QUEENSLAND FLOODS
SOLDIER SETTLERS ISOLATED
MORE LANDSLIDES REPORTED. BANANA CROPS DAMAGED. BV GABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COP/RIGHT. BRISBANE, Jan. 30. Owing to the Condamine river overflowing its banks, the branch line trains of southern Queensland are held up, and a large number of soldier settlers and families at Cecil Plains are isolated, and it is impossible for them to obtain the necessities of life until the river goes down. The river is now rising at the rate of six inches hourly. At Nangwee the whole country is a sheet of water, two or three' feet deep in some places. At Maryborough, a youth was drowned while attempting io swim to an island in the Mary river. The river is now receding. Further landslides are reported at Palm Woods. A landslide damaged the residences of three settlers. Serious slides occurred .among the banana plantations in the Nerang district. Acres of land carrying thousands of bunches of bananas slipped down the mountain side and have been washed into the Nerang river.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 January 1927, Page 5
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