FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

Evening Star, Issue 20972, 10 December 1931, Page 10

FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA

MANY PORTS OF QUEENSLAND MENACED NEW SOUTH WALES RIVERS RISING SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright* BRISBANE, December 10. . (Received December 10, at 10.10 a.m.)' * Floods continue to menace many parts of the State. Traffic is completely disorganised. In several dis-c tricts a number of settlers are isolated, and are running short of provisions.Widespread damage is likely to result from the torrential downpours. Tho flood waters entered several Brisbane suburbs, shops being inundated. The manager of the State Wheat Board estimates that the yield of the incoming harvest will be reduced from 6,000,000 to 3,000,000 bushels. A severe thunderstorm at Toowoomba was responsible for the death of a young woman (Annie Bailey) and a youth (Harold Howard). An improvised dam broke, and a twelve-foot wall of water swept over a farm, overtaking the couple. They were engulfed and disappeared. ■ Later Howard’s body was discovered three miles away. Tho woman’s body has not yet been found* Two people are missing from .Blanchview. They are believed to have been drowned. 1 All the inland rivers of northern New South Wales are now threatened with floods. A young man was drowned in ai flooded creek near Lismore.