RAILWAY WASHOUT
RAIN ON WEST COAST
(By Telegraph!— Press Association;) M GREYMOUTH, January 25. , North-westerly , rain extended along the-West Coast today, an - inch and a quarter falling here in ten hours. Sev; eral streams were flooded. « ■' ■'■ A wash-but on: the Midland railway this side of Botomarm delayed the overland 'express with 180 'passengers for ■nearly .rive hours. The lino,, was left suspended for-a distance of a chain, tho passengers .walking on planking. Later,trains, tonight,' however, are running. . •. ■ . ~ . ".■-■■•■" . .-!'■■'"" On the coast rpad'a series of slips occurred four miles south' of Charleston. Both Westport and Inangahua report considerable rainfall'today.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 9
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97RAILWAY WASHOUT Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1934, Page 9
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