FLOODING ON WEST COAST
INUNDATION AT HOKITIKA ROAD IMPASSABLE IN PARTS AGED MAN KILLED IN CREEK GREY MAY RISE FURTHER By Telegraph.—Presi Association. Greymouth, Last Night. Heavy rain has flooded all the West Coast streams. The Grey River .tonight was within five feet of the wharf level and may rise higher. The Hokitika River was in high flood this evening after heavy inland rainfall. Hokitika streets were inundated, as ’was an area alongside the banks at Kanieri.
Numerous slips have occurred on the coast road between Hokitika and Westport, but cars went through to-dav. There have been some stock losses in the Grey Valley. The Inangahua River has flooded. The roads from , Greymouth to Runanga, in the Grey Valley, also southwards and to Otira, are tonight reported impassable in places. On the Otira Road there was a fatality in a flooded creek. Charles Murtha, aged 67, Kumara, fell on a stone, fracturing his skull, when trying to push a motorcar. through the water.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 February 1933, Page 7
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