FLOODS ROUND GISBORNE.
WASH-OUT ON THE RAILWAY.
[By Telegraph—Press Association..]
GISBORNE, Tuesday
It lias been raining steadily for the past three days, and all rivers and. creeks in the district are badly swollen. Owing to a wash-out on the railway, to-day's train for the north could not. progress beyond Otoko, n. small country centre, and lady passengers had to be accommodated in the railway camp, while the men of the party had to put up for the night in the railway cars. A temporary railway bridge across the Waipoa river, on the line to Napier, in course of construction, has been carried away to-night.
The. rain continues steadily, and at Motii 7 inches fell in twenty-four hours, while in Gisborrie over 3 inches has fallen in two days.
The Turanganui river, on which the port is built, is running high, and all vessels have been double moored. A crisis is expected in the harbour when , the tide comes in about midnight. Two launches moored in the harbour were swept out to sea to-night.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11936, 25 March 1914, Page 5
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173FLOODS ROUND GISBORNE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11936, 25 March 1914, Page 5
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