HEAVY RAINFALL.
EAST COAST INUNDATED. A TRAIN ISOLATED. flood in gisborne port. [by telegraph.PßESS ASSOCIATION".] Gisborne, Tuesday. Heavy rain has fallen over the eastorn seaboard from the East Cape to Maliia Peninsula. At G>sborne, the, total for the month has reached 5.60 in, which is the greatest quantity of rain that ha? fallen for any one month during the past two years. Owing to a washout on the railway today the train for the north could not get beyond Otoko. a small country centre, and lady passengers had 10 be accommodated in the railway station, while the men of the party had to accommodate themselves in the railway cars. A temporary railway bridge across, the Waipaoa River, on the line to Napier, in course of construction, was carried away to-night. The rain continues steadily, and at Motu seven inches fell in 24 hours. The Turanganui River, on which the port is built, is runing high, and all vessels have been double-moored. A crisis is expected in the harbour when the tide conies in about midnight. . Two launches mo&red in the harbour were swept out to sea to^night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15566, 25 March 1914, Page 9
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187HEAVY RAINFALL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15566, 25 March 1914, Page 9
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