CROPS SUFFER AT MOTUEKA
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Takaka Isolated
(By Telegraph-
• ' | NELSON, Last Night. Incessanc rain during the past two days has resnlted in heavy flooding of rivers in the Golden Bay district. .Takaka township became isolated yesterday afternoon when flood waters made road traffic impossible^ Similar, conditions continued this morning and! there were no.bread or meat deliveries! outside the township to-day. In a dip in the Toad at Waitapu,, be- . tween the Globe Hotel and the Takaka v Tiver bridge, .there was about 12 f eet oft '■ water this morning, while five feet ofj" water flowed across the main streetp near ' the private hospital. Severalf" houses ncar the dairy factory .weref evacuated. The rainfall in the 48 hours up to 2/ a.m. to-day was 5.75 inches. Later W the morning the rain ceased and the'to are indications.,that the flood waters are recedin'c. . , . , [
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 37, 27 February 1937, Page 10
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