BIG FLOODS
Australian Press Assn.—United Sorviee SYDNEY, Fob. 14. Tho Hoods on the North Coast are abating rapidly. William Corrigan was drowned while attempting t.o swim a swollen creek near Casico. • ' Serious stock losses occurred on \\ dson and Maria Fivers, and Lower Hastings. Horses, still alive, wore observed fighting desperately as they were swept out to sea. Gravel Island pleasure resort, in the Hastings has almost disappeared, and ifce railway >WjYices on the Northern line is dislocated. \s a result of a cloud hurst near Tam worth, ten inches of rain fell m less than half-nn-honr. A huge wall ol water, many feet deep and a-half mile wide, swept down on the township ol Duri.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 5
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115BIG FLOODS Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 5
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