GALE AND FLOOD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14703, 7 September 1918, Page 2

GALE AND FLOOD.

TRAINS HELD UP BY £LIPS. > ' DAMAGE TO PROPERTY. {Per Press Association). ',''■ \ . WANGANUI, this day. Eighteen hours' continuous rain> sue- ' ceeded by a heavy southerly' gale, , caused, considerable disorganisation of 3 the railway service. Last night's- express from Auckland was held up.seveii j hours by a slip at. Greatford barik. ; Thet local train from Palmerston to Wahganui did not arrive at Wanganui. last nighty there being slips at Wangaehan '_ and ■. Fordell. The passengers speiuV3-b ; night m the train, and came Yon -' ihi» : ; morning by motors v The; Wanganui- ',■ , Hawera" section is also blocked by slips. No trains left town this morning: fll ° f aJe antJ fl^od. destroyed- sevcpii hundred feet of the freezing company's '_ jetty at Imlay. V;' ..,.%■ Y^Y;.;:^: Repair work on. the railway hridgfe •■ ;, at Aramoho was damaged.- •> , V-; »- t \ ■■: ■'*'-. - TTMAIWv IJnst niMlt. YY , \ A southerly-storm with heavy rati! «ef ' m at midday. Previous rains' had hindered f aimers getting, oh with the springsowing of their wheat; so that a reduction of the intended- wheat area must 1 ' I still further detrimentally affect' .the s next harvest prospects. .