SEETTLERS FLEE
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"Post" Special Kervice.
FARMS UNDER WATER MURRAY RIVER- FLOOD COVERS WIDE AREA. TOWNS INUNDATED.
— Gopyrigh-t. •
By Telephone —
ADELA1DE, Monday. The districts in.the neiglibourhood of^he Murray bridges are threatened by an immense. volume of water. About 7000 acres were inundated when the banks of the Murray broke at Glen Lossie. Four settlers were flooded out at Ponde, while at Swan Reach the water rose to ten feet in the main street. Mannum is in the grip of a fiood. Over 100 families have been forced to abandon their homes as a result of a bank giving way. The main street is covered to a depth of several feet. Settlers lower down the Murray are fleeing.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 2, 25 August 1931, Page 3
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