SEVERE GALE AND FLOODS IN NORTH CANTERBURY.—HUNDREDS OF ACRES UNDER WATER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4, 24 July 1912, Page 25

SEVERE GALE AND FLOODS IN NORTH CANTERBURY.— HUNDREDS OF ACRES UNDER WATER.

! ' '••'‘•re fl" ”1' in 1 iiiilri bury. a l< .-i| paper s.iy< * The drain road ami line side road at I’hixton wen* not safe for Iratlle. All the eoiintry was a perfi e| sea. and nllhoiigh Hie outfall into the Walmnka riri was fairl.v good and that • i ,i t lx a ip •! bridge went down Hire feet .ii I. w tide. i' will be '.<nne days before the Hoods gel "If some hundreds of aeres of arable land. . Al Waverley there was over three feel of water on the road.” Hi A view showing tile Hoods from the 1 ' ! ' ' 'i'ik in I lie dam where all i lie wal whi*h Hooded the eoiintry i line through. Had this md broken Kalapoi would have suffered severely. (3) The washout on the line al Waverley w here mil* - of waler lay on both sides of the railway. I Ii Hundreds of aeres under water at Eyreton.