FLOODING IN N.S.W.
RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL CROPS SUFFER HEAVILY (11 a.m.) SYDNEY, Dec. 13. Flood water last night blocked all main, roads outside the south-coast town of Woollongong and isolated the town for four hours. • _ Nearly half-a-mile of Princes Highway (the Sydney-Melbourne road) was under four feet of water and hundreds of cars were banked up. Rain has fallen all over the State for days past. A week of incessant rain has soaked the wheatfields, which need drying winds and sunshine to recover. Cherry growers in the Orange district have lost their crop valued at £30,000. . . .. Sydney is now experiencing its fifth successive wet week-end. It is very doubtful whether there will be any play in the second Test cricket match today. .
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22510, 13 December 1947, Page 5
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