AUSTRALIAN FLOODS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18310, 29 July 1921, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN FLOODS

FLOOD WATERS RECEDING

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE.

MAXV SENSATIONAL ESCAPES.

Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 28. (Received July 28, at 7.50 p.m.) As the floods in the northern rivers recede the reports from, the outlying districts, previously cut off by the flood waters, show that the losses of stock and crops and the damage generally are very serious and widespread. Much suffering was endured by tbe marooned people, and many sensational escapes are recorded. In a number of cases houses were washed away bodily. , The people in the flooded townships are now busilv cleaning up the deep mud which was deposited, in the streets and houses, removing the debris, including dead aniipals. and righting many houses winch were shifted from their foundations.