QUEENSLAND FLOODS
AT HIGH LEEVEL,
TOWNS ISOLATED. (Received Wednesday, 9.10 a.m.) BRISBANE, This Day. The north Queensland floods have reached the highest level for eighteen years. Miles of sugar cane land is submerged. Cairns is isolated, except by sea, and business is at a standstill there also at Townsville and Innisfail. A girl was drowned near Innisfail. Boats are pliyng at the latter place. The rain has now ceased but cyclonic conditions prevail and high winds are ravaging the whole of the northern coast, working down to New South Wales.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1932, Page 5
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