HUTT RIVER FLOODED.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3988, 22 July 1915, Page 7

HUTT RIVER FLOODED.

I A ) WER H UTT^BRIIXIE S WEPT AWAY.

ONE MAN DROWNED

RIVER STILL RISING

(Press Association Telegram.) • WELLINGTON, July 21. i Since yesterday, the Mutt Itivci hus, as a result of the continued heavy rains, risen a further four feet, making the height over 11 L’eet- above summer level at the gorge. At the 'Lower Hutt the bridge has been washed. away and the river is still rising 1:1 To-id a v the whole of the Huff Valiev presents a unique spectacle, the lam abutting the river being transf oi nn.d into a veritable lake area. In the low-lviim parts of the country there is scarcely a paddock that is not under wder, this being especia ly the case in the upper reaches above' Filve - stream, where practically the whole of the low country is under v ate • At some points houses are comp etelj are completely submerged, niakin„ entry by the usual way impossible, while it\s not an unusual sight to sec cattle grazing on small areas of land surrounded by watm . . i Up to tlie present no damage m a ■ j consequence as regards the nvm ! banks 1 and protective works has bcoi i renorted. One tragic incident, hou ; C v ver lias occurred. A middle-age' S man’ named Christopher Nodson wis i attempting to ford a stream ALuiigaroa with a horse and ft shortly after 8 o’clock this ingrn ng, i when ho was overpowered by the tui ! lint waters and swept down the : river. Neilson was a farmer at i A migaroa.. He was about forty yeais i ,Vf ~£ e and a native of Denmark. | Tlie stream which Neilson attemptec .to cross is a small tributary ol the 1 'Munaaroa River and. in normal turns, ! is only a few inches deep. | A ,lip near Mungaroa delayed the : AYairarapa train for nearly tlnce hours. Shipping movements have ! been upset, so tar as the smallei j vessels are concerned.