STORMS & FLOODS
ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE IN WEST AUSTRALIA BABY DROWNED IN CAR ACCIDENT. HEAVY LOSSES SUFFERED AT KALGOORLIE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) PERTH, This Day. Continued storms with heavy rain in the south-western districts have caused enormous damage. A baby was drowned when a car was overturned from an undermined road into a flooded creek. A cloudbust at Kojonuy flooded the surrounding country and houses in the township. A married couple were extricated with ropes from their home, through which four feet of water was running.
Roads and railways are awash in the Albany district, where, apart from flood damage in the town, potato and other crops worth about £65,000, have been destroyed. A Kargoorlie message says work is being resumed there today after the most devastating floods in the history of the field. The total loss over ten days in wages, profits and flood damage is estimated at £1,500,000.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1939, Page 6
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154STORMS & FLOODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1939, Page 6
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