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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1931

223 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 12

Rivers Overflow Melb. Express Held Up Passengers Marooned Record Flood Feared in Riverina. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 25 June 1931 · page 5

A message received in Sydney this morning stated that the Melbourne express was held up near Henty where the flood waters are said to be about…

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Big Floods 'Bidgee And Lachlan Serious at Wagga Hundreds of People Driven From Homes. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 June 1931 · page 5

There is a possibility of the Murrumbidgee flood exceeding the disastrous inundation of 1925. All roads leading from the town are now…

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Storms in U.S. Middle West Suffers Many Deaths. Chicago

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 5

A blast of withering heat, accompanied in various sections by floods and cloudbursts and terrific electrical storms, struck the mid-western States. Deaths…

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Sleuthing the World's Storms Aid for Air Pilots in Peril How Radio Rules the Waves. London, May 14

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 2

Radio may soon be used to trace the source of every thunderstorm in progress within two or three thousand miles of the observer. If this hope is realised,…

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The Floods [?]aters Now Subsiding [?]Armers Badly Hit [?]Cenes of Desolation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 June 1931 · page 5

Floods in southern and central inland districts have passed the critical stage. Rivers are now falling in the south…

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Flood Fears Murray and Murrumbidgee Weather Bureau Warning. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1931 · page 4

Further floods are feared' in the catchment areas of the Murray and Murrumbidgee. The Weather Bureau issued a…

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Sulky Washed Away Old Man Drowned in Flood. Eugowra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1931 · page 4

David Holt, 71, lost his life when tin sulky he was driving was washed away in the flood waters at North Bangaroo. Holt at first did not, appear to be in…

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Fire and Flood Business Block Threatened Jerilderie's [?]Light. Denili[?]uin

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1931 · page 4

An extremely critical condition was experienced at Jerilderie city this morning. With flood waters mensing the residential area and gradually inverging on the…

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Inland Floods Danger Now Easing Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 3 July 1931 · page 2

It is reported that the flood danger in inland districts is easing with the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Lachlan Rivers receding…

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Flood Thrills Marooned In A Tree Rescue Boats Capsize Rope Stretched From Tree to Bank. Condobolin

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 July 1931 · page 5

When a rowing boat overturned in the Lachlan River yesterday A. Caldecott, licensee of the Imperial Hotel, and R. Flood, managed to cling…

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Heavy Gale in Sydney

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1931 · page 2

A heavy gale struck Sydney on Sunday night and lasted throughout yesterday. The wind blew at cyclonic force, up to 64 miles an hour, and…

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60 M.P.H. Storm In Sydney Central and South Coasts Floods Expected Damage in City and Suburbs. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1931 · page 5

A violent gale swept Sydney and suburbs during the night and this morning. Shortly before 9 this morning the…

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Flood at Hay River Six Miles Wide. Hay

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1931 · page 5

The Murrumbidgee River at Hay has reached a record height, and in places is six miles Wide. The river is still rising. The town is being barricaded against…

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The Storm Shipping Held Up Nearly Eight Inches of Rain Cyclone Leaving the Coast. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 July 1931 · page 4

Not one of the suburbs of Sydney escaped damage in yesterday's severe storm. Hundreds of houses and business premises were unroofed or had verandahs…

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Recent Storm Damage Estimated at £200,000. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 5

The Weather Bureau reported to-day that the cyclone had moved away, from the New South Wales coast, and there was no danger of further heavy or flood…

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Tea Cup Storm In House Of Reps Messrs. Anstey and Corser Member for Wide Bay Suspended Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 4

There was a scene in the House, of Representatives to-night, the outcome of which was the suspension of Mr. Corser (C.P., Wide Bay), for the rest of the…

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Lake Urana Flooded Townspeople Become Alarmed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 July 1931 · page 5

During the week-end officials of the Water Conservation Department visited Urana in connection with the flooded Urana lake. Residents of the town were…

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Jerilderie Floods Dangers Of Banked Waters Breaches in Cocketgedong Dam Men Fighting for Lives Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 July 1931 · page 4

The flood position at Jerilderic was improved this morning, but if the waters in Lake Urana are released, the water will again rise to the peak level of last week…

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Costly Storm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 4

The clothes of guests at the Royal garden party at Hollywood Palace, Edinburgh, are estimated to have cost. £100,000, and the damage caused to them…

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Southern Floods the Worst Over Much Damage to Roads. Jerilderie

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 July 1931 · page 5

Flood danger in the Urana, Jerilderie and Moulamein districts now appears to be over. The water released from the…

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