NOT UNMIXED BLESSING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 238, 28 December 1927, Page 9

NOT UNMIXED BLESSING

♦ ] RAIN IN QUEENSLAND FLOODS AND FATALITIES By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. J Reed. 9.5 a.m. BRISBANE, To-day. . Stock and station agents are jubil- > ant over the general prolific rainfalls c in Queensland. They report that the stock market ‘ is active, but financial difficulties are \ greatly hampering graziers. As - quickly as finance is obtained, it is s invested in stock for restocking pur- i poses. i The rivers continue to rise, and 3 flood warnings have been issued in ! several places. There have been no ; reports of serious losses of stock. RIVERS BANK HIGH ; A message from Longreach, 420 j miles west of Rockhampton, says a ’ wet season appears to have set in. ’ Rivers and creeks are running bank > high and a record flood is feared at < Aramac. 1 The average fall for the district is four inches, but some places have received from 10 to 12 inches of rain. The rainfall each day extends further west, and nearly all the graziers are arranging to bring their stock back to their home pastures. Serious floods are feared in parts of the south-west, where the rivers are rising rapidly. TRAFFIC DISLOCATED < Heavy floods in the central and J western districts have caused a gen- j eral dislocation of traffic and much damage. The rivers are all over- 1 flowing. Two lives are reported to have been lost in the Longreach district. Mr. ] Willis Mayne, an overseer on the ! Mount Cornish station, and a black 1 boy attempted to swim their horses ! across a creek. Mayne was washed away and drowned. The boy succeeded in reaching the bank in an exhausted condition. An unknown man was surrounded by the flood waters of the Thompson River and was drowned while trying to escape.—A. and N.Z.