MELBOURNE FLOODED
(Prgss Assp.:
CHRISTMAS ^T.Q^M FIERGE STORM SWEEPS - THROUGH THE CITY MANY HOMES ABANDONED
— By Telegraph— C.rpyrlght).
Melppnrne, Dec. 12. Chrjs'tmas day festivities were sud- j denly er.ded jp Melbourpe late in the 1 afternpon when P terrific thunder- ' stprrp bpojxe over the city and spb- j urbs. The city stpeets wjere flooded j and trafficvdislocated. It )yps nearly an hpnr before the 1 trams could leave the city] ! Water rushed over the bonnets of m.otor cars, hundre.ds of cars being stranded in the streets. More than j60,0 families were forc- J ed to abandon their homes at Kens- ! ington, when the canal from Monee tp Pond Crpek broke its banks last ' night, * | Thousands of tons of earth and water swept through the streets in . the low-lying area adjoining tfye creek. . The damage was very heavy. ! An early morning check showed that several peopl.e were not ac- ; couxrted , for.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 724, 27 December 1933, Page 5
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150MELBOURNE FLOODED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 724, 27 December 1933, Page 5
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