IN THE CRIP OF WINTER.
FLOODS IN BRITAIN. STREETS UNDER WATER. RUGBY, Thursday. i The flood situation to-day is better in some areas, find worse in others. Dartford, in Kent, is qne of the new areas badly affected. The River Darentli suddenly burst its bank during the night, and to-day there were four feet of water in some of Dartford’s streets. -Some 200 houses are flooded, and their occupants are living in bedroom s'. The Thames continues to rise, and in places where it lias overflowed the banks it is six or seven times its normal width. At Clapton, in East many houses arc marooned as a result of the overflowing of the river Lea, a tributary of the Thames.-—British Official Wireless.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 6 January 1928, Page 5
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