QUEENSLAND FLOODS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 94, 11 December 1931, Page 5

QUEENSLAND FLOODS

(Press. Assn.-

WIDE AREA INUNDATED AND SETTLERS ISOLATED SEVERAL DEATH S REPORTED

— By Telegraph — Copyrlght).

BRISBANE, Thurs. Floods continue to menace many parts ef the State and traffic is completely disorganised. In several districts a number of settlers are isolated. They are running short of provisions. Widespread damage is likely to result from the torrential downpours. Floodwaters entered several Brisj bane suburbs, the shops heing inundated.

The manager of the State Wheat Board estimates that the yield of the incoming harvest has been reduced from 6,000,000 to 3,000,000 bushels. A severe thunderstorm at Toowoomba was responsible for the death of a young woman (Annie Bailey), and a youth (Harold Howard). An improvised dam broke, and a twelve foot wall of water swept over the j farm', overtaking the couple. They were engulfed and disappeared. Later, Howard's body was discovered three miles away. The woman's body has not yet been found. Two people are missing from Blanchview, and it is believed they

have been drowned. All the northern inland rivers in New South Wales are now threatened with floqds. A young man was' drowned in a flooded creek near Lismore.