FLOOD DAMAGE
Victorian Crops Suffer STOCKMAN DROWNED Melbourne, December 9. More drenching rain fell yesterday, mostly in the wheat belt in northern and north-western Victoria, where registrations of from eight to eleven inches have been recorded -since Friday. Crops in some instances are three feet under water. Haystacks have been washed away. Thomas O’Brien, aged 47, a stockman, was drowned while trying to move cattle from the danger zone in the Seymour district. He was swept off his horse and his body was discovered entangled in a barbed wire fence. UNWANTED RAIN New South Wales Loss INOPPORTUNE TIME Sydney, December 9. Torrential rain in the southern wheat belt of New South Wales came at an Inopportune time. Not only have some of the heaviest crops been badly battered, but the wheat is likely to be bleached. Hay lying in the fields is damaged, and will probably blacken and deteriorate.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 11
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149FLOOD DAMAGE Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 65, 10 December 1930, Page 11
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