RAINS IN AUSTRALIA.

Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1933, Page 2

RAINS IN AUSTRALIA.

SERIOUS FLOODS FOLLOW DROUGHT. man drowned in swollen RIVER. SYDNEY, April 0. Soaking rains over the greater part of the State benefited the wheat areas and pastoral lands, which have been parched for a long' period, but while farmers and graziers are jubilant, residents on the banks of the far north coast rivers are entertaining fears of serious floods. The Weather Bureau has issued warnings that heavy floods are expected, particularly in the Richmond and Tweed River districts. The Tweed overflowed its banks last night, inundating large areas of low-lying land. The Brunswick is also in flood, and low-lying areas off Coff’s Harbour are under water. Washaways caused the derailment of the locomotive of the North Coast Mail. There are also serious wash-outs on the Moss Vale and Port Kcmbla line. The Newcastle police report that the Hunter River is rising rapidly. Heavy rain has fallen in Sydney for the past week. Torrential falls were recorded in Queensland. Wooclford registered eleven inches in twenty-four hours, and at Mitehell, where families were forced to vacate their homes, thirteen inches fell in two days. Hundreds of head of cattle have been lost, and fencing and other property damaged. William Mitchell (21), attempting to cross a flooded bridge at Kilcoy in a sulky, was swept away and drowned.