HEAVY RAINFALL IN AUCKLAND.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11485, 19 January 1903, Page 5

HEAVY RAINFALL IN AUCKLAND.

MUCH DAMAGE DONE,

(FRES9 ASSOCIATION' TELEGBAiC.)

AUCKLAiND, Jarauary 18.

Heavy rain) wiiou fell from 5.30 to 6.30 o'clock thai morning, produced quite a flood, exceeding anything known in this city diurdng recent years. At tie 'Museum the rainfall was registered at 1.84 inches for 24 hcura irp to 9.30 o'clock this morning, but as very litile rain fell yesterday nearly the whole of this amount must have fallen during the short epace this morning The suddenness of the downpour and 'te intensity was equalled by the rapidity wifch. which the weather cleared. The street drains were quite unequal to the task cf carrying off the water, and the pressure higher uip the, stoeet caused an outflow of water from the drains on the lower levels. The iron coverings of two large manhoks near Shortland and Fort streets were forced off, and a jet of waiter was.sent up from each to a height of 2ft 6in. The water, which spread over the footpatae as high np as Wyndbom street, peered through the grat:»gs and Kil&d the cellars of half tie establiehmaite ia Lower Qoeen street, spoiling several thousand pounds' worth of goods'. About 6.30 o'clock the rain ceased, and tnrenty minutes later the Queen street footpath* were passable again. •