HEAVY RAIN IN POVERTY BAY
■ ■ . ELAT COUNTRY • INUNDATED, By Telegraph-Press Association. • cisborne, March' 6. Very/ heavy rain inland caused.thei food waters to rise steadily last night and the greater, part of the areas • of ■flats in the country is inundated. This morning the ; flood is subsiding. HAWKE'S BAY RIVERS VERY HIGH. . ' Napier, March G. Only showers fell.locally during thei pight, but the rivers . remain ' very [high. The Ngaruroro is still overflowing, and tho Wairna is inundating a plarge extent of country. ." I No stock losses have been reported. Workmen managed to prevent a further overflow of the Tutaekuri at Mceanee.-' All the roads to Ha'stihgs aro impassable except via Fernhill. . s The sea had moderated considerably, & facilitating the outflow of the. river |flood. ' •
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19180307.2.45
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
123HEAVY RAIN IN POVERTY BAY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 144, 7 March 1918, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in