STILL RISING
DARLING AND MURRAY RIVER CONDITIONS AT WENTWORTH HOSPITAL ABANDONED (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received sth August, 9.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. With the hospital, picture theatre and dwellings in Wentworth at the junction of the Darling and the Murray rivers protected by embankments holding back several feet'of water, the town resembles a scries of islands in a vast expanse of flood waters. The hospital is in great danger, it has been decided to abandon it, and to remove the patients to Mildura. Residents worked continuously for five days and nights building levees to keep the rivers back. Many families are sheltering in the gaol. The waters are still rising.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 August 1931, Page 5
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113STILL RISING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 5 August 1931, Page 5
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