BATTLE WITH FLOOD
Serious Plight of Town
“A SERIES OF ISLANDS”
Sydney, August 5,
With the hospital, picture theatre, and dwellings in Wentworth at the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers protected by embankments holding back several feet of water, the town resembles a series of islands in a vast expans of flood waters. The hospital is in great danger, and it has been decided-to abandon it and remove the patients to Mildura. Residents have worked continuously for five days and nights building levees to kee > the rivers back. Many families are sheltering in the gaol. The waters are still rising.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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102BATTLE WITH FLOOD Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 266, 6 August 1931, Page 9
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