PHENOMENAL RAINFALL
Unemployed Camp Flooded
FAMILIES EVACUATE HUTS ACCOMMODATED IN HALL (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, This Day. When the Tauhei Stream overflowed its banks to-day as the result of heavy rain, the rising waters inundated a married relief workers’ camp at Orini. Over 20 families hurriedly grasped their belongings from the huts and are being accommodated in the Orini public hall. Many of them have left to live with relatives in Hamilton. The whole camp area is badly flooded. Tauhei and Tehue relief camps are also inundated. Rail Traffic Suspended ON THE LINE TO THAMES ROAD TRANSPORT ALSO (Per Press Association.) THAMES, This Day. Through rail traffic to Thames was suspended to-day owing to floods at Waitoki, between Paeroa and Te Aroha, ;no train arriving from Frankton with the southern mails, while passenger and road traffic was also stopped.. Trains between Thames and Paeroa were not affected. No details of the damage, if any, will be available till the flood water •subsides and an inspection has been made.
Fish consignments in the meantime are being despatched by the railway officials to Pokino by motor to connect with southern trains.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXIX, Issue 149, 21 June 1934, Page 5
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