FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 16, 20 January 1910, Page 5

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA.

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Press Assn —By telegraph—Copyright. (Reecived January 20, 10.32 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.. The executive of the Public Disaster Relief Fund is appealing for assistance for sufferers by the floods. As the waters subside, outside settlers are arriving in the township in a half-starved condition, after spending a couple of days in trees and on roofs. Not the least uncomfortable part experienced was having a share in the resting places of hosts of snakes, spiders, and other creeping things. A man at Boggahri hauled his wife and family to a tree, where they remained secured by ropes a day and a night without food. Boggabri estimates the district's losses'at £40,000. Patients in Narrabri Hospital had an uncomfortable time, the water being up to a depth of four feet in the wards. The men extemporised raised beds, nurses wading round up to their waists attending to the sick. At Inverell the Hoods carried a horse into the fork of a tree, which was cut down, and the animal walked away uninjured. Latest reports from Wee Waa show the water lias fallen four feet. The body of one of the victims of the boating disaster has been recovered. There is much distress among the homeless people, and relief boats have been sent. The postal services over the flooded areas are at a standstill.