FLOODS RECEDING
TRAINS STILL BLOCKED DAMAGE TO BRIDGES HEAVY ROAD SLIPS (Per Press Association.) NELSON, this day. Heavy flooding blocked all highways for 24 hours prior to midday to-day when the waters had receded sufficiently to allow some services, including Blenheim to resume. Train services were dislocated today owing to a washout of 150yds at Brightwater. A relief train is working in an effort to resume the schedules to-morrow, but extreme difficulty is being experienced with the Waimca River which is still in heavy flood. Two spans of the Dart bridge at Wangapeka have been washed away. The Riwaka River overflowed, inundating wide areas on. the Waimea Plain and Golden Bay. Heavy slips are reported on the Takaka hill. A full investigation is not possible.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20110, 2 December 1939, Page 7
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125FLOODS RECEDING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20110, 2 December 1939, Page 7
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