QUEENSLAND FLOODS
FAMILIES LEFT HOMELESS.
TWO BUILDINGS LEFT. FOSSILBROOK \S FATE. BY CA BLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. BRISBANE, Jan. 25. Owing to the possibility of a Hood m the Brisbane River, the port .author tties have issued a warning advising al shipping as- a precautionary meiasuie to move out into More ton Bay. Several steamers have vacated their berths at the wharves. With a partial restoration ot communications, graphic stories of the Hoods are reported in the Queensland coastal area. At Fossil brook, on the Lvnd River, only two buildings a school and a police station are- left standing. A dozen families have been left without silelter and only the clothes they stood in. One man has lost four hundred goats. Since January 15 fifteen inches of rain have fallen and rain is still falling. . , At Brisbane, the water mams supplying Ipswich are broken, and the town is drawing supplies from another reservoir, which, however, holds only two days’ supply.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 January 1927, Page 5
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159QUEENSLAND FLOODS Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 26 January 1927, Page 5
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