FARMERS’ LOSSES
RECENT FLOODS IN NORTH Gisborne, March 9. Rapid progress is being made in reopening the railway and main road outlets. The railway is expected to be available for traffic as far as Wairoa on Saturday and to Napier on Monday. The first inward mail of the week came by air yesterday when a small amount of first-class matter was brought. Aeroplanes are expected to be used till the overland outlets are restored. While the losses of farmers concern mainly the burying of pasture and crops under deep silt over thousands of acres and the sweeping away of fences, gates and farm bridges, the individual losses in stock are substantial in cases where insufficient warning was given of the approach of the flood. One man lost all but a few of 500 sheep, and another estimates his loss at 250. ROADS STILL BLOCKED Napier, March 9. There is a continued if gradual improvement in the weather generally, but it will be some time yet before the roads to Taupo and Wairoa can be opened to traffic. It is not likely that ! the rail service to Wairoa will be open- I eel before Monday.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 March 1944, Page 4
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194FARMERS’ LOSSES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 March 1944, Page 4
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