MIXED BLESSING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 11

MIXED BLESSING

RAINS IN AUSTRALIA

DROUGHT, GONE, FLOODS ARRIVE

(Eeeeivea April 6, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Soaking rains over the greater part of the State benefited the'wheat areas and pastoral lands, which have been parched for a long period, but while farmers and. graziers are jubilant, residents on the banks of the far north coast rivers are entertaining fearE of serious floods. The Weather Bureau has issued warnings that heavy floods are expected, particularly in the Richmond and Tweed Eiver districts. Tho Tweed overflowed its banks last night, inundating large areas of low-lying land. The Brunswick is also in flood, and low-lying areas ,6ff ;Coff 'a Harbour are under water.

Washaways caused the derailment of the locomotive of the North Coast Mail. There are also serious wash-outs on the Moss Vale and Port Kembla line. The Newcastle police report that the Hunter River is rising rapidly. Heavy rain has fallen in Sydney for the past week. Torrential falls were recorded in Queensland. Woodford registered eleven inches in twenty-four hours, and at Mitchell, where families wero forced to vacate their homes, thirteen inches fell in two days. Hundreds of head of cattle, have been lost, and fencing and other property damaged. William Mitchell (21), attempting to cross a flooded bridge at Kilcoy in a sulky, was- swept away and drowned.