WEST COAST FLOODS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 325, 18 January 1909, Page 2

WEST COAST FLOODS.

TJIK IMMAOB AT REEFTOX. By Telegraph—Press Asuueiatioj. Roeftou, Saturday. It is feared that great damage "has hcon done on the .Marum road. Provision* are urgently wanted for men at work high up the' valley of the fnangnliUii. Those had lo lie eart"d DVer slips from eart to eart, then packed Lin horses, and it is not known whether they got through, and it is feared not. Further insertions shows that, the work of rendering the northern bank ot the river safe at Uosstown will he very expensive. I„it mnst be undertaken at onee, as ~very fresh does more damage slill. and the bank is wa»hhV nway fast. ' . Keefton, Last Sight. | J lie damage done by the Jlo'od is "ostly i., the Inaugahua valley, from Lie.eflou to n point twelve miles up he Marina liuad. The damage to eouutv ivorks alone is estimated at fJ,(IOU. At one plaee a portion of a bridge wit* ■died up and left high and drv. Other nidges have been w<„ln,| elean awav, .'here being no tnues „f pi,,-, (11 . u j,. iroaehes, ' II is estimated that it will en.l CiflO :i« repair the damage at i . n ilone.

IiKA.YITV FLOODED. , Weslporl. Saturday. A iKirtiun »t ill,. t„niK|,m ,„• (Jrauitv" was Hooded. Wat,,- was i„ smile houses ■to u depth „f mm. i||i.),|. Si