SEVEN DROWNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 6, 8 January 1934, Page 7

SEVEN DROWNED.

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS.

Series of Disasters in N.S.W.

And Queensland.

MORUYA'S TERRIBLE PLIGHT.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. During the week-end seven persons perished by drowning. Fighting heroically to rescue a man and girl in the flooded Nymboida River., near Grafton, William McCarthy, aged 13, was drowned. The man and girl were rescued. Caught in a heavy storm while rowing on the Hunter River, two members of a party of six were drowned when the boat capsized in a sudden squall. The victims were Mrs. Florence Germyne, aged 34, and Bcrnico Ellis, aged seven. Four male members of the party reached the shore. . Leslie Abel, aged 10, was drowned in tho swollen Wolli Creek at Undercliffc. Slipping into the flooded Wollondilly River, Billy Clarke, aged 12, wa» swept away and drowned. Terrific storms over the Darling Downs, Queensland, caused streams to become flooded. A half-caste travelling with eattlo was drowned in the Condamine River. William Dennett and his 11-year-old son were crossing a creek in a cart when floodwatcrs overturned tho vehicle and" both were swept downstream. The boy was carried against a tree and lie scrambled to safety, but the father's body was found wedged between rocks. When three dams burst at Lockhart business houses and -many private dwellings were flooded. Serious floods are feared in the Riverina district, where torrential rains have fallen. Water is lying five feet deep in some paddocks, and water is four feet high in houses at Boree Creek. As the result of a deluge on the South Coast, Moruya is isolated and surrounded by swirling flood waters. The Goulburn police stated: "We should not be surprised if many people have lost their lives, so terrible must the conditions be at Moruya." All wires are down and roads are impassable. Moruya is a town five miles from the heads of the River Dena, 198 miles south of Sydney.