FLOODS IN AUCKLAND DISTRICT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8359, 15 February 1907, Page 5

FLOODS IN AUCKLAND DISTRICT.

By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 14. A Waipu telegram states:—There are appalling floods here. A number of cattle and sheep have been drowned. Timber booms have been broken and the logs washed out to sea. The mail coach is sui-rounded by the flood. The rainfall in the Auckland district during the last 24 hours was 2| inches, being .17 inches more than the heaviest rainfall for any 24 hours during the recent floods The Kingsland and Devonport cricket grounds are again flooded, If the present conditions continue for another 24 hours, country settlers will experience a bad time, as the flooded area in the lower Waikato had not been altogether drained when the present rain commenced.

A BOY DROWNED. AUCKLAND, February 14. Further floods are reported from the country districts. At the Maungaturoto Dairy Factory a boy, ■named George Knight, fell into the flooded creek this morning, and has not since been heard of. He has evidently been drowned.

MAIL COACH SWEPT AWAY. " TOWNSHIP PARTLY UNDER t WATER. NUMBERS OF CATTLE AND SHEEP DROWNED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE.

WHANGAREI, February 14. A heavy, continuous downpour, in this district caused floods greater in volume than those a month ago. At the Wairoa Creek crossing the mail coach was swept away, the horses attached being drowned, and the driver having a narrow escape. Railway traffic is impeded, and telegraphic communication is delayed, while the lower part of the town was for a time flooded. Much damage has been done. At Waipu the floods were.the largest on record, and part of the township is lying twelve feet under water. Numbers of cattle and sheep have been drowned. The potato crops have been completely ruined, and owing to the bursting of the booms a large quantity of kauri timber has been washed out to sea. The rain has now abated, but the outlook is still threatening.