HEAVY RAIN

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 January 1932, Page 5

HEAVY RAIN

IN POVERTY PAY. GISBORNE, Monday. Welcome rains at the week-end have given relief to farmers. The showers were patchy, ranging from .59 inches at Gisborne to 7.09 inches at MatahisWßain fell heavily at Kuatoria parts of the dry belt, where the draught conditions were worse than at Gisborne. This is the first substantial rain the district lias experienced for four months. —(P.A.) HAWKE’S BAY BENEFITS. Heavy rain which commenced to fall throughout the whole of Hawke’s Bay on Friday night continued periodically over the week-end and has been received enthusiastically by farmers, its occurrence marking the end of a long period in which little wet weather had been experienced and which if it had continued much longer, would have badly affected pastures to a very considerable extent. Hill sides and other land had become very burnt but as a result of the recent refreshing rains, new and fresh growth has already begun to make its appfl^rance. TINUI DOWNPOUR. COUNTRY DRENCHED. the week-end a large portion of district experienced splendid rain, in some parts as much as 21 inches being registered. A CLOUD BURST. TWENTY INCHES OF RAIN. (Received Tuesday, 9.45 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Twenty inches of rain was registered at Babinda in 48 hours, the cause being a cyclone over the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The St. Johnstone River, which is in high flood, broke its banks, flooding the edffcitryside. Some sugar farms are thirty feet under water and a number of houses are also submerged, and business sections are threatened. The river rose ten feet in five hours. All traffic in the district is suspended. Many people left their homes rather than spend the night in terror.