SEVERE STORM IN WELLINGTON.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10175, 27 February 1911, Page 5

SEVERE STORM IN WELLINGTON.

CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE DONE

THE STREETS FLOODED

' By Telegraph- r r?M Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. The heavy rain . which-set in on Friday night . continued practically without a break all day on Saturday, ! and culminated in an unusually heavy and sustained downpour at | night, .accompanied by a driving southerly gale. The accumulations of storm water were unable to find a sufficient outlet, and caused a good deal of damage in various parts of the city. In Kent Terrace itlie large sewage ! drain 'running along under the [roadway was inadequate to meet the sudden tax upon its capacity, and a considerable patch of wood blocking was lifted. ■ The. cellars of some business premises in the low-lying area along the ; Quay were flooded! Streets on the hillsides were also badly scoured in, many places by the rushing torrents of storm water. Portions of the Hutt railway line were under water this morning, and traffic on the Manawartu line was temporarily interrupted. At; eleven o'clock last night portions! of Lambton Quay were like a river, the water running right across in orie lake-like sheet, covering the footpath 'and all. This morning in places,|tner©v were four and five inches of;'|il&7 ;; :- . ~■' ••■•'' ' iAAfSarori a big washout interrupted tram "traffic, and will entail a week's work repair. Fortunately there is one ear on thG otner side of the break, so that suburbanites will not be entirely isolated. At Island Bay "there was four feet of waiter on portions of the flat. : ' ■■■;.... Last night, in "Victoria Street, the novel sight might" of men wading across the thoroughfare'' witJi their boots "slung over their, should- • ers, ;fche water being "almost knee deep in places. Altogether the was one. of the worst recorded here,V and the ■City Council wid be>put to heavy expense in repairing the damage to thie streets. ."":"■ V . At. a auarter to four this roorh-.►ittg^the-giile stopped for a tew min\.was,Wify;../ .'.■'-•' '.'•-■■■ '. ~•■ V [■ v blew again as hard v Bo 'fa'f no damage is reported 1 as a resultfi of the earthquake^ The ilararoa's departure for Lyt•teltbn was ddayed'tilt nve this morning, owing to the gale. - '. ■'' The Maori arrived about eight o'clock from , Lyttelton, having had heavy weather and continuous rain ail the way up.