AUSTRALIAN NEWS
WKI.COME RAIN IX N.S.W. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, August 25. There lias been a week of drenching rain. This .has ensured two years’ water supply for the metropolitan area, And lias resulted in the lifting of the water restrictions. Flooding is now reported from Mossvale. Bowral, Mittagong, two southern slopes of ,the,. Blue Mountains, and .along I’the Nepean River, thirty miles „ south of Sydney, where t the residents .'are j'hei’ng ' warned to move to bighej- grourtd. . j* Splendid rains also reported !n t all oL the wheat and pastoral. areas S throughout the State.
B Y-iSLEOTION TO BE RECONTESTED. (Received this day at 1.0 SYDNEY. ..August 26. Air Justice Maxwell, in the Court of Disputed Returns, granted the(,. petition of Mr \V. C. Milne to Gordon polling in the last State Selection declared void on the ground- of irregularities regarding, postal votes. Mr H. B. Turner, who bad been* declared elected by. a majority': of nine votes, and Air Aliine will ’|gain contest the by-election as United Australia Party candidate. ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1938, Page 5
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