FLOODS IN VICTORIA
♦ GREAT DAMAGE TO ROADS IN SOME AREAS Wind of cyclonic force. TREES AND HAYSTACKS SUFFER. 8y Telegraph—-Press Assoeia’lon —Copyright MELBOURNE, April 13. Rain throughout the State early this morning caused rivers to rise again and revived the serious floods which had been receding after the Easter rains. Rainfall recorded in the last 24 hours was up to two inches in places and half tn inch in the city. In the Shepparton district, in the north-west of the State, great damage was done to roads. In parts of the north-west the rain was accompanied by wind of cyclonic force, which uprooted trees and blew over haystacks, 175 points of rain falling in half an hour. The railway bridge over the Goulburn River at Mooroopna, against which hundreds of tons of floating timber had been piled by flood waters, is believed to have been moved a foot from its position. The rain has now ceased, but more is forecast.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19390414.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1939, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
160FLOODS IN VICTORIA Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1939, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in