HEAVY RAIN
IN NORTH CANTERBURY MINOR FLOODING CAUSED. SOME ROADS & FORDS IMPASSABLE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Minor flooding and dislocation of communications were reported in North Canterbury today as a result of the first real rainfall the province has had since last winter. Three inches and more of rain are reported from northern districts during the last 48 hours. The Pahau River was over the main north road south of Culverden. The Mason River ford, eight or nine miles north of Waiau, was impassable, and the mail bus from Kaikoura could not make the trip. Schools in the Oxford district, were closed today because many pupils were unable to negotiate the flooded streams.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1941, Page 6
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115HEAVY RAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1941, Page 6
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