The Floods in Auckland
» | PER PllEsS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland. August 8. The Waikato down trains are now able to reach Huntly. The Waikilo is in hiuh flood, and the only way of i^ettinp from Aucklnnd through to Waikato is by steamer from Mercer to Muntiy. The trnffic by road and rail is entirely suspended in some parts of the lower Wnikato. and much damage has been done by the flood. Many families are flooded out, the river overflow mit its batiks in vnrious parts. The country near Mercer and Huntly is inundated for miles. The mines at Huntly «re stopped for wnnt of trucks. The natives at Mercer have deserted their whares and gone back to the hills. The continued rains are becoming serious to thejfarmers of the country. Paddocks between Auckland and Wnikato are cut up by the cattle as if they hod been lately ploughed. Very little of the crops now in the ground arc expected to be saved, and those who have not ploughed and >otvn will be unable to do so for many dnys Sheep and cattle are lying dead in ponds nml fwamps along the railway lines betweon Cambridge and Mercer.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 34, 9 August 1893, Page 3
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195The Floods in Auckland Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 34, 9 August 1893, Page 3
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