RIVERS STILL RISING

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 102, 27 October 1934, Page 9

RIVERS STILL RISING

SYDNEY, October 26. Many residents have boon driven from their homes at Bathursb by flood waters. The town faces an alarming position. The Maequarrio River is still rising dangerously. The gasworks are flooded, and failure of the gas supply is expected. Large numbers of stock have been drowned and crops ruined. Water- entered the townships or! Orange^ Parkes, mid Gumlagai. At Queanbeyan, near Canberra, the main streets ure flooded to » depth oil two feet. Heavy losses of newly-shorn sheep aro reported in this district. A iater message states that the flood position in the western and southern districts of New South Wales is still very serious. Bathurst, Parkes, and Dubbo report that miles of country are submerged. A dance party of 50 people has been marooned si a small village outside Dubbo since Wednesday night, and tho members aro unable to reach their homes! The Murrumbidgee River at Wagga is expected to overflow its banks at any minute, and the inhabitants have evacuated homes within the danger zone. Farm lands at Tumut are under water, and people are being rescued by boats. E? special arrangement toiler's worlrt service, in addition to other special sources of luformation, is used in tho compilation of tha overseas intelllgenco published In this issue, and nil rights therein in Australia and New Zealand ara rssoiTed,