AUSTRALIAN NEWS
ADELAIDE, August 18, Three hundred families are still homeless at Port Pirie, and it is expected that it iwi.ll be a fortnight before they can return to their flooded dwellings. The damage is estimated at £150.000. ADELAIDE, August IS. The inquiry ordered by the Government into the affairs of seventeen companies operating in South Austraba will begin in Adelaida on Monday. Tho Registrar of Companies. Mr Briskham. has been appointed to the Royal Commission to conduct the invesigati'on. ADELAIDE. August 17. Flood waters at Port Pirie are receding but the greater part of Elendale is still submerged. The bodies <f the two babies have been recovered. One of ’the. pathetic features of the tragedy has been th c wholesale destruction of cats, dogs and domestic creatures, which are to be seen lying dead in all directions. The Mayor has opened a Hind to which the Government has given a thousand pounds, and a Port Pirie firm £2OOO. SYDNEY, August 17. The peak of the flood in the Murrumbridgee pas.-ed las't night, and the water arc now subsiding.
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Grey River Argus, 20 August 1934, Page 7
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