THE WAIKATO FLOODS.
SERIOUS INJURY TO CROPS. [bt telegraph.-Vown CORRESPONDENTS.] Hamilton, Thursday. Raglan has been visited with a heavier flood, perhaps, than any other part of the district. Grain crops have been more or less injured. Potatoes on low-lying lands are rotting in the ground. A large breadth of cocksfoot dead ripe has been seriously damaged, if not altogether lost. Whatawhata, Thursday. The loss of the potato crop on the Waipa will be very seriously felt, not only by the settlers, but by the natives. About threefourths of the area planted has been destroyed by the floods, and this includes nearly all the potatoes grown by the natives. Indeed, there are only about two acres grown by them which have escaped, a small patch growing on the high lands. The Waipa river rose eleven feet in half the number of hours. The Koromata bridge and ap. proaches are reported to have been covered to the depth of at least fifteen feet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9102, 20 January 1893, Page 5
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