MORE FLOODS
A STOCKMAN DROWNED. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) MELBOURNE, December 9. More drenching rain fell to-day, mostly in the wheat belt of Northern and'Northwestern Victoria, where the registrations'were from eight to eleven inches since Friday. Crops in some instances ate’'three feet under water. Haystacks' were washed away. • There w ; as one drowning victim, Thdmas O’Brien, 47, a stockman, trying to move cattle from a danger zonein Seymdur district, was swept off his hdfse. ' His' body was discovered entangled in a barbed wire fence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1930, Page 6
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89MORE FLOODS Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1930, Page 6
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