FLOOD DAMAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1925, Page 1

FLOOD DAMAGE.

Miv Titi.tiott.u’u — rt'.it rnr.ss association.] HI'Id.KH HOAD DA MAC KD . RKKKTON. Sept. -_M. Cominunieat ion with West pm t was established to-day. Newman’s service ,-ar which left Westport at I a.m. and arrived at Reel Ton at 7 a. lll. reports that, t.he roads are much damaged Mangatnra bridge. seven miles beyond Murchison, was washed away. Cars tryine to reach Nelson. It'll lteefloii at I a.in. |. KHRV STKAMKR ASIIoIIK . WKI.I.IXCTON. Sept. :M. During the heavy westerly gale. the Kasl hoiirne Borough C'ouneirs liarhour ferrv steamer, Cohar, was blown ashore at Rona Hay. She ivas retloated this morning undamaged. IN CAXTKI! Bl'l! Y. CT I I’lS'l'ClTt RCII. Sept. HI. The line weather lor the week past has boon most beneficial to the rural ■ j reus \s soon as the ground was dry enough (O be workable, many fanners out btisv with wheat sowings and a p,roe area has I sown during me past few davs. 'I lie rain on I uesday .debt- did not do much harm and in soiuO r:iM‘s, il \v;i» as it pretented the ground frotn getting solid. Willi another foituight ol line weather the wheat harvest prospects I'm- a large part, ol ('nnierbury would heroine much more favourable than they were a week ago. The ground ha-; received a thorough saturation and spring crops would flourish with, ordinary rainfalls in the late autumn and slimmer.