FLOODS IN THE NORTH.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8741, 15 February 1907, Page 2

FLOODS IN THE NORTH.

A Town Under Water. Per Press Association. WriAXfiAREi, February 14. A heavy continuous downpour in this district lias caused floods greater in volume than those of a month ago. At Waivua creek crossing, the mail coach was swept away, the horses attached being drowned and the driver having a narrow escape. Pailway traffic is impeded and telegraphic communication delayed, while the lower part of the town was, for a time, flooded. Much damage has been done at Waipiq the floods being the largest on record, a part of the township lying twelve feet under water. Numbers of cattle and sheep have been drowned, potato crops coni pletely ruined, and, owing to the bursting of booms, a large quantity of kauri timber has been washed out to sea

The rain has ,now abated, but the outlook is still threatening.

Auckland, February 14

Further floods are reported from the country districts. At the Mauugaturoto dairy factory a boy, named George Knight, fell into a Hooded creek f! is morning, and has not since been li'ea'rd of. lias evidently been drowned.