WATERS STILL RISING
DARLING AND MURRAY RIVERS TOWN OF WENTWORTH IH DANGER Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 5. (Received August 5, at 11 a.m.) With the hospital, picture theatre, and dwellings in Wentworth, at the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers, protected by embankments, holding back several feet of water, the town resembles a series of islands in a vast expanse ot flood waters. The hospital is in great danger, and it has been decided to abandon it and remove the patients to Mildura. The residents worked continuously for live days and nights building levees to keep the rivers back. Many families are sheltering in the gaol. The waters are still rising.
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Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 7
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113WATERS STILL RISING Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 7
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