NARROW ESCAPES
MANY HOMES EVACUATED Taumarunui, Wednesday. Owing to the impossibility of getting cars along the road to Matapuna, at three o'clock this morning the Railway Department ran an engine and carriage with reseuers to Matapuna, resulting in the removal of two aged couples from water-logged homes. At least 100 people were assisted from the flood areas during the various rescue operations, and about 200 homes were evacuated. At Manunui a man living in a hut had an unenviable experience, having his whare washed away, but it was stopped by a tree. He was reseued after a four hours' wait.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 488, 23 March 1933, Page 5
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