RIVER BREAKS BANKS
NEW SOUTH WALES FLOOD DAMAGE GREAT AREA UNDER WATER (United P.A By Telegraph — Copyright) Reed. 12.40 p.m. SYDNEY, Today. Rain lias fallen almost continuously along the coast for the past 50 hours. Rivers are rising everywhere. All the flats along the Hunter River, above Newcastle, are under water. The township of Wallsend is threatened, and portions of Windsor are endangered. More than 10,000 acres of flat country near Windsor are covered by flood waters, as a result of the Hawkesbury River breaking its banks. The damage to crops is very heavy. Many homes are threatened, and stock has been removed to higher levels. The.river is 20 feet above its summer level, and is still rising. The roads are blocked, the bridges being under water.
The State meteorologist says floods are likely in all the coastal rivers, as further heavy falls of rain are expected. Storms are predicted in the Tasman Sea.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 794, 15 October 1929, Page 9
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154RIVER BREAKS BANKS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 794, 15 October 1929, Page 9
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