DAIRY FARMERS SUFFER.
Electric Telegraph—Press Association _ HAXGIOTU, February 3. 1 lie worst flood 'for many" years is at present being experienced by settlers who have their homesteads °n the river banks between Rangiotu and Hangitane and so suddenly did the water descend on to the aie a. that no time was given in which stock could be removed to safety. Tlu, homos of AJossrs Russo!!, Jenkins McCalhim, Moore (2), Keily. Griffin, Fawcett, Barnes, Ware Alve., Harrison and Lett are coni- ] lecoiy surrounded and the families ere unable to leave. Then- outlook this afternoon was a black one as the Mnnawatu was continuing to pour over. Herds are standing in water and it is feared morning will reveal that manv cows have been drowned. Messrs Harrison and Lett are reported to have alreadv lost of their herd.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13174, 5 February 1936, Page 2
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