HEAVY FLOODS.
Four New Guinea Natives
Drowned.
FOUR OTHERS MISSING
(Received 12 noon.) CANBERRA, this day. Advice has hern received from the Administrator of New Guinea that four natives were drowned and four are missing as the result of heavy floods near Wuu.
Flood waters unexpectedly swept down Namie Creek, a tributary of Bnlo River, last Wednesday night.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 9
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