PASSENGERS MAROONED
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«fly Telegraph—
EOTOEUA, Last Night. As a regult of nearly six inches of rain from Thursday to gunday, a number of roads iu the Rotorua district were blocked. Qn Suuday 11 s.Hps came down on the main Rotorua-Whakatane-Gisborne highway between Rotoma hiH and Rotorua making it impaisable for traffic, A service car containixig njne passeur was trapped between two large slips ou the summit of the hilj and the passengere and driver wero compell^d to ipeod an uncomfortable night on thg. road. Search parties from both ends eucceeded in reaching thein in the mor* ning and by late this afternoon it was repoi'ted that the road was again opeQ for traffic. The Rotorua-Tauranga route was closed by flooding but cars are proeeeding by an alternative road.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 7
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137PASSENGERS MAROONED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 7
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