FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 150, 6 April 1933, Page 5

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

NORTH N.S.W. AND QUEENSLAND. THIRTEEN INCHES IN TWO DAYS HUNDREDS OF CATTLE LOST. YOUNG MAN SWEPT AWAY. (United Press Association—Copyright). (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Soaking rains oyer the greater part of the State benefited the wheat areas and pastoral lands, which had been parched for a long period. But while.farmers and graziers are jubilant, residents on the banks of Far North Coast rivers are entertaining fears of serious floods. The Weather Bureau has issued warnings that heavy floods may be expected, particularly in the Richmond and Tweed River districts. ; • The Tweed overflowed its banks last night, inundating large areas of lowlying lands and the Brunswick is also in flood, -low-lying areas off Cofes harbour being under water. Washaways caused derailment of a locomotive in thj? North Coast mail train. There are also serious washouts on the Mossyale-Port Ketnbla line. The Newcastle police report that the Hunter river is rising rapidly. ■ Heavy rain has fallen in Sydney for a week. Torrential falls have been recorded in Queensland. Woodford registered 11 inches in 24> hours, and at Mitchell, where families were forced to vacate their homes, 13 inches fell in two days. Hundreds of head of cattle have been lost and fencing and other property damaged. William Mitchell, aged 21, in attempting to cross a flooded bridge at Kilcoy in a sulky, was swept away and drowned.