TONS OF MAIL HELD UP
FLOODS ON EAST-WEST
RAILWAY
ADELAIDE, 28th February.
Seventeen tons of mails for all the States' and New Zealand, which arrived by the Orford at Fremantle on Tuesday week, have been held up sinco at Forrest, on the transcontinental railway, which is flooded. The Postal authorities now are trying to arrange to have the mails taken from Forrest to Cook by aeroplanes, and thence overland by train to their destinations. It is quite unlikely that they will.bo in Adelaide before next Wednesday.
Many of the marooned passengers aro returning to Perth. Some are at the end of their resources andare living in tho railway carriages.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 9
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109TONS OF MAIL HELD UP Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 9
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