MORE HEAVY RAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1921, Page 4

MORE HEAVY RAIN.

RIVERS START TO RISE AGAIN, DAMAGE TO PREMISES. Heavy rain fell in New Plymouth again last night, but no further damage caused by the flood waters was reported, though the rivers had commenced to rise again. The abnormal heights reached by the Huatokl and Mangotuku streams through Wednesday's heavy rainfall resulted in the flood waters gaining access to several business premises. A cellar in the motor department of Messrs. Newton King, Ltd., was flooded, pumps being unable to cope with the rising waters. The contents of the/cellar were several thousand cases of .benzine. On one side of Brougham Street a cellar used for storing groceries, a benzine store, and a stable were flooded with three of four feet of water. A horse had to be freed from the stable. Higher up the stream the cellar of a butchery was inundated, and two tons! of salt ruined. The worst flooding of all took place at the brewery, situated on the bend of the atream just after it flows under Queen Street. The floors of the buildings were nearly three feet under water. It is estimated that the water rose eight or nine feet above normal at this point. Several tons of z coal stacked in the yard were washed away, and the same fate befell about! 50 empty beer barrels which were standing on a staging running across the stream. It is understood that several full barrels were washed out of 'one of the buildings, and they have not been recovered, although a good many of the empty ones were stranded, lower dowp the stream.