YARRA FLOODS
WATERS SUBSIDING,
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT
MELBOURNE, Aug. 28. The flood has begun to subside, though a heavy body of water is still to come down the Yana. Many settlers in the Kooweerup district were compelled to leave their homes. Some of the marooned were rescued by boats.
Water flooded the lower rooms of the hospital, the patients being hurriedly removed to the Royal Hotel.
DAM BREAKS AWAY.
A SEA OF WATER SIX FEET DEEP
(Received Aug. 29, 9.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 29. The floods at Wangaratta washed away Henley’s dam embankment, a mile and a half long, and W. Woodvard, an elderly farmer, was drowned. The flood stretched in a continuous sea for seven miles, six feet deep. The river at Wagga is 24ft above the summer level, and is still rising. After reaching 25ft at Gundagai it began to recede. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 August 1924, Page 5
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