Local & General
Floods Recede. The fiood waters iri the Kara, Stream, one mile north of Shannon, are 'now receding rapidly and >/ It- was expected that the main roacf Would he free of water today. + Car Skads Over Bank. ' What could have been a senous aheident narrowly averted, yeste.rday mprning when a car pro4 ceeding th " 'Sh'annpn from Palmers- j ton North skidde£ and w.ent over . the bank' the front- wheels comingto rest in Ka'ra^. Stream. The vehicle was later towed on to the road and proceeded on its/ way. Had -this occurr'ed the day before, when- the stream w.as in -full flood, most of the car would have. been under water.. . • -
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 August 1949, Page 3
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111Local & General Chronicle (Levin), 12 August 1949, Page 3
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