AUSTRALIAN RAINS
OA USE DA3I AGE BY FLOOD'S. Australian Press Association.) (Received. Dec. 20th. at 11.15 U.iU.) ~ REIITH, December 20'. Following very ’ heavy rams parts of tlie Fast Kimberley, Gascoyne, and Murchison districts were flooded, and) numerous wash away s occurred. A train was derailed near Aleeketharra where the water ran four feat high over the line.
The engine sank into the niud until the wafer entered the fire boxes. Traffic was disorganised: A man was drowned when attempting to cross a flooded creek.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1932, Page 6
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84AUSTRALIAN RAINS Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1932, Page 6
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