FLOODS IN QUEENSLAND
TREMENDOUS RAINFALL
HIGH WATER AT 081
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 12th May, 11 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. Heavy damage was caused on the South Coast districts at the week-end by torrential rains, which fiooded watercourses, sweeping away several bridges, flooding farms, and causing landslides. At Bald Knob thirteen inches fell in 21 hours. The Great Northern road is impassable, the river being seven feet over the bridges at Mooloolah. The Obi Valley is fiooded and tho bridge over the Obi River has been I swept away. The water here is , the I highest for thirty years. Telephone posts and fencing have been washed away. A cloudburst at Sandy Cr,eck I caused much damage to crops and busi-'] ness premises.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 9
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