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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1925

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Rain Storms Damage in New Zealand. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 5

Many centres have experienced stormy weather during the past few days. At Te Aroha many buildings were wrecked and milk cans on the railway…

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Disastrous Floods Loss of Life and Property in Korea. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 5

Disastrous floods are reported in West korea owing to rain which has been falling since August 10, resulting in 21 deaths. The railway service at Chinampto and…

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Floods in Korea. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 August 1925 · page 3

A Seoul message says the temporary bridge across the Kanko River was destroyed by floods, interrupting all Seoul-Gensan traffic. Twelve hundred houses…

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Floods in Japan Extensive Damage. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 5

A special message from Nagoya reports serious damage by floods, estimated at ten million yen, including numbers of pottery kilns destroyed. Some casualties…

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Motor Cyclists. Caught in Heavy Storms. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 1

The motor cyclists in the great international test arrived at Swansea from Taunton mad bespattered and bedraggled, having encountered violent thunderstorms…

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Flood Protection at Canberra. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 August 1925 · page 5

Speaking before the Federal Works Committee to-day the Chief Federal Engineer of Works, Mr. Hill, referring to the recent floods about Canberra, said the…

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Floods at Tokio Landslide Causes Serious Accident. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 5

Five persons were seriously injured and ten slightly when a street car overturned into a moat. The accident was due to a landslide caused by heavy rain during a…

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18 Deaths Floods in Japan. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 5

It is officially announced that eighteen lives were lost and nine persons were injured as a result of Wednesday's storm…

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Ships Warned Storm in Tasman Sea. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 September 1925 · page 5

The following warning to shipping has been issued by tee Weather Bureau:--"A cyclonic disturbance has developed over the Tas an Sea with its centre about…

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Thunderstorm

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 2 September 1925 · page 2

A couple of thunderstorms passed over different portions of the district on Sunday. The first one gathered in the vicinity of Tyringham and…

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Flood Protection Carr's Creek & Great Marlow Letter to Drainage Union

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 September 1925 · page 4

Mr. W. L. Leonard, hon, secretary of the Committee for Flood Protection Work, has received a letter from the Public Works Department setting out…

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Caught in Cyclone Changsha Battered Off Coast. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 September 1925 · page 4

The steamer Changsha arrived off Sydney Heads to-day under her own steam. The vessel was knocked about during the cyclonic weather off the North Coast…

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Flood Protection

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 September 1925 · page 4

A meeting of those interested in the formation of a union for the purpose of repairing the present flood embankment at Great Marlow and other places, and…

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Flooded Rivers More Disaster in Japan. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 September 1925 · page 5

Reuter's Osaka (Japan) correspondent states that a heavy rainfall in the Hiroshima and Yama[?]uchi prefectures on Monday resulted in the flooding of the…

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Flood Protection Proposed Union Movement Lack of Support

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 September 1925 · page 6

In the Mayor's parlour, Grafton City Council Chambers, last night a meeting was held of those interested in the formation of a union for the purpose of…

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Violent Storm Damage in Melbourne. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 September 1925 · page 5

A violent cyclone swept over Melbourne and suburbs to-day, causing extensive damage. Houses were wrecked and roofs lifted, while telephone wires and poles…

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Cablegrams. Heavy Storm. Extensive Damage. Shanghai

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 2

A message from Formosa says that a storm on Tuesday flooded-keelung and a hundred houses were inndated. Telephone and telegraph services…

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Floods in Formosa Bridges Washed Away. Shanghai

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 5

News from Formosa states that a storm on Tuesday flooded Keelung. Hundreds of houses were inundated, and the telephone service was interrupted. A number…

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Floods in China Immense Area Affected. Peking

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 5

The south dyke of the Yellow River, Shantung province, has broken at Yung Chenh Sei[?] and the flooded area is 13 miles wide and 65 miles long. The river…

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Ship Wrecked in Storm Six Drowned, 28 Missing Tokio

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 September 1925 · page 3

The Tomashin Maru, with a crew of 34, foundered in a storm off Pescado es. Six were drowned and the remainder are missing…

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