Macleay recalls its greatest flood disaster

By Jamie Brown
July 15 2017 - 7:00am
A photo reproduced in a souvenir edition of the Macleay Argus showing an Army duck towing the carcases of drowned cattle down river for a proper burial. Photo courtesy Macleay River Historical Society.
A photo reproduced in a souvenir edition of the Macleay Argus showing an Army duck towing the carcases of drowned cattle down river for a proper burial. Photo courtesy Macleay River Historical Society.

Slim dusty, the one-time yodeler from Nulla Nulla, recorded a time in the mid 1940s when winter on the Macleay brought floods –  each one so large it seemed the last would never be repeated.

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