AUSTRALIAN FLOOD
(Australian Press Association.)
SYDNEY, February 8
Upward of Jive thousand people have been driven from their homes at Lismore .owing to the floods. The town is in a state of indescribable confusion. There are speed boats racing up and down the main streets with homeless people. 'The members of the telephone exchange are leaving their work in boats. Household furniture is floating about. There are three feet of water in the majority of the shops. Men, women and children are moving about in bathing costumes. Carl Wilkinson, when diving under a house to rescue something, was bit on the head by a projection and drowned.
Another maty attempting to save himself by bolding on to the fail of a horse, which was swimming through the ti rr at. was washed away. but vas liter rescued unconscious and resuscitated
Two men and a Brisbane. boy have been- -drowned--in -Brisbane in the floods which are now rapidly falling, dreds of . refugees are returning to their homes. While the tide was at its peak in. Brisbane River on Saturday, tiie water was about four feet above the- wharves on the northern bank, and drowned cattle and domestic pets were washed down with the torrent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1931, Page 6
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203AUSTRALIAN FLOOD Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1931, Page 6
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