DANNEVIRKE RAIN.
Cloudburst Causes Flood Near Town.
Press Association—Copyright. Dannevirke, Last Night
Heavy raim for three days culminated ‘in a cloudburst on the Glengarry block at the back of Dannevirke township about three o’clock yesterday afternoon following a thunderstorm. The rain was phenomenally heavy and in a short timo water was pouring over the countryside and down the hill slopes in the direction of Laws Road on the south side of the town. That water rushed down that main highway and across all the flat country between the road and the Dannevirke golf links. The main road
was soon under water and motor traffic was impeded for some time. Tho water then ran down the railway line and through a cutting near the golf links to the northern approach to the railway bridge over the Tamaki River, where it scoured out a section under the bridge approach,* letting down a block of concrete and rendering the line impassable for through traffic.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 336, 18 January 1937, Page 6
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161DANNEVIRKE RAIN. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 336, 18 January 1937, Page 6
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