EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN
Road and Railway Damaged N.S.W. HOUSES FLOODED (Received 16, 11.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 16. A fierce storm, yielding up to eight inches of rain in some localities, swept over a large area of the southern tablelands and the south coast. Houses were flooded aud residents used boats to enter and leave their hemes in Dapto, where the water was Severn 1 . feet deep in the main streets. The main south coast railway was seriously damaged, and the Pacific highway, the main road to Melbourne, is impassable, three bridges in the Nowra district having been washed away. Hundreds of motorists were marooned.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 80, 16 March 1936, Page 7
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105EIGHT INCHES OF RAIN Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 80, 16 March 1936, Page 7
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