FLOODS IN N.S.W.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 June 1925, Page 5

FLOODS IN N.S.W.

SWEEPING THE COUNTRY.

TOWNS PARTLY SUBMERGED.

t'reuq Association—Electric Telegraph—CopyrigL (Received Monday, 10.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Bay.

Floods,' greater than any experienced hitherto, are sweeping across the lowlying country round the Nepean river and at Goulburn.

The seas are still very rough, and vessels are. unable to leave shelter. At Goulburn the Wollondilly river is running from bank to bank. The police were compelled to rescue isolated people in flood boats.

Queanbeyan, Bungendore and Tarago ■are also submerged in parts. The railway line for three-quarters of a mile over Brcadalbanc plain is covered, but traffic is not yet affected. The river at the waterworks reached a greater height than at any time during the last thirty years. •J. Bavidson, mailman Burra, left Queanbeyan for the mails. Later his horse and sulky were found in the creek. Bavidson is missing, and it is believed that he has been drowned. At Forbes the Lachlan river has risen 17 feet. It is expected that the flood will be equally as great as that of 1923, when it rose to 42 feet. The Nepean river at Camden is twelve feet above the bridge. The river is still rising ten inches an hour. All the lower., reaches round the town are inundated. Four rescue boats were kept busy all day on Sunday rescuing the unfortunate occupiers of homes there.

The latest reports from Penrith state that the position there is ominous. The river is thirty feet above.the safety level, and is rising at the rate of three feet an hour. The town is in danger of a tremendous flood, The cataract dam is overflowing four feet above the spillway into the Nepean. The Hawkesbury river is rising at the rate of three feet per hour. It is feared that the flood will be immeasurably worse than that of a month ago. The bridge at Windsor is submerged to a .depth of. seven feet. Reports from up country state that the rivers are still rising. , The Windsor river has entirely cut off north Richmond. The bridge is under eight feet of water at North Richmond and Kurrajong is cut. off. The police are busily engaged in warnisg residents on the lowlands, and river banks. Large areas of country is submerged. - ■ . . ~ . Telegraphic •communication south or Goulburn is very shaky. The meteorplogsti forecasts further heavy falls of xain, and says that the .prospects of floods in the north-eastern districts are very pronounced. (P:A.)