TORRENTIAL RAINS
RECORD AT WAIHI ROAD TRAFFIC SUFFERS (From Our Oxen Correspondent.) WAIHI TO-DAY Rain commenced to fall steadily • -sterday and it continued doing so
throughout the day and night, increasing in severity about three o’clock this morning. Mr. W. C. Morris, local weather observer, reports that for the 24 hours ending 8 a.m. to-day, the rainfall was 8.6 inches.
Despite this heavy downpour no damage was done beyond that at the gas works, which were flooded. It is not yet possible to ascertain the actual amount of damage, but it is not cipated to be as great as at first feared. Unconfirmed reports from Aongatete state that the floods there were severe, one bridge being washed away and several houses flooded. Motorists on the Waihi-Paeroa road were held up and passengers on buses were transhipped.
The Ohinemuri River rose to within a few feet of the bridge and overflowed its banks, inundating a big area of land. The sun is now shining and it looks as if the weather will take up.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19270726.2.70.4
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 106, 26 July 1927, Page 9
Word Count
173TORRENTIAL RAINS Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 106, 26 July 1927, Page 9
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in