FLOOD WATERS
IMPERIL WENTWORTH.
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day at 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 5
With hospital, picture theatre, and dwellings in Wentworth at the junction of the Darling and Murray rivers protected by embankments holding back several feet- of water, the town resembles a series of islands in a vast expanse of flood waters. The hospital is in great danger. It has been decided to abandon it and remove the patients to Mildurn. Residents ivoivked continuously for five days and nights building levees to keep the rivers back. Many Families are sheltering in tbe gaol. 'Hie waters are still rising.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 6
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102FLOOD WATERS Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1931, Page 6
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