FLOODS AT GISBORNE.
RAILWAY WASH-OUT. DAMAGE EXPECTED. (Per Press Association.) GISBORNE, March 24. It has been raining steadily for tho past three days, and all rivers and creeks in the district are badly swollen. Owing -to a washout to-day's train for the north could not progress beyond Otoko, a small country centre, and lady passengers had to be accommodated in a railway camp, while the men of the party had to accommodate themselves in railway cars. A temporary railways bridge across the Waipoa river on the line to Napier, in course of construction, was carried away to-night. The rain continues steadily. At Motu 7 inches fell in 24 hours, while in Gisborne over three inches fell in two day. The Tauranganui river, on which the jwrt is built, 2s running high and all vessels have been moored. A crisis is exnected in the harbour when the tide, comes in about midnight. Two launches moored in the river were swept out to sea to-night.
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Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15304, 25 March 1914, Page 7
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163FLOODS AT GISBORNE. Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15304, 25 March 1914, Page 7
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