WAIRARAPA FLOODS.
(Per Press Association.) Master ton, .July 26
Information has been received in Mastertoil tJiat the weatner on the east coast lias been very rough. From Castlcpoint to Capo 'farakatf (Ihilliser Bay) the seas have'been the heaviest experienced for many years. The Wairarapa Lake is in flood, and hundreds of acres of low-lying country in the vicinity are under water. Some mountain streams in the western lake and Martinborough districts scoured away a considerable area, of land which had been denuded of trees, and had nothing to hold the soil together. Sovehd householders in Masterton have had a trying time during the storm this week on account ol the surface water flowing into their dwellings. In three or four instances, houses were completely surrounded by water. One family, in order to roach their abode dry-footed, had to climb along a fence, the water in, front and at tne sides of the' building being several inches deep.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 131, 26 July 1911, Page 6
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