DROUGHT BREAKS
gisborne rains RIVERS RISING RAPIDLY CAUSE FEARS OF - FLOOD ' COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION Gisborne, Friday. ' After nine weeks without rain, the drought in Poverty Bay district was broken on Wednesday, and no-w- the countryside has undergone a complete transf ormation. For weeks part, pastures and city lawns have been parched, being reminiscent of early summer. Early this week th'e borough council issued •instructions prohibiting the use of hoses in gardens. Now the position is eompletely changed. There is every indication of fiooding, the Waimata River in the back Stretches having risen 20 feet, the same level of the disastrou's floods of last year. The Waipoa River is six to seven feet above normal. Anxious settlers are moving stock to higher levels. Heavy. rain fell continuously and there was no indication of cessation at midnight.- The north and south roads are passable, service' car drivers reporting no difficulty in getting through.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 542, 27 May 1933, Page 5
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150DROUGHT BREAKS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 542, 27 May 1933, Page 5
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