FLOODS CAUSE HAVOC.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1925, Page 5

FLOODS CAUSE HAVOC.

WATER COVERS WIDE AREA ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE. , MORE RAIN FEARED. N.S.W. SUFFERS AGAIN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received June 22, 8.15 p.m. Sydney, June 22. Practically the whole State is flooded, causing greater havoc than for the past twenty-five years. There is enormous damage over wide areas, but the waters ®re now receding. Penrith is now out of danger. Windsor and Richmond are cut off from Sydney toy road, the flooded waters in places being twenty feet deep. The body of J. Davidson, a mail contractor, and a well-known grazier, of Queanbeyan, was found near the Burra Creek. He was swept firofn a sulky While crossing the creek. Although the waters are receding in tnany districts the weather bureau has Issued a further flood warning, forecasting additional heavy rain. RESCUE OF SETTLERS. At Goulburn the Wollondilly River Is running bank high. The police were compelled to rescue isolated people in flood boats. Queanbeyan, Bungendore and Tarago were also submerged in parts. The railway line for threequarters of a mile over the Breadallane plain is covered, but traffic is not yet affected. The river at the waterworks reached a greater height than at any time during the last thirty years. At Forbes the Lachlan River has risen 17 feet. It is expected that the flood will be as great as that of 1923, when it rose to 42 feet. The Nepean at Camden is twelve feet above the bridge, the river is still rising ten inches All the lower reaches round the town are inundated, and four rescue parties were kept busy all day on Sunday rescuing the unfortunate occupiers of homes there. RIVERS RISE QUICKLY. yiie Hawkesbury River is rising at the rate of three feet an hour, and it is feared the flood will be immeasurably worse than that of a month ago. The bridge at Windsor is submerged to a depth of seven feet. Reports from up country state that the river is still rising, and Windsor is entirely cut off. The North Richmond bridge is under eight feet of water at North Richmond, and Kurrajong is cut off. The police are busily engaged warning residents on the low-lands and river banks. Large areas of country arc submerged, and telegraphic communication south of Goulburn is very •haky. The meteorologist forecasts further heavy falls of rain, and says that prospects of floods in the north-eastern districts are very pronounced. THRILLING RESCUES. The river at Forbes continues to rise and it is feared that by to-morrow most of the town will be under water. Parts of Cowra are already inundated, and residents are removing their goods to the higher levels. A Chinaman, in attempting to cross a flooded area, was drowned. Although there were many thrilling rescues in the flooded districts so far onlv two fatalities have been reported. The Canterbury Park races have been abandoned.