TORRENTIAL RAIN
SERVICES D^ORGANISED. 350 POINTS IN FIFTEEN MINUTES. (Australian Press Association ) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, December 9. Many Queensland rivers are now in high flood. Railway washawavs disorganised the mail services, and the Roma to Injune train was forced to return as the water was three feet over the rails.
A totai of 350 points of rain fell in fifteen minutes at Byrmont on this line. Four inch's fell in forty-five minutes at Toowoomba. The channels in the city were unable to carry away the huge volume of water and the city was flooded. Business premises suffered severely, while fences were washed down and gardens ruined. The Brisbane-Toowoomba railway line was blocked owing to serious landslides.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1931, Page 5
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