QUEENSLAND FLOODS
Six Inches Falls In Hour
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 8 p.m.) BRISBANE, Feb. 21. A near cyclone has swept the floodwaters through a 250-mile strip of coastline between Mackay and Townsville on the North Queensland coast.
Parts of the area received 14 inches of rain in the past twelve hours and the small town of Ayr had six inches in one hour. North of Ayr, the Houghton river is 15 miles wide instead of its normal 200 yards in the worst flood for 11 years. There have been no reports of casualties.
In the Mackay district, a farmer’s wife Is reported to have given birth to a child in a car surrounded by swirling floodwater.
Sixty-mile-an-hour gales have damaged several homes.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28518, 22 February 1958, Page 13
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