FLOODS IN VICTORIA.
; - FEkiis 6>.FURTHER; v\ ; [JE»EBS?. ? iAss6dIATtON.] : .•"'';■■;.,:,;;msi^oue.ne/ » Owing to floods, .there is little [■■• hope of/ '. the'- levels on the . Lower Gonlliiii; ii standing, a gainst the - tremendous of wator. iv the . Goulbiu'n Weir. "When, they go at ■ 'least I'SOjOOO."'acres will be"inundated, 1 and all towiislrips in Lowei-Goulbiirn : will, /be wholly or partially; under ■■■ water. Oho of Chin nock's1 sons 'was' ■ found eighteen hours later in a tree, i | A little sister was with him shortly j 1 before ,flic rescue, but fell into ihe \ river and was drowned. ' 1 [At. Seymour, a. man named Qhin- '■ nock, with hi>s wile and four children, ' were sheltering on the roof of a house ;■ when it collapsed. The father and ! ' children were drowned; but the \vife \ \ was rescued in- an unconscious condi- j ■ tioh, with her dead baby clasped in i i her arms.]
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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 222, 29 September 1916, Page 4
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142FLOODS IN VICTORIA. Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 222, 29 September 1916, Page 4
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