SHORT OF FOOD.
QUEENSLAND SETTLERS’ PLIGHT. AFTERMATH OF FLOOD. ,tY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11 a.m. to-day. BRISBANE, Feb. 7. Such extensive damage was caused on the Etheridge railway, extending from Almaoen, in the Cairns district, to Forsyth, a distance of 142- miles, by the recent floods that the Minister of Railways is considering the advisability of permanently closing the line. The inhabitants of the district- are in an alarming condition owing to the shortage of food supplies, which the Railway Department is now sending hv road.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 February 1927, Page 5
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