FLOOD IN THE WAIMAKARIRI
MOtORIStS-HELD UP. (Ujh4»p P*iM AaifooiAWon ) . A •CHBISTGHURCH, This. Day. The Waimakari'rf River, started rising very' rapidly 'yesterday afterftboh, And there resulted the; biggest inundation for three years. About '^O 1 motorists, enSiced out 7 by the fine day,. Were caught getting back to Christchurch, aixluripsfr of them had ii> stay-in Kaiapoi. Three automobiles we're, stuck: in the water '4,l Chaney's, and had to be pulled out by a horse. , h - About 100 acres of 'Coutt s under water. Little damage will be: done to'stock, but a good deal of crop, and pasture may be spoilt. ■■,', ,• '.' . Bealey reports that 'the "Waimakanrj is about 6ft above normal. It is* raining heavily from tlio northwest. _. , : Later. . The flood in the Waimakariri is 4 now receding. There is little damage, except to pasturage.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 8 October 1917, Page 5
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