DISTRICT NEWS.
j. TONGAPORUTU. * (From Our Own Correspondent.) Re my notes in your Wednesday's sue. Heavy rain had set in before tljf horses reached the bad mud hole on Mount Messenger, and after pulling this car out of the mud it was found that the road was too slippery for the cap to proceed. The doctor, with the yotug fellows who were with him, had to pS in the night in a roadman's oamp. Ny team of horses was kept up there, » «ase the car should again get into diffi- ' culties in going down the other aide tff, the mountain. On Monday morning ropes and chains were wound round the wheels to prevent skidding, and shortly , after daylight a start was made for N& uih Plymouth, the oar reaching there about' '/ ■ 9 a.m. on Monday. * Although heavy rain set in on Mount • Messenger early on Sunday evening, no rain fell in the valley until Monday night. All day Tuesday it poured down,' and our river to-day is in flood, the highest for two years. This has thoroughly scoured out the sand at the entrance, which is better now for vessels coming in.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 242, 12 April 1912, Page 5
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192DISTRICT NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 242, 12 April 1912, Page 5
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