FLOODS SUBMERGE N.S.W. TOWN
Families Rescued From Rooftops (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 23. Families were rescued from rooftops and trees at Bonshaw, in northern New South Wales, today as floods submerged the town. The nearby town of Boggabilla is cut off, and 300 people at an aborigine station are short of food. Floodwaters sweeping down from Queensland are 15ft deep in Bonshaw’s streets. Army ducks rescued families clinging to rooftops or trees. Police in boats evacuated 30 families at Boggabilla. A Royal Australian Air Force Dakota early today dropped food to the 300 people who have been stranded at the aborigine station near Boggabilla.
Doomi—down river from Boggabilla —is preparing to meet the floods. Across the border at Goondiwindi, police may have to evacuate nearly 3000 men. women and children.
Heavy seas are pounding the north coast. An oil tanker has the disabled 3000-ton dredge Hermes in tow. The 960-ton coastal freighter Bonalbo. which ran aground on a sandbank in •the Richmond river at Ballina yesterday, is still fast.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27874, 24 January 1956, Page 13
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