FLOODS IN GISBORNE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 80, 25 March 1914, Page 2

FLOODS IN GISBORNE.

SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN.

{Pan Press Abbooutioh.] Gisborne, March 24

It has bethr raining steadily during the past three days, and all nyers and creeks in the district are badly swollen.

Owing fb A' washout on th'e railway; to-day’s train for the north coujd not progress beyond Otoko, a small country centre, and the lady' passengers bad to be accommodated' in the rad* way camp, while the men of the party had to accommodate themselves in the railway 'curs.". A temporary railway ■bridge across.the Waipoa river, on the line to Napier, in the’ course of constniction, was earned away. To-night the rain continues stead--11 yy and at Motu seven inches,, haye fallen in 24 hours, while in Gisborne orer three inches have fallen in two days. Tli©" Turan'ganui river, on which thVmort is bui.lt, i« running high, and - all'vessels “have been doublemoored. A : crisis is expected in the harbor, when 7 'the tide,comes in about midnight. • Two launches moored in the liarbor w»r© swept out to sea to-night.