SECOND SEVERE FLOOD

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 62, 18 March 1935, Page 5

SECOND SEVERE FLOOD

New Plymouth Suffers Again DAIRY FACTORY IN UNDATED DAMAGE DONE TO ROADS (Per Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, This Day. Heavy drenching r;tin, in some districts almost as heavy as that which caused lie severe damage last month, fell throughout last night. Rivers rose rapidly, and seriqps flooding has recurred in the Okato district. The Oxford Road Dairy Factory has been inundated, and the Mangatete River has again brolLn its banks, causing considerable damage and obliterating the protective work done by voluntary labour, scouring the filling from tlb3 old wash-outs and leaving the factory again in a serious condition.

The rivers along the coast between New Plymouth and Opunake rose very rapidly. At Okato the Manatete stream, rising very rapidly, swept away the temporary barricade and resumed the new course that it had made for itself Iflst month. The flood waters quickly tore their way across Saunders Road, sweeping aside the road that had been made by the Taranaki County Council over the gap made by the flood waters of three weeks ago. Where that roadway was there is now a raging torrent, about a chain wide and several feet deep, effectually blocking the road. Suppliers of the Oxford Dairy Coy. have twice in three weeks not only suffered very considerable damage to the 5 r factory, but have also been deprived of its use. The flood waters swept through the factory, the torrent raging through the. boiler-house, at its height practically covering the boiler. The flood also swept through the assistant’s house, which it was deemed advisable to abandon.