HEAVY RAIN IN TARANAKI.
y Telegraph — Press Association | NL\V PlYMOL'TH, August 13. j lloads and the railway "iu Lastern 1 Taranaki were blocked today as a ro-' suli of the heavy rain which fell iu Fentral Taranaki and the easteni dis-| tricts last night. The Stratford Maia Trunk railway line was blocked by a . slip near a tunnel just eusi of Tahora/ 30 miles from (Stratford. Tlie last trains. to get tlirough before tlie slip came down were the New Piymouth to Auck- ! land express, aud a goods iraia which! reaclied ytratford at 2 a.m. The next i goods traiii, which icft .Stratford at (5 [ a.m., was held at Whangamomona. At ! 10. 3U a.m. a special train left .Strat ford | and picked up a maintenance staif en route to clear the track. |
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 August 1946, Page 7
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