Food & Clothes Issued In Flood Stricken Kempsey
SYDNEY, Sept. 2. Hundreds of people are queuing to receive food and clothing in flooddevastated Kempsey. In the town alone 2000 people are still being fed and may need this service for many weeks. No typhoid has yet been reported and the water service has been partially restored.
When Senator S. K. Amour and other members of the State and Federal Flood Relief Committee visited Kempsey they received sharp crossexamination from the residents who said that unless adequate aid was forthcoming Australia would lose one of its greatest dairying centres. Senator Amour said that the devastation was the worst the committee had ever seen. Planes are still dropping food to stranded families. ■ The railway damage is greater than expected and it will now take two weeks to repair.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23041, 3 September 1949, Page 5
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