MAIL AND LIGHTING TOLL

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 25 January 1933, Page 9

MAIL AND LIGHTING TOLL

Damage In New South Wales SERIOUS LOSSES OF STOCK Valuable Horses Killed MANY WINDOWS SMASHED WATER TANKS PERFORATED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 12.30 p.m to-day. SYDNEY, Jan. 25. Railway communication with the South Coast was resumed at midnight, use being made of a single-track in the damaged sections. Washouts are still delaying traffic with the North Coast and other systems and the Mossvnle — Oort Kembla line is still closed. Serious fosses of sheep,- cattle, pigs and poultry are reported from country centres. A number of valuable horses were killed by lightning at Uarellan. Terrifying hailstorms and a cyclonic wind at Narrabri smashed hundreds of windows. Huge hailstones also perforated water tanks.

QUEENSLAND AREAS FLOODED BREAKING OF DRY SPELL. MORE RAIN NEEDED IN PARTS. Received 1 p.m. to-day. BRISBANE, Jan. 25. Though the Condamine River has fallen the water is still over the railway at Pampas. Pilot Brain, a Quantas airman, reports he flew through a storm from Alice Springs to Longreach. Much of the e-round was covered with water. A dry spell was broken bv a heavy thunderstorm in the south-west districts, but further rain is needed to save Winton farms from a desperate plight.