FLOODS CLAIM VICTIM.
Youth Missing Three Days In Queensland. TRAINS HELD UP. (Received 12 noon.) BRISBANE, this day. - It is feared that floods in the north have claimed one victim in a youth named who left Abercorn three days ago to take food'to his father, who is working in the bush. He has not been seen and it is feared that he was drowned.
At Bundaberg the water is covering the wharves to a depth of nine feet and entered many dwellings. Several trams, met swollen rivers north of Townsville and bridges have been submerged at Proserpine, where an exceptionally severe flood is feared.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 7
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104FLOODS CLAIM VICTIM. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 19, 23 January 1929, Page 7
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