THE WEST COAST FLOODS.
By Telegraph—Press Association. REEFTON, January 17. Further accounts are coming in from the back country of the damage done by the storm inland. It is feared that great damage has been done on the Maruia road, where washouts and slips took place. Unfortunately, too, certain provisions urgently wanted for the men at work higher up the valley of the Inangahua had first to be taken over one slip to another cart, then that cart, before two miles was passed, was compelled to transfer the goods to pack horses. It is not known whether they got through; it is feared not. Further inspection shows that the work of rendering safe the northern bank of the river at Rosstown will be very expensive, but must be undertaken at once. Every fresh does more damage still, and the bank is washing away fast.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3094, 18 January 1909, Page 5
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144THE WEST COAST FLOODS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3094, 18 January 1909, Page 5
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