FOOD FOR FLOOD VICTIMS

Chronicle (Levin), 18 February 1947, Page 2

FOOD FOR FLOOD VICTIMS

! PACK HORSES BEING USED Keceived Mouday, 9.45 p.m. SYDXi-V, i- el). 17. J I'uidv horses are iteing used to ge. food to the uorthweslern toun of ilogi wliieli has been eui otf I > y noods to; more tliau a week. Aliout i(.)0 resulent.have run short of provisions an.i Law had no mail for a lortniglit. Vne raH j uav and ,roads are unuer water an-.l ' volunteers uiio made the trip said 'timi ; at times their horses had tu uade I through girth-deep tloods. Ouing to llood uaters pouriug doui. i the yiaeliityre ainl i\'a;iioi rivers, tu. ! Baruou Kiver has banked' up to a dauger level. lu other areas the danger ! lias passeil and the weather is fine. j, Uaies reai-hing (;U miles an liour un- ; roofed buildings, ture down telephuu.' | wires and stnpped crops around three j touus uear .lunee. This foilous three tlays of windstonus iu ihe tiroa. Earliei i iu the week heavy rain uasiied away j lenees and vaused other damage. A ! duststonn follouid the gales and j eaused further damage. Klsewhere the j rains and e.xtreme weather are moder ' titing and a geu"ral inipniveineiit iu the:

vrops and forage is noted. Heavy seas continned along tlie New South Wales i-oast during tiie v.eekend tuni swiiuiiier.s at hydney beaehes were kept out of the water by the rough eon ditions and by the quautities of ueed in the surf. The fortv foot keteh Unis ,T, whieli reeently eonipeted in the Syd ney-llobart yaelit rtiee, was towed to sal'ety by the pilot steamer Janies (took af^ter being ut sea two davs witlioul a rudder. The keteh was caught in the suutlieasterly gale while sailing from Jervois Bay to Sydney. Seas carried away the rudder and 3d feet of railing and flooded below. The crevv burned distress flares oi? Kaiaia on Thursdav niglit but nobodv respotuled so the keteh held on for Sydney.