HEAVY SNOW IN N.S.W
COUNTRY TOWNS ISOLATED AN INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. SYDNEY, Aug. 6. Heavy snowfalls in many parts of the State continue to disorganise communications. Adaminaby, on the southern high lands, a town with 900 people, is isolated. An influenza epidemic is raging there, and the town has no doctor or chemist. This is the first time the dis trict, has been without a doctor, and the townspeople are appealing to the Government to appoint a medical man. The township of Kiandra is also cut off, the main street being under twelve feet of snow. Recent heavy rains have caused serious flooding in the South Gippsland and Moe districts in Victoria.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19350807.2.49
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 183, 7 August 1935, Page 7
Word Count
111HEAVY SNOW IN N.S.W Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 183, 7 August 1935, Page 7
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.