TOWN MAROONED
HEAVY N.S.W, FLOODS ; CROPS DEVASTATED * SYDNEY, Dec. 16. Floods following a cloudburst have marooned 1000 people in' Glen Davis,* the shale oil township in the Capiertee Valley. A youth was drowned while swimming in the flooded Capertee River and his body was carried downstream. A wall of water surged 6ft. over the only bridge leading into Glen Davis and though it subsided six hours later the bridge is still covered with dead stock, timber and other debris. The approaches have been washed away. The Weather Bureau sees no sign of the end of heavy rain which is causing widespread damage • to crops in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. It is now estimated that more than 20,000,000 bushels of wheat have been lost in New South Wales, reducing the State’s record harvest to less than 100,000,000 bushels. As a result of continued downpours road transport is at a standstill in many parts of the State and the transport of crops is held up. Many roads in the wheat belt have been turned into quagmires. In the Grenfell area, dams have broken their banks. The early cherry crop in the Orange district has been completely ruined and 80 per cent of later varieties in the Young district have been destroyed. At Richmond, the Hawkesbury River last night rose 19ft above the normal level.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 17 December 1947, Page 7
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