WIND AND WATER

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 11

WIND AND WATER

CYCLONIC WEATHER

NEW SOUTH WALES COAST

SHIPPING SUFFERS

I (Jolted Prm Association—By Electric T«l«- ---| grapb—Copyright. (Received July 27, 11 a.m.) • SYDNEY, This Day. Though the river levels in most centres were either stationary or receding last night, there is still danger of serious floods should more rain fall.. At Kcmpsey many residents left , their homes, the water being two feet deep in sonic streets. The main North Coast Eoad is three feet under water at Macksville. A number of families ■were forced to vacate their homes at Bellingen in the early hours of the morning. Washaways occurred in the Dorrigo district, and mails were delayed in many centres. Telephonic and telegraphic services are dislocated, and small centres isolated by floodwaters. A youilg man was drowned in the Macleay River when he :dived into the swollen stream to recover a boat.

The cyclone is now passing south. All along the New South Wales coast shipping has received a severe buffeting, and a number of vessels have jjeen forced to hove-to, and on the North Coast a number of small craft were swamped. The Monterey, the one vessel which kept to schedule made a sight as she fought her way out of the Heads into the teeth of an easterly gale.