STILL MORE RAIN

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 3230, 10 June 1924, Page 4

STILL MORE RAIN

HEAVY FLOODS EXPERIENCED SERIOUS POSITION IN LOW-LYING COUNTRY. After a short period of beautiful weather last week, rain again set in, and the week-end was exceedingly dismal and wet. Saturday was a shockingly wet day. Eain set in early in tho morning, and continued without intermission the whole day, and the greater part of the night. So persistent was the downpour that all football matches "and other sports wore declared "off." There was not much rain on Sunday, but it was a very damp, dismal day. Again yesterday rain fell all day —a thick drizzle, with never a gleam of sunshine —days very seldom experienced in the sunny Waikato. As a result of the continued rain the country is exceedingly wot. Fortunately no floods have been experienced in this district, but water lies thick in many paddocks, and the roads are in a deplorable, condition, Tho rainfall recorded in Cambridge for the past four days has been: For the 2+ hours up to Saturday morning, .08in; Sunday,- 2.03 in; Monday, .37in; this morning, .59in; total, 3.07 in for the four days. At Koto;o-rangi the rainfall for the past four days has totalled 3.27 in, the figures being: 6th, .10in; 7th, 2.16 in; Sth, .27in; 9th, .74in. The glass is now rising. It has risen 28 points since yesterday, and the prospects are brighter. Auckland city's rainfall for the" in-nth up to 9 a.m. yesterday totallod 3.59 in. HAMILTON." HAMILTON, Juno 9. For the seventh week-end in succession rain has fallon at Hamilton. A heavy downpour fell on Saturday morning, and continued until three o'clock in the aftornoon. In eonsequeco of the rain, all outdoor sports were postponed. The rainfall for the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. on Sunday was 1.99 inches. There was no rain here to-day, with the exception of a light fall in the evening. IN THE CITY. Auckland City, along with the remainder of the province, has sufferod the boisterous and exceptionally wet week-end weather, but experienced a doluge on Saturday morning shortly after 11 a.m. For an hour the fall was torrential and the lower portions of Queen Street were flooded. At the intersection of "Wellesley and Queen Streets the water reached to the top of the pavements and for a short period shopkeepers in this area fearer an inundation. The rainfall in Auckland for the 48 hours ending midnight on Sunday totallod 3.45 inches. IN OTHER DISTRICTS. THAMES, Monday. As a result'of the torrential downpour during the week-end the Hauraki Plains district is very much flooded. The banks of the Piako are not discernible as the river is one sheet of water half a mile wide. There is no flooding at Thames or Parawai. In the Paeroa district the same conditions were experienced' but no damage has been reported. At Morrinsville 1.60 inches was registered between 10 a.m. and 4 p,m. on Saturday