TREMENDOUS DAMAGE
NEW SOUTH WALES FLOODS
ALL: DANGER NOW PAST
(Beceived 21st June, 10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
Tremendous damage has been done in the Hunter Valley by floods. Koads have become canals, and a motor-boat made an extensive tour of what is normally dry ground. Many residents of Hexham spent Thursday night on the roof tops and were rescued by flood boats. Another family was picked up exhausted after a night on a floating haystack. Many isolated North Coast towns have been without supplies for days. They will receive necessities by aeroplanes which left Sydney yesterday. The roofs of some houses at Hexhamcoalfield are just showing above the flood waters. Seventy-five houses in Hexham were nearly covered.
The East Greta colliery workings are flooded, and the mine may have to be abandoned.
Eeports from the flooded country districts state that the rain has finished. All danger of further floods is past. '
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 9
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TREMENDOUS DAMAGE
Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 144, 21 June 1930, Page 9
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