ENORMOUS DAMAGE
DEVASTATING STORMS.
IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
HUGE PROPERTY LOSSES
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copy rigli t.) Received January 23, 11.30 a.m. PERTH, Jan. 23. Continued storms, with heavy rain in the south-western districts, have caused enormous damage. A baby was drowned when a car overturned from an undermined road into a flooded creek.
A cloudburst at Kojonup flooded the surrounding country and houses in the township. A married couple were extricated with ropes from their home, through which 4ft of water was running.
Roads and railways arc awash in the Albany district, where, apart from the flood damage in the town, about £65,000 worth of potato and other crops lias been destroyed. A Kalgoorlie message says that work is being resumed there to-day after the most devastating floods in the history of the field. The total loss over ten days in wages, profits and flood damage is estimated at £1,500,000-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 7
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151ENORMOUS DAMAGE Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 46, 23 January 1939, Page 7
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