and still rising, and probably will do a great deal of da. mage near Motueka The pier erected in the centre of the river for a bridge across to the peninsula is washed down. Tfc i s said to have cost £;">00 to £(>00. The back water is runnino- under Mr Daniell's house, and lip and his family have left their heme for a neighbour's, Mr I'M. Haycock 's.