QUEENSLAND FLOODS
FOLLOW A CYCLOXI
20 INCHES OF RAIN
(Australian Press Association.)
(Received this day at 10 15 a.m.) BRISBANE, January 19.
Twenty inches of rain were registered at Bab:tula in forty-eight hours, the cause being a cyclone over 'the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpuitaria. 'I he .JolmsUme river which is hi high flood broke its banks, flooding the countryside. Some sugar farms are thirty fed under, a number of houses being submerged -ind business places are threatened. 'file river rose ten feet, in Ike hours. All 1 radio ill the district. is suspended. Many people left I heir homes rather than spend a n'.ght
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1932, Page 5
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