DROUGHT BREAKS
‘Dead Heart’ Of Australia
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) BRISBANE, Jan. 11
The drought is breaking in the “dead heart” of Australia,; although no rain has fallen in the arid area. Heavy rain on the mountains in northern Queensland, however, has turned the Diamantina river and Cooper’s Creek into three-mile-wide raging torrents. The two rivers, for most of the year just a series of muddy waterholes, “flow” more than a thousand miles from the great dividing range into Lake Eyre. Apart from saving thousands of thirsty, starving sheep the floods will give a long respite to wildlife, both indigenous and imported, which had faced near extinction be{cause of drought
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 8
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109DROUGHT BREAKS Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 8
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