RECENT FLOODS
INTERESTING SIDELIGHTS. Australian Press Association.) (Received 8.30 n.m.) SYDNEY. February 11. An interesting sidelight on the recent floods in the north is disclosed. A local inhabitant discovered that his weatherboard cottage, was a mile from its original site, having been carried bodily off its blocks by the torrent.
Another family returned to find their furniture entirely re-arranged, the swirling waters changing the bedroom into the kitchen and vice versa.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1931, Page 5
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71RECENT FLOODS Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1931, Page 5
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