Napier Floods.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6871, 22 April 1897, Page 3

Napier Floods.

(!'T tex.ei;f.afh.) N\m;t:, April 22. Reports from Puketapu show that the residents there suffered severely by the Hood. . Harry Gardiner lost his house, containing four rooms, and all Ins furniture. Snail's house was washed off the and 4ft of silt remains inside. lhe water was right np to the roof. Hayes had ">ft ot water indoors, and all the furniture was washed out. The house of Morris of Woodthorpe. was completely wrecked and most of the furniture ts <>one. The family had to crass the hiII-< to get to Okaiwa, as there was no phc2 of refuse between those two localities. The family are being accommodated at the Okaiwa homestead. The roads at Puketapu are all blocked, making vehicular traffic was never so much water before in that place within the memory of the oldest settlers. t> The Tutaekuri broke its brink at t akowhal, and again at Mr Heslop, sen.'s. where on hundreds of acres there are from 2ft to sft of silt. J. Haslett's woolshcd was considerably damaged, and 14 bales of wool disapPe The*paddock of -J. Heslop is covered •with totara logs. Langtey Shaw got through from inland of Patea after a joarney which occupied three days. He reports that the roads in that district are completely washed away. Birch Brothers are heavy losers. Wool stored in a whare 15 feet above the ordinary tlood level was carried away. Farther donations are : Williams and Beetham, Masterton, LLOO; Rosa and Glendintng, L3O; Nathan, Wellington, L 43 ; Hallenstein, L3O ; Evans and Co., Timaro. and Timarn Milling Co., a ton of four each.