NELSON FLOOD
WASHOUT AT BRIGHTWATER. — TRAIN SERVICES DISLOCATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NELSON. December 1. Flood waters in the Nelson district had receded sufficiently this afternoon to allow some services, including that to Blenheim, to resume. Train services were dislocated today because of a washout at Brightwater. The Waimea River- is still in heavy flood. Two spans of the Dart Bridge at Wangapeka were washed away and the Riwaka River overflowed, inundating a wide area and destroying tobacco plantations. Many roads are still flooded. Large slips are reported on Takaka Hill.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1939, Page 6
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90NELSON FLOOD Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1939, Page 6
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