AUSTRALIAN FLOODS RAPIDLY RECEDING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6540, 23 February 1928, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS RAPIDLY RECEDING

Many Districts Still Suffering Hardships WATER AT GrRAFTON, BUT NONE TO DRINK [By Electric Cable-Copyright.] fAust and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received Wednesday, 10.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 2-2. All the flooded areas report fine weather. The water Is steadily falling. After being inundated for .a week Grafton is now in a paradoxical position being without water, for drinking and household purposes, the flood waters having broken tie intake into the reservoir. : Meantime residents are using flood waters which owing to the amount of decayed: debris and drowned animals arc not too »weet or palatable. . The. streets and many of the flooded homes are in a filthy condition being covered with mud, slime and other debris. Cleaning operations are in full spying where practicable. Still Marooned. Many dwellers on an island in thd Clarence river and' elsewhere ■in outly- 1 ing places -are still marooned suffering from lack of food. Emergency tran» port is being organised to relieve them and largo 1 numbers of stock, which owing to the wholesale destruction of pasturage and fodder .are in famishing condition. Nyngan reports that police boats laden with food supplies are having al hazardous time negotiating the flooded Logan i River and relieving isolated settlors. Vast stretches of pastoral country are under water and stock losses are .very heavy, It is estimated that 40,000 sheep have perished. j The river has commenced to recede but a lot' of water is still to come down and it is feared worse things are W store. Two Days Without Food. Glen lanes was among the place* which, suffered severely through th< floods. In several instances isolated partita had to be rescued, some hwying been two days without food. Eugowra reports the flood wet era rushed right through the town, pouring into all the houses and washing some away bodily, also bridges -<ind crops. The water rose so rapidly that people in motor-cars in the streets' were surrounded by deep water and had to be rescued. Many people have been rendered homeless. Damage in the district is estimated at £loo,oo'o. , Brownings ife North. Reports from Brisbane state that two ■ more men are reported drowned' in the floods. . v Maryborough is still in the grip of invading water. The Mary River is Several feet over the wharves. The lower portion of the v town .is flooded and many residents have been compelled to leave their homes. v