FLOOD DAMAGE
R ESIDENTS FLEEING. (Australian Press Association.) ADELAIDE, August 24. Mennum is in grip of the flood. Over one hundred families'were forced to abandon their houses as the result of a bank giving way. The main street was covered to a depth of several feet. Settlers lower down the river Murray are fleeing.
MURRAY FLOODS. ADELAIDE, August 24. Districts in the neighbourhood of Murray Bridge are threatened by an immense volume of water. About seven hundred acres were inundated when the banks of the Murray broke at Glen Lossie. Four settlers were flooded out af Paude, while at Swan reach, the water rose to ten feet in the main street.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1931, Page 6
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111FLOOD DAMAGE Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1931, Page 6
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