SOME EXCITING EXPERIENCES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 20 April 1914, Page 2

SOME EXCITING EXPERIENCES.

FLOODS IS TUB VVAIWAKAUIO. Tho heavy miu on Tuesday night caused a number of the mountain rivers to rise r;i|iiilly anil hc-conm raffing torrents. Numerous 'mostly pri-va-tely-owned, were swept away, and logs were shifted from places along the hanks where thev had lain in security for years. Some narrow wsijitw from accidents have to he ivcorded, huL tort 11nately io one was injured. A gang of men working at Hie Horoiifi'h Council's intake had an exciting experience. .Messrs. Thomnson, Tiiinev und Oeorp'e were camped close to the banks of the l.icain, when that, stream silently lmb Kleadily rose; higher and higher. The won wvve awakened by tin; barking (if tho camp dog, and I'onnd.' that the water was ruuuiiu> . through their camp. To iraMi terra finiiii they had to wade through water j up to their waists. They 10-t smre took ami personal The work at the intake suH'ered no damage. Mr. Maealirdor, postmaster al Manhad a much mure limbing experience. lie is employed at the tforoi factory, and for lire pa? I two or Ihree years has slept in a lent >ihi:tfed in it pretty pieee of bush elo-. 1 !o t'iie banks of the Waiwakalho and apparently it: a secure po-ifi'm. (In Tuesday about, II oVloek. he v.,,.-; awaken'd by ! what lu 1 thought wa- tVu:d"i\ bu: wliii-h he jil'ferwartl.-. as.eriaim d (o hi- li.e roar of the torrential volume of weio* in the W'aikakaiho. for bin- li*»e W\n« I raiKformi d into a h;i-c r'-wv. Tl«I- had over Mowed its i >anl;s. <•; r>';, in;:- t -mber | and deM ruction before it. A limy pounding a, Irct- mar tin- imit no doubt lielpeil to wake the o' ' At any rale, Mr. Me.Misfrr ioini.' : liai idif water was -willing round hi- he..l. lie hurriedly mad'- his evit, but to depression-' in the true!:. the water al limes eanie up to bis neck, and lie had (rouble to iu:ike headv.ay ajrair!."! if:, on one oeeaMon alimM bavin;;' to swim. J however, after a iX sonic minutes, !lie reaehed l;.v factory and safety. Some idea of the volume. of \v;tler may be gained from Ihe laet. iiiat the Kwiw* bridge was lifted out' of position and the water spread as far as t'he main road. The Company had u mikill bridge lifted from its tail race and carried ,some distance, inland. Mr. McAiister lost a lot of his personal ellVeta, iiHudin a Mini of money. The Hood was e.-dimaled to have been I t!m highest in (lie la-;! !eii years. The \v ' •- a-. ranidjy an they had rI-1 ii. :i iid h\ luiornin.tr. tJiouyli they r-e ni' cui'r-e i!, i! <•! i 'i i" !;' 1 > ■ {b;'n llsliai, !ia'"l lu realise the dangers •!' ' lie ni'.'lif. had existed,