STREETS FLOODED.
Fierce Electrical Storm at Auckland. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, May 3. Abnormally heavy rain which fell shortly before ten o’clock to-night, following an electrical storm, with vivid lightning flashes and heavy thunder, caused flooding in the lower portions of Queen Street, and subjected theatregoers to much inconvenience and discomfort. In many places the water was over a j foot deep, and people alighting from j
trams or hurrying to ferries were compelled to wade through a torrent. The water overflowed the kerbs as far down as Victoria Street, with the consequence that it was inches deep from ,* footpath to footpath even across the : tram tracks. It was at this hour that crowds were J leaving the theatres. People were t huddled in their hundreds on foot- * ways, not daring to step into the stream, and amazed at the unprece- . dented sight. Taxi-drivers made a harvest.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20296, 4 May 1934, Page 11
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