RIVERS FALLING RAPIDLY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 2, 21 May 1914, Page 2

RIVERS FALLING RAPIDLY.

IUiAWiUN® KKPOBOB FIiQM THE BAtST OO&JT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wairoa, Yesterday. The weather is now clearing and the rivurs have Lpea failing slowly sinco Sunday. Ujj the Waikaremoana Koad the Wairoa roeo twenty feet, but the bridges on ithe route are safe. The Moliaka bridge, waach ig a, vaiuablo one, stood the great strain. The river fell eight f«jet lost night. In bho Nuiiaka and Morere diatriata little or no damage was done. Napier, Yesterday. All the rivers in Hawfce's Bay arc rapidly subsiding' and no umtorial damage is reported, other than that at Wairoa, A CONTRACTOR KILLLED. Gisborno, Tuesday. On Monday nighit the flood ranched within a few yards of the Mokoroa Hotel, where a number of families had take refuge. At Nelson's freezing works the water rose within 12 inches of the 1910 record. The stokehole was knee deep in waiter. A heavy slip on the railway works at Ngatapa covered a tent occupied by Samuel Dollinan, a contractor, who.; i dead body was recovered frotau tlie debris. iSisfcorne, Wednesday. The weather has now cleft rj:V nii.l I IkHood waters have subsided. The total rainfall in Gisborne since Saturday was 3.03 inches, and for the month 12.03 inches. Railway traffic is still suspended