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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1921

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Gales in Tasmania. Dam Swept Away. Waimui Returns to Port. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 July 1921 · page 5

Further reports of the gales in Tasmania show that at Bridport the jetty was badly damaged and the schooner Rahra blown ashore. All the crew a safe…

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Floods in the West. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1921 · page 2

The Barwon River has reached a height of 30ft 5ins. at Brewarrina, and the water is now spreading into the town…

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European Storm Centre Position in Silesia. Britain Opposes French View. London

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 22 July 1921 · page 3

A message Paris says the "Petit Journal" states that the British reply to the French note contests the necessity for sending reinforcements…

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Wild Weather Another Flood Threatened Continued Heavy Rain. Rivers Rising. Further Storms Predicted

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 4

The rain which has been threatening for some days, and which started with light falls on Thursday, has grown steadily worse. Throughout…

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Another Storm Coming Sydney, Friday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 4

Mr. J. D. Mares, state Meteorologist, stated this afternoon that another heavy storm was due on the east coast by to-morrow. The barometer was…

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General Rain. Falling Throughout the District Gales on the Coast. Steady Rise in the River

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 4

There was a variation in the generally unseasonable weather which has prevailed in the district, throughout this winter when early on Thursday morning the sky…

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Another Flood

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 2

Torrential rains have fallen over the greater part of the Coast. From 9 on Thursday up to about 8.30 on Friday, 811 points fell on the…

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Floods on the Warrego. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 4

The State Meteorologist has, received from the Commonwealth Meteorologist in Melbourne a message stating that the flood waters on the Warrego have now…

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Floods in Victoria. Sydney, Friday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 23 July 1921 · page 4

The State Meteorologist at Sydney, Mr. J. D. Mares, to-day received a wire from Melbourne stating that the flood waters of the Warrego had now…

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Heavy Rain at Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 6

Boisterous weather has prevailed along the North Coast, and heavy rain has fallen. Eleven inches were recorded at Dorrigo. Extensive damage has been caused to the…

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The Storm. Northern Rivers Overflow

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 2

In Coffs Harbor the result of the week-end deluge was an isolated town. There was feeble 'phone connection (at times!) with an…

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Gale at Newcastle. Fierce Rain Squalls. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 6

The heavy wind of yesterday increased to vale force during the night, and to-day there were constant squalls of a velocity of between 60 and 70 miles an hour, with…

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Maclean. a Terrific Gale. Trees Uprooted. Roof Detached. Saturday Morning

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 6

Heavy rain, accompanied with high wind again set in early Friday evening, and continuing all through the night, culminated at 3.30 o'clock Saturday morning in…

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The Storm. Terrific Rain. 25 Inches in 50 Hours

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 2

A real cyclonic disturbance struck Dorrigo on Friday night last. Towards daylight On Saturday the wind blew with almost terrifying fury, and…

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A Cyclone That Didn't Arrive. Heavy Weather at Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 7

The weather experts both in"Sydney and Melbourne were greatly perturbed, to-day in regard to the boisterous spell ahead on the New South Wales coast and the…

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Bellinger in Flood

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 6

For the forth time this year Bellinger River is in flood. Rain set in on Friday, and up to 9 a.m. four and a half inches had been recorded…

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How the Flood Came

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 5

Except to the few that had experienced floods at Grafton the waters, rose at an almost Incredible rate, but they came by a different way than the floods of past…

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The Flood Subsides

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 5

The mighty torrent which had rageds past Grafton on Sunday, eased apprecisbly on Monday and was steadily creeping back to normal yesterday. With the…

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Bourke Threatened with Flood. Bourke

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 7

Bourke is menaced by floods. The river is 34ft. 10in. high, and reports to hand from the river, stations are disquieting. The Macquarie waters are reported to have…

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The Flood

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 July 1921 · page 4

The great flood that has devastated the whole North Coast and many other parts of the State is anothe lesson as to the difficulties and obstacles that beset…

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