FLOOD HAVOC
DAMAGE IN THE POHANGINA VALLEY. MAIN ROAD THREATENED. (By Telegraph—Press Association). PALMERSTON NORTH, April 22. Following upon the cloudburst which created havoc in the Pohangina Valley last weekend, when over a million cubic feet of soil was washed down the Te Awa Stream toward Colyton and deposited on land lower down, damaging concrete bridges and culverts en route, another similar visitation was experienced yesterday, when the Pohangina township was inundated by the severest flood known for sixty years. The valley behind the township disgorged a newly-made river on to roads and across acres of pasture land, leaving deposits of silt over a wide area. Fortunately the waters took a course which did not endanger human life, sweeping beside, but not against houses. One main road through the valley is seriously threatened. Logs up to forty feet long were scoured out by both floods from land around the township and piled against a culvert under the highway. Workmen have been engaged since the weekend clearing debris over miles of the road toward Apiti and Colyton and their task is now increased. The damage is estimated by the County Engineer conservatively at £2OOO.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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193FLOOD HAVOC Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1938, Page 7
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