UNPRECEDENTED INUNDATIONS.
PUMPING STATION SWEPT
AWAY.
(Received Feb. 6, 9,15 a.m.) BRISBANE, Feb. 6. The floods are unprecedented. The Mareeba is six feet higher than any previous record.
The river broke its banks and covered half a mile of "houses. The flood swept away the pumping station at the State works and wrecked the courthouse at Biboohm.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 32, 6 February 1913, Page 5
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57UNPRECEDENTED INUNDATIONS. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 32, 6 February 1913, Page 5
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