Pirongia.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 295, 1 February 1907, Page 2

Pirongia.

(from our own correspondent.) For the past fortnight the weather bad been very threatening, and on the 11 th it started and continued unceasingly until the 15th, when it cleared off about mid day. The result was a biggest fiuod in the Waipa than has ever before been ri c rded. The old Waipa bridge has been washed away from ooe end, and has swung over on to ths far side of the river, being held by one cable only, the settlers on the mountain being cut off from the township. This is a serious thing (or the settlers as there were five or six supplying the factory, and the milk had to be wasted. The effect will be more seriously felt when provisions run short. The farmers have suffered serious damage, ail the oats aud hay that had been cut being completely ruined—stooks of oats looking like heaps of black soil. Bo far there has been no account of losses of stock. Thero is one good thing the flood will do, drown some thousands of rabbits.