SYDNEY FLOODS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1925, Page 3

SYDNEY FLOODS.

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ENORMOUS DAMAGE. SYDNEY, June 22. Practically the whole State is llnnded. The inundating is causing greater havoc than for the past, twenty-live yea i s. There is enormous damage over aide areas, but the waters are now receding. Penrith is now out of danger. Windsor and Richmond are cut off from Sydney by road, the Hood waters in places being Twenty feet deep. The body of Mr Davidson, a mail contractor and a well-known grazier at Quean hey an. was found near Burra ( reek. He wits swept from a sulky while crossing the creek. Although the waters are receding, in many districts, the weather bnrea'i lias issued a further Hood warn'tig, forecasting additional heavy rain.

THRILLING RESCUES. •SYDNEY. June 22

The river at Forbes continues to rise. It is feared that by to-morrow most of the town "ill be under water Parts of Count are already inundated. The residents are removing their goods to higher levels. A Chinaman attempting to cross a Hooded area was drowned. Although there were many thrillin'-, rescues in the Hooded districts, so h r • nil;, two fatalities have been leforted Canterbury Park laics were abandoned. Heavy continuous rain and cyclonic winds continued during the u;eek-rnd over the north and south coasts and the soul hern tablelands, with tile result that large tracts of country are under water, and the whole counttyside is flooded.

RIVERS IN HEAVY FLOOD. LOSSES SEVERE. (ISeccivoJ ttiis clay at ID a.m.) SYDNEY, June 23. The Ilawcxburv. Upper Murrumbidgee, Lachlan, MacQuarie r.ud Bogan liters are now in heavy Hood. Towns that at present appear to be threatened are Gundaga:. Waga, I orbe-. Condobolin, Dubbo and Warren. The losses in the Windsor District will be severe especially to vegetable trowers. It is estimated that over one million cauliflowers and cabbages are destroyed. Some late maize crops have also been lost. The water is still rising and some streets in the town itself are Hooded. Torrential rain is still in evidence. The W’ingecarribec River at Bonghoug lias broken its banks and the low lying land for miles is covered. (leer seven inches of rain tell at Mosxvale between Friday and .Monday. The I lawkeslmi v at Richmond rose to forty-eight feet above its summer level. It is now two and a half miles wide, making its crossing impossible. The torrent of backwaters, have inundated llic country to a great distance. Frantic efforts have been made to save the stock and valuables, though the major portion thereof is now sale. .Manv horses, inns and nigs perished, and others are in danger. Yesterday was the anniversary ol the record flood of 1 Sli7, when the wafers rose lo sixty-three feet. Woollondilly River dropped rapidly and the flood waters are receding. A washawny occurred bn the railway line between Lowanna and Glenreagli near Dorringo, when Bellinger River overflowed.

RAIN CONTINUES. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) SYDNEY. June 23. Heavy general rain continues, while telegraphic communication is badly i nterrupted. GALE IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE. June 23. During the week-end the city experienced one of the worst gales for many years. Traffic generally is badly disorganised.