FLOOD FOLLOWS FIRE
VISCISSITUDES OF VICTORIAN TOWNSHIP PEOPLE STRUGGLE TO SAVE FEW BELONGINGS. POLICE AND OTHER HELPERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Noojee, a township that was wiped out by bush fires last month, has been flooded by heavy rain, and homeless residents who have been living in ; tents, had a struggle to save their few' belonging from being swept away in the flooded La Trobe River. Working waist deep in the water, police and volunteer helpers saved what they could of the tents, clothes and other property.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 6
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94FLOOD FOLLOWS FIRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 6
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