GALES AND FLOODS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6279, 25 July 1921, Page 3

GALES AND FLOODS

THROUGHOUT NEW SOUTH WALES

TWO LIVES LOST.

MANY TOWNS INUNDATED

(Australian and N-Z. Cable )

SYDNEY, this day

Heavy rainstorms and gales have swept the city and- coast. .Many cossets have been sheltering, and a number ol northern towns ary threatened with Hoods. A va,-t area of the country is being submerged-. add Gales and Hoods —■ —■ ?

There were extensive Hoods on the north coast on Saturday, L'smore, Mnrwillumhah. Kcmpsey. and Macksvide being inundated. ' Two lives were lost at Murwiilumhah. an-! the damage there is estimated at UCU.OW.

All i ommunication has been out oilpreventing further information coming to hand.

The Ciarence river Durst its hanks ri-ing to twenty-two feet.

North a.nd South Oral tan are parti;.lK Hooded, but the waters generally are receding.