SERIOUS FLOODS
HEAVY DAMAGE IN NEW SOUTH WALES WATERS INVADE MANY TOWNS. MAN DROWNED IN GULLY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY. Thic Day. Roads haye been badly damaged and bridges washed away by serious flooding in the south-western districts of New South Wales. Many towns were invaded by flood waters and washaways have closed all railway lines- in the south-west, with the exception of the main line between Sydney and Melbourne.
Leo Doyle, aged 36, a postman, was swept, away and drowned near Gun? dagai, when a truck stalled in a gully.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 6
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96SERIOUS FLOODS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1939, Page 6
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