FLOOD DISASTER
TWELVE NATIVES DROWNED IN NEW GUINEA. CLOUDBURSTS & LANDSLIDES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 16. Advice of a disastrous rainstorm, which swept one of the New Guinea goldfields areas in the middle of last month, has been received in Auckland. It is stated that, after two cloudbursts above nearby mountains, flooding washed away some of the houses in the compound for native labourers, and 12 of the men were drowned. In addition a new mill was damaged, and parts of Edie Road washed away. Thousands of tons of rubble slipped down the mountainside as the result of a second downpour. Further stretches of road leading out of the mine were washed away or covered with slips.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 7
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117FLOOD DISASTER Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1939, Page 7
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