The Flood.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 381, 3 July 1889, Page 2

The Flood.

This hoary downpour of vain on Friday and Saturday occasioned the Waihoij river, and the creeks in this district, to rise to a great height. In ?e Aroha no dnmngo of any consequence was done. Mr 'Coult hard's flaxmill whs surrounded with water. The bridge on the Cemetery road ,waa shifted' by the floqd, but wag restored to its old position on Monday. At Waiorpngomai a number of heavy slips occurred on the new water-race extension of the Te Aroha S. and 0. M. Co. : Two culverts were washed away on the Lower Hill Track, and a number of slips occurred on the s»m,e track, slips also occurren on IVJr Yon Stunner's water-race at Gordon Special SettlementOne of the plank; crossings on the Paeroa — Te Aro.ha Road, the Te Aroha sideoP The Willows, wag displaced by tlie flood on Saturday 'afternoon, preventing Messrs Bradley and Oo.'s mail- coach fiom getting- past this point, and the' passengers had to get out and cross as best they could and walk on to Te Aroha, th,e horses witft mails being made to swim across. Tbis bridge was repaired on Sunday. At Paeroa the flood was so ■ great that the river rose to the enormous extent of more than twenty feet aboye or liiury level. The Paeros Wharf was completely carried away Saturday afternoon, and the Ohinemuri Wharf at Frasers township was greatly d.xmaged. Several slips occurred ontheOwharoaroad The Public School was closod on Monday, owing to the non-arrival of som? of the^ teachers from Thames, after the holidays. The floods rapidly went dowif eg.u'n, but the rivers and creeks ara all stil} very high.