GALE & FLOODS
N.S.W. SHIPPING SUSPENDED. "many rivers In high flood. (Australian Press Association). (Received this day 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 26. Whipped up by a cyclone, big sw.h are running along the coast from north of Byron Bay to just south of Sydney. Shipping lias been brought almost to a standstill. The North Coast Steam Navigation Company has cancelled all sailings to and from Sydney. The weather bureau has issued a warning to shipping, also of floods on the north- coast. Torrential rains have fallen along the north coast, and large areas are under water. Tlie watershed of the Hastings river is in flood, and other northern rivers are rising rapidly.
The wharves' at Wane-hope on the Hastings river are already five feet under water, and the main roads are blocked.
The Tweed river is ten feet above normal at Munvillumbah. and the tributaries of the Clarence river are flooded, heavy seas af. the mouth of the river backing up the water. _ The motors!)ip, Mdinga, broke away from the wharf at Woolgoolga and was forced out to sea.
Heavy rains continue in SycVtey. and the forecast is for further flood falls. .
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1933, Page 6
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