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FLOOD AT WAIMAUKU. "Fbou Odr Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, December 27. One of the heaviest floods on record was experienced at Waima.uku, in the Kaipara district, during tho week end. Heavy rain foil nil day on Saturday, consequently the whole of tho low-lying country is under water. It was found on Saturday that it was impossible for traffic to proceed to Muriwai Beach, consequently the holiday-makers arriving by tho last trains were stranded at Waimnuku. A party of about 20 succeeded in obtaining a public hall as a camp, and others were given accommodation by residents. On Sunday morning campers wore able to “strike” their impromptu camps, and proceed on their various journeys. Wuimaulcu is so named on account of an old-time flood which covered tho land so that only the tops of cabbage trees were visible, the place name being a compound .of “wai,” moaning water and “nmuku,” cabbage tree.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18747, 28 December 1922, Page 5
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