DAMAGE BY FLOODS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1920, Page 4

DAMAGE BY FLOODS.

NORTH AUCKLAND SUFFERS. BRIDGES DESTROYED; STOCK KILLED. JBy Telegraph,—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night, Full details arc not yet available regarding the North Auckland Hoods, and it in still impossible to animate the damage. The Herald's Paparoa correspondent, telegraphing to-night, says widespread damage was done to the Otaniatea county roads and bridges, and heavy loss has been suffered by farmers, who have had their fences carried away by slips and their stock killed. At the Waipu Gorge all the original wooden bridges, numbering twenty or twenty-five, were carried away, only the new concrete bridges remaining. , Conflicting accounts have tome to hand regarding a motor accident in the Gorge. It is now stated a narty which was overtaken by the flood moored thoir car to a tree and. were rescued from the top of the car. A special meeting of the Otamatea Council will be held to-morrow to consider urgent works to afford temporary access to isolated settlers. Vehicular traiiic cannot get through to the back districts, and this renders the carting of food supplies at present impossible. Government aid is urgently necessary, as local bodies' resources cannot cope with the expenditure required to repair the damage, the cost of which will run into thousands of pounds.