HAWKE’S BAY FLOODS
BRIDGES WASHED AWAY ESKDALE SUFFERS SEVERELY. WATER INVADES TOWNSHIP OF CLIVE. NAPIER, April 26. Napier is completely isolated by floods. Every bridge in Eskdale has been washed away. Conditions there are worse than anything previously remembered by the oldest settler. The Wairoa road will not be passable for many days and the Taupo road is smothered with slips. Napier is free of water but there are several slips in the hills. The Waitangi traffic bridge is broken in the centre and the railway bridge alongside twisted. Water extends from Waitangi to Whakatu. The township of Clive is being inundated this morning, when the Ngaruroro overflowed. There has been a total rainfall for three days of 10 inches 80 points, and for the month 13.99.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 8
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127HAWKE’S BAY FLOODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1938, Page 8
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