FLOOD MENACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 7

FLOOD MENACE.

TORRENTIAL RAINS.

Overflowing Rivers Causing

Grave Anxiety.

DAMAGE IN AUSTRALIA.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Soaking rains over the greater part of the State have benefited the wheat areas and pastoral lands, -which have been parched for a long period, but while the farmers and graziers are jubilant residents on the banks of the far North Coast rivers are entertaining fears of serious floods.

The Weather Bureau lias issued warnings that heavy floods arc to be expected, particularly in the Richmond and Tweed Rivers districts.

The Tweed overflowed its banks last night, inundating large areas of lowlying land. The BruiisSvick is also in flood, and low-lying areas off Coff's Harbour are under water. Washaways caused the derailment of the locomotive of the North Coast mail. There were also serious washouts on the Moss ValePort Kenibla line.

Newcastle police report that the Hunter River is. rising rapidly.

Heavy rain has fallen in Sydney for the past week, and torrential falls are reported 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, 21, attempting to cross a flooded bridge at Kilqpy in a sulky, was swept away and drowned.