NEW GUINEA FLOODS
FOUR NATIVES DROWNED
(Received May 22, 10.30 a.m.)
CANBERRA, This Day,
Advice has been received from the Administrator of New Guinea that four natives were drowned and four are missing as a result of heavy floods near Wau. Flood waters unexpectedly swept down the Namie Creek, a tributary of the Bulo River, last Wednesday night.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 10
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58NEW GUINEA FLOODS Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 10
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