GREAT DAMAGE
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
DEVASTATING FLOODS
KALGOORLIE'S LOSS
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)]. (Received January 23, 11.30 a.m.) PERTH, This Day. Continued storms with heavy rain in. ! the south-western districts caused enormous damage. A baby was drowned when a car overturned from an undermined road into a flooded creek. A cloudburst at Kojonup flooded the surrounding country and houses in the township,.A married couple were extricated with, ropes from their home through which, four feet of water was running. Roads and railways are awash in the Albany district, where, apart from flood damage in the town, about £65,000 worth of potato and other crops has been destroyed. A Kalgoorlie message says that work is resuming there today after th» most devastating floods in ' the history of the field. The total loss over ten days in wages and profits and from flood damage is estimated at £1,500,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 18, 23 January 1939, Page 9
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144GREAT DAMAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 18, 23 January 1939, Page 9
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