AUSTRALIAN FLOODS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1926, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS

PANIC STRICKEN CHINESE. NO LOSS OE LIFE. [Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received this day at 9.30 a. in A SYDNEY, March 20. The Macquarie River lias risen from the 33 feet to the 50 feet level.

AVelhiigton is experiencing the greatest flood in the district, which is a record. For the past nine days the rain aggregated 14J inches, whilo tho water, in places, is eighteen inches to two feet deep. The people are keeping the water from the main business portion of the town by building barricades of wood and sandbags.

There were many exciting and narrow escapes on the Bell River Flats. People were taken from their homes in boats. Terror stricken Chinamen were with difficulty, persuaded to leave their houses, some being taken from tho roof.

The water at the junction of the Macquarie and Bell Rivers is over a mile wide.

Many valuable imported stud at

mills are in danger. There have been no fatalities. In there have been heavy losses among; cattle and other stock.

Tlii? latest report from Bubbles stales he Macquarie river is still rising fas

ml has broken its banks in Severn ilaces.

The Cheegong River at Mudgcc*

ailing sind it ks thought the worst i. he Hood is past.

Growers in the Bathurst District sufered many thousand sterling damage o their crops, chiefly tomatoes and •egctahles. The lowlying areas aio aider water.

The train service to the western par f the .State is dislocated owing to i

wnsh-n way. The Meteorologist stales that, centre of the disturbance is about one hundred and fifty miles east of Newcastle and is moving in a south-easterly

Erection at the rate of four to five Kindred miles daily. A few vessels ventured to sea. veserday and the coastal vessels are outside the south shelter. In the city and suburbs fences and Tees were blown down, while some miidiligs were unroofed.