THE FLOODS.

Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10194, 17 January 1907, Page 1

THE FLOODS.

I The aoamt reports which, have) *> ffir leaked through. biyi Way of Taiuiranga show that thle roadJ froiu Taurwuga to , Rotoruai has suffered to a great extent 2?\> less, it is imported, than 13----chaiins of road! have foelen, ■washed •away, and the telegraph lines hive suffered also, as tthtey usually follow the roadL Some of the bridges en route arie also threatened- . Several landslips are" reported. ! Deyondl Katikati, on towards Talu'rangia], some of thiei .bridges are ©arer'ed by several feet of rushing water. *g Slips on :th|e road ajrie also, reported. Neivei" at any time has "the road pr^sen'bedi such, a watery aippearaffpe. ! The Ohiinemiuri River was bank higih, and presented a swirling mlass of^discoloured, tumbling waited, Clarifying with it a mass »f debris amd! increasing; in quantity and rapidity onliJta course to the sea outlet. Tierney's ibridge, whichi wag waSlhlod away, and which, the floodl sdbsequenbIty taairried holiis Ibblusi along, it« oour&ei. - brought up a* the Taurajiga'bridlge. " Sinbsequentlly it was larShedi tos the ' ' stricture. . . .■•.'.' | It is -^eport^edl thiaiti thle iaolmenile^ area ol low-lying lamid 1 ihetween Paie-'' r&a and To Aroha is ptfatetioally. a lake, and thlat several houses are flooded for sieveral feet above the floor- A.t and Ibelow the Puk© the douniiry 'ia oo'Vetfadl with! water raingjng s int deptli from anytihing' lip to 7. or* 8 feet. fc*,. miles. 'Oiur Taurangaj contempofary says: —•"The rain has done tKoiisandsl of poiundsi worth of daimiage 1 to thie . oat oi'ops, which tlhis year were carceeidlißJg- ' ly gioodl in the Tianiranga and! T© Puk's dista*i<?t, amdl unfortunately ishtei lieiavy •raan which' has followed; on tKalti of % few days agoi will do irrejpar»bl& . harm."