SERIOUS FLOODS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 1 August 1922, Page 5

SERIOUS FLOODS

DISASTROUS SITUATION

WAGGA WAGGA CUT OF

( BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—CO! i'IUOKI { SYDNEY, July :u. \ Flood waters are still pouring ii;tr. ! Wagga Wagga business houses and tiro j main business centre is carrying up to | four feet of water. Sandbags u:\- ijaia^ j used in a futile endeavour to li^c-p \lm water out. The Murrumbidgee river has now risen thirty feet, and there are iiiciitations that a tremendous body of water has yet to come down. The township i of North Wagga Wagga is entirely cut i off, and the surrounding country sub- i J merged, causing heavy losses in stock j i and crops. j I The situation is disastrous, and ; ! threatens to rival in magnitude the big j i flood of 1900. j

Wagga Wagga is situated on the;' bank of the Murrumbidgee. 73 miles } from Albury. The population is about ] six thousand. ■