MENACED BY FLOODS
TOWNS IN VICTORIA DEVASTATING INLAND SEA MELBOURNE. Dec. 5. The town of Pyramid Hill, 55 miles northward of Bendigo, is imperilled by rushing flood waters in two huge bodies, one being 14 miles wide and 3ft. deep. This devastating inland sea is expected to reach Pyramid Hill late this afternoon. Men have been working feverishly to save tlie place by throwing up sandbag embankments, but, latest messages indicate that these will be useless. Furniture has been removed to the tops of houses and shops. Mologa, a hamlet in the middle of the Loddon watershed, is inundated, and many houses are awash. Outlying farms with irrigation systems are hurriedly deepening their central channels, but this is not likely to divert the water.
A 14-mile flood from Serpentine Creek and Lanceeoorte weir has already covered the villages of Canary Island, Durham Ox and Yando. Farmers hereabouts are unable to find refuge for their stock owing to the level nature of the country.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18264, 6 December 1933, Page 7
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163MENACED BY FLOODS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18264, 6 December 1933, Page 7
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