BRISBANE’S WORST FLOOD
FOR TWENTY YEARS. (Australian Press Association.) BRISBANE, February. 6. The oitv is in the grip of the worst flood experienced |lor over twenty years. The peak point in the river level is expected about midday. Thousands of people are homeless, and rail-, way and tram services are disorganised. Many refugees were housed last night in public buildings. At the Murrum ba- watershed this . morning. the Brisbane river flood leved reached 63 feet, or over five feet above the 1908 level. The record is eighty feet m March. 1892. Twelve inches of rain were registered at the Exhibition Show Grounds in twenty-four hours. Confusion reigned in the city during the night, and many narrow escapes are recorded. Streams ot refugees are hurrying to higher portions of the city from the low-lying suburbs, which are inundated, carrying whatever effects they have been able to salvage in their hurried flight.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1931, Page 5
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150BRISBANE’S WORST FLOOD Hokitika Guardian, 7 February 1931, Page 5
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