BRI.SBAXE, Feb. 9. Food for fifty families marooned in the flooded Haugliten River distriet of Queensland, has reaehed them by boat across a wide area of deep water. At some points in the area, which is only slightly above sealevel, tlie farmlands are under feet of water. The police, in boats, had to cross 500 yards of swollen rivers soutli of Townsville. R.A.A.F. planes are being used to drop supplies to marooned railwav settlers along the nortli coast railway.
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 February 1947, Page 5
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