VICTORIAN FLOODS
TRAIL OF DEVASTATION
GREAT DAMAGE DONE
(Received April 23; 11 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, This Day.
The Gippsland flood waters are subsiding, leaving a trail of devastation. Thousands of pounds worth of damage to stock and property has been done to an already impoverished countryside.
Bairnside and Sale remain completely isolated, and,' although no casualties occurred, settlers experienced difficulty in escaping from their inundated properties. Many houses were submerged, and rescue operations, were continued throughout Sunday night and yesterday, whole families being taken from their homes iri boats.
To prevent a repetition of the floods the Premier, the Hon. A. A. Dunstan, has announced that "Cabinet will discuss immediately a programme of flood protection works. > ■
It. was- stated yesterday that a fortnight's heavy rain, culminating in a torrential downpour during the weekend, had caused extensive floods in Gippsland. Bridges had been destroyed and othercbmmunications interrupted, causing a number of towns'to become isolated. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 9
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