HAILSTONES KILL SHEEP
VICTORIAN STORM DAMAGE
COMMUNICATION DISLOCATED
MANY HOMES ABANDONED
FLOOD WARNINGS ISSUED
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
Melbourne, Dec. 16.
A storm did heavy damage in Whnmera and portions of the Malee districts. Homes in Maryborough are under water and have been abandoned. Sheep and cattle have been drowned in great numbers, crops destroyed, pastures inundated, railway lines and bridges washed away and telephonic and telegraphic communications dislocated.
Numbers of towns have been thrown into darkness. Flood have been issued at Elmhurst. A flock of sheep in the racecourse reserve were drowned before they could be moved. Miles of fencing- have been washed away.
Maryborough township was flooded in a few minutes. Hailstones of unusual size killed many sheep and. poultry at Gypsum. Seventeen trucks were derailed when sixty chains of railway line were washed out.
Torrential rain is ( still falling in Melbourne.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1930, Page 7
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