QUEENSLAND FLOODS

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1032, 17 February 1927, Page 5

QUEENSLAND FLOODS

REVISED DEATH ROLL LOSS OF SUGAR . £600,060 fAust. and N.Z,. Cable!. Brisbane, Fob., 16. The revised flood death roll places the total at 36. One authority at Cairns lias estimated the loss of sugar at approximately £600,000. The weather is now fairly fine-. AH shipping on the coast has been recounted ! 01 5 V

Mails and provisions will he conveyed t<y some inland by air. FISHING PARTY DROWNED. APPALLING DESTRUCTION. ® (Received Feb. 17, 9.35 a.in.) Brisbane, Feb. 17. A report from Innjsfail stales a fishing party at Oyster Bay consisting of John McDonald, Andrew AlcDbnakl, Mistress Aljnn, and three, others were caught in the recent cyclone and drowped. Reports continue to arrive of the appalling destruction > in stricken areas, hut. no estimate of the amount of damage js vet possible.