WIDESPREAD FLOODS
DOWNPOUR IN TROPICAL QUEENSLAND
LAST YEAR’S TOTAL RAINFALL ALREADY EXCEEDED.
YOUTH LOSES HIS LIFE
Er Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. .Received This Day, 11.40 a.rn.) BRISBANE, This_ Day. A youth was drowned in flood waters ai South Johnstone and a survey patty is marooned at Jarra Creek, following on torrential rains which swept the tropical coast in the weekend. Train services in the north are disorganised and passengers are stranded. Since the new year, G 7 J inches' of rain have fallen in the Tully district, and 59 inches at Cairns. This is more than fell during the whole of last year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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102WIDESPREAD FLOODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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