TRAINS BLOCKED
WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FLOODS Prrw Anicifttion—By Telegraph—Copyright I ADELAIDE, February 28. Seventeen tons of mails for all States and New Zealand, which arrived by the Orford at Fremantle on Tuesday' week, have since been held up at Forrest, on the transcontinental railway, which is flooded. The postal authorities are now trying to arrange to have the mails taken from Forrest to Cook by‘ aeroplanes, thence overland by train to their destination. It is quite unlikely that they will be in Adelaide before next Wednesday. Many of the marooned passengers are returning to ’ Perth, while some are at the end of their resources and living in railway carriages.
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Evening Star, Issue 20422, 1 March 1930, Page 15
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108TRAINS BLOCKED Evening Star, Issue 20422, 1 March 1930, Page 15
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