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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1919

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A Deluge of Circulars

The Burrowa News · Friday 1 August 1919 · page 5

The policy of sticking to its last is one which is laid upon councils not only as a matter of expediency, but also as a legal obligation…

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Floods in Spain.—Floating Corpses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 2

London, Thursday night.—Reuter's correspondent at Madrid,, telegraphing yesterday, reports that continuous rainstorms have caused serious floods,…

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Floods in Spain. Casualties Unknown. Enormous Damage. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 4 October 1919 · page 2

Reuter's Madrid correspondent reports that the floods in Spain are most disastrous. It is impossible at present to estimate the casualties. Stupendous…

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Heavy Gales. Shipping Delayed. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 13 November 1919 · page 4

Terrific gales are sweeping over the Atlantic and North Sea. Some craft are posted missing, and other shipping is delayed…

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Storm Delays Pickles. BATHURST

Young Witness · Friday 14 November 1919 · page 6

The airmann Pickles, who is making a fight from Broken Hill to Sydney. encountered a thunderstorm at Bathurst, which caused many performations…

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Yesterday's Storm. Light Falls Over Large Area

Young Witness · Friday 14 November 1919 · page 2

Thunder and electric conditions accompanied the storm which passed over the south-western slopes yesterday…

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Airships in Thunderstorms

The Burrowa News · Friday 14 November 1919 · page 4

There is nothing improbable in the suggestion that the airship NS 11, which met with disaster, was struck by lightning. It is true that there is…

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Last Night's Storms

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 November 1919 · page 2

Last night 9 points of rain fell [?] Koorawatha. At Westville, be[?] Cowra, there was a heavy fall. [?] rain fell at Cowra. At Young [?]…

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Disastrous Storm at Yanco

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 November 1919 · page 1
Also in Goulburn Evening Penny Post

A cyclonic storm occurred at Yanco on Saturday. The damage is estimated at £20,000…

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Thunderstorms Likely. Latest Forecast

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 November 1919 · page 2

The Weather Burean issued the following forecast this afternoon:— Fine but hot, an d[?]ing to become cloudy and saltry, with some…

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Earth May Wobble. Mr. Wragge's Prediction Tidal Wars and Storms

The Burrowa News · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 10

Mr. Clement Wragge, the meteorologist, says that the astronomical positions of the s[?] and the [?]…

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Dry Areas Drenched. Heavy Rain in the North. Sydney

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 December 1919 · page 2

Splendid rains are reported. Armidale reports 130 points to mine o'clock today, Barraba 180, Uralla 200. Nice Falls occurred in the…

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Flood of Imports. Australian Goodg Not Preferred. Increased Customs. Melbourne

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 December 1919 · page 2

The Commonwealth Customs rev-entus for the five months ended Nov-ember 30 amounted to [?]100,70£, as against a total of 26,917,761 for the…

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Thunderstorms and Rain. Situation Relieved. Drought Averted. Rains Throughout South-western Slopes

Young Witness · Tuesday 2 December 1919 · page 2

Dams, tnnks and billabongs which had been dried up and had been scooped out, have been replenished and in some cases filled to…

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Devastating Floods. Cootamundra Under Water. Main Streets a Raging Stream. Railway Traffic Completely Suspended. Stock and Haystacks Carried Bodily Away. Police Warning Saves Loss of Life

Young Witness · Friday 5 December 1919 · page 2

Alarning in its suddenness and destructive in its effects, a flood that rapidly developed into one overwhelming wall of water, charged into the town of Cootamundra from the Jindalee Valley last night, crrying everything before [?], and completely getting the whole…

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Terrific Storm. Mail Trains Held Up. Rails Two Feet Under Water

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 December 1919 · page 4

A heavy storm broke between Cunningar and Harden about three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, and both railway lines between those places were…

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Cootamundra Floods

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 6 December 1919 · page 2

Cootamundra, Friday.—The flood waters began to recede last night about 6.80, after getting within a foot of the disaster ous visitation nearly seventeen years ago…

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The Hills of Storms

The Yass Courier · Monday 8 December 1919 · page 5

As alone on the hills of storms I stand. Amid sccues that are wild and black, 1 look around for a lifting hand,…

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£2000 Damage in Storm

Young Witness · Friday 19 December 1919 · page 5

LISMORE, Friday.—Damage to the extent of £2000 was caused at the establishment of A. G. Robertson, Ltd. as the result of a violent…

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