FLOOD WATERS RECEDE.
NELSON SERVICES RESTORED.
A PHENOMENAL RAINFALL.
[BT TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
NELSON. Thursday
The weather cleared last evening and to-day was fine in Nelson City, although there were heavy clouds about. The flood water in the Lower Moutere Valley went down yesterday afternoon, allowing late motor services to run between Nelson and Motueka. The cars ran to timetable this morning.
There was a phenomenal rainfall in the Lower Moutere Valley area early on Wednesday morning. At Harakeke 8.66 inches of rain were recorded up to 9 a.m., and the greater part of it fell between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. In the past 16 years only on one occasion has the fall reached 4 inches in 24 hours. That was last July.
Relief gangs worked all yesterday afternoon on the slips at both ends of the Spooner's Range railway tunnel, so that the Nels'on-Kawatiri train, which had waited at Belgrove all day, was enabled to pass through the tunnel in the evening. The usual train services are running to-day.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20537, 11 April 1930, Page 10
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