RIVERS IN FLOOD
HEAVY RAIN .JN QUEENSLAND.
(Australian Press Association;
BRISBANE, February 16. ’"'hi’rih'er rain,.|s falling in the northwest part ul tlfe stare. Bcnilia. experienced its biggeStWioo'dHii thirty years. Residents in fHfe. -low lying parts were Rescued by police Jfcoats. Blacks in a cabqr'.dn tlidroutsKirts of tlie' town sfimit id,pightv iu - the'" trees, and were ] , esc'uedj|,yesto|tf , ay: /morning. Sheep andrall roads are impassable-. .Bouha is likely to be isolated for weeks.
The Leichardt river at Aiount Isa is in ils biggest.ffood on record, and the bridge is six -feet under water. The bridge at.: Mai bon was washed away and a j-ailway bridge at Cloncuriy was also washed away. Flood waters are eight feet over the rails and no trains are expected a,t Mount Lsa before Sunday.
Grhziers, however, are jubilant as the rain • has reassured their position for itiiliiy months.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 6
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