IN NEW SOUTH WALES
RESULT- OF. RECENT RAINS
PEOPLE FEAR FLOODS
(United Press Association—By Electric 'telegraph—Uoiiyrlglit.) (deceived 13th July, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. As tho result: of the recent heavy rain the flood waters of Lake Uraua have covered fifteen thousand acres to a depth or" from 10ft to 15ft, and residents want the Water Conservation Department to cut the dam at tlio entrance of the lake and release the water. The townspeople are becoming alarmed as the wator is gradually backing up round tho town and it.is still raining lightly. There is some talk of direct action iv cutting the dam down. People at ■Jcrilderic, Moulamoiii, and. Dcniliquin, towns lower down the river, object 'to the dam being cut, as their property would then be flooded.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 9
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128IN NEW SOUTH WALES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 9
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