New Zealand retained a state of emergency in parts of its flood-battered South Island on Sunday as authorities weighed damage in the region hardest hit by four days of torrential rain.
"We are working as quickly as we can to get people home safely," emergency management officials
, adding that while they had looked at about half the affected properties, detailed inspections could need days, depending on the weather.While the extreme weather has eased, warnings against heavy rain stay in western Tasman and Fiordland on the South Island, forecaster MetserviceA state of emergency continues in the regions of Marlborough, West Coast and Nelson-Tasman, national emergency officials have said.
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