VICTORIAN FLOODS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17286, 29 September 1916, Page 7

VICTORIAN FLOODS.

LARGE AREA FLOODED

TOWNS UNDER. WATER IN GOULBURN VALLEY. fly Telegraph—Prsss Association—Copyright, MELBOURNE, September 28. Owing to the floods there is little' hop© of the levels on tflie lower Goiilburn standing against the tremendous volume of water in the Goulburn. Wallen it goes at least a hundred and fifty thousand acres will be inundated. All tho townships in lower Go*qlburn are cither wholly or partly’ under winter. Ono of Mr Chinnick’s sons was found eighteen hours later in a tree. llis little sister was with him, but shortly before tho rescue she fell into the river and was drowned. \A Melbourne message of Tuesday last stated that the Werribeo overflowed, submerging all low-lying lands at Seymour. Mr Chinnick’s wifo and four children were sheltering on the roof of a house-when it collapsed. Tho father and children wero downed and the wifo was rescued unconscious, with a dead baby clasped in her arms.) > —.—— RAIN IN NEW SOUTH WALES CONTINUES. SIDNEY, September 28. Heavy .general rain continues.