DISASTROUS FLOODS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 28, 27 July 1911, Page 8

DISASTROUS FLOODS

CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE IN BLENHEIM.. By Telegraph—Press Association. Blenheim, Wednesday. The Hood waters are now receding. The town presents an extremely filthy appearance. The water entered nearly every business place, and the people are now "busily engaged sweeping out mud and slush. In .some of the outlying parts of the town the water attained a depth of from live to six feet, and the people had to be removed from their homes to higher levels. In several places the protective banks gave way, allowing the water to pour into the town, while in others the Hood topped the high banks. A good number of horses and cattle perished, but there is no loss of life reported. Levin and Co. and the Union Company's premises were-'undermined and one of the interior walls collapsed. The water is still scouring out the foundations, and the building is in danger of collapsing. : A, far as can be ascertained, the farming districts have escaped the Hood. The railway service is suspended lndefini.dy. ■■•' HLCODS AND SNOW IN CANTERBURY. Christchurch, Wednesday. The papers state that, consequent on tie rain and unusually high tides, the Avon overflowed its banks as . far as Burwood. Other rivers are flooded, and at Darfield water was flowing into the township. Between Waddington and Springfield twenty telegraph poles are down, and it is feared that'further inland the wires are very seriously damaged. Several trains were delayed a considerable time through washouts and slips. Twelve inches of rain has fallen on Banks Peninsula since Saturday night. At Oxford a foot of snow has "fallen on the lower lands, and a heavier fall at higher altitudes.