RAIN IN AUSTRALIA
FURTHER FLOODS LIKELY LARGE AREAS INUNDATED SYDNEY, Juno 24. Floods are again likely to assume serious proportions in the central and southern inland rivers as the result of further heavy rains. All of the roads in the Urana « strict are impassable, owing to flood waters from the Lockhard causing the water supply dam to overflow. Alen arc employed day and night in keeping the whole structure from washing away. About 20,060 acres of soldiers’ settlement land is covered to a depth of two to eight feet. The Alurray 'overflowed its banks at Albury. The whole wheat belt ii. the Eastern Riverina is affected. Ganmain is expecting the biggest flood in years. The huge Burrunjuck dam is filled to the utmost capacity.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 7
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124RAIN IN AUSTRALIA Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 7
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