FLOOD HAZARDS
HUNGRY CROCODILES. ; J.. •, • - h ' '■% *■ If* •• • ' Trial* FV»r Settlers In Northern Territory. V • MISSION STATION DESTROYED (Received noon.) SYDNEY, this day. Reports reaching tell of extensive damage by" floods and cyclones in the Northern Territory. The Roper River mission station has bseu destroyed and the. mission lugger lost. Ntunerow email settlement* have )mmr flooded and groups of settlers who liave taken refuge mm ieolated high ground may soon be desperately ebort of food. Some residents fleeing for tbeir lives liefore flood waters had also to face hazard* of gales and crocodiles. Crocodiles, leaving the rivers with the floodwuters, threshed round small boat* in which settlers were oscaping and drugged down stock which the settlers were trying t6 save.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 8
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