SERIOUS FLOODS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 5

SERIOUS FLOODS.

IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

HOUSES SUBMERGED. tress AssociatioD-Electric Telecraph-Copyrigt' SYDNEY, Tuesday. Over ten thousand acres of flat country near Windsor arc covered by flood waters as the result of the Hawkesburyriver breaking its banks. Damage to crops is very heavy.

Stock has been removed to higher levels. The river is 26ft. above summer level, and is still rising. Roads are blocked, bridges being under water.

The State Meteorologist says that floods are likely on all coastal rivers, as further heavy falls are expected.

The floods in tho Windsor and Richmond districts have driven scores of people from their homes, which are submerged from three to fifteen feet. Furniture is floating everywhere, and vegetable crops have disappeared.—A. and N.Z. P.A. TWO LIVES LOST. (Received Wednesday, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. After having reached a critical level, the flood water in the Hawkesbury commenced to recede. Farmers estimate their losses to crops at £25,000.. The floods have taken two lives. The body of a boy of three years of age was recovered by the police in ten feet of water at Tentcrfield, and the body of a man from a creek. —A. and N.Z. P.A.