FLOODS THREATEN TO HARM HOSPITAL
WENTWORTH FAMILIES SHELTER IN TOWN GAOL. United Ffess Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received August 5, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 5. With the hospital, picture theatre and dwellings in Wentworth, at the junction of the Darling and Murray Rivers, protected by embankments holding back several feet of water, the town resembles a series of islands in a vast expanse of flood waters. The hospital is in great danger. It has been decided to abandon it and 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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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 184, 5 August 1931, Page 1
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