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

Floods & storms, 1937

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Streets Scoured by Storm

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 November 1937 · page 7

Municipal Council employees have been busy during the last two days in frecing the gutters and drains of gravel, saud and…

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Warmer Days with Storms

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 November 1937 · page 5

Forecast: Unsettled, with further rain and some thunder developing up the North Coast, with squally southerly winds and rising seas;…

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Heavy Storm on Saturday Night Inch of Rain in Half an Hour

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 November 1937 · page 3

The weather on Saturday last was sultry and the humidity of the heat culminated in a heavy storm about 8 p.m. on…

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Storms All Round But Fine for School Picnic

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 November 1937 · page 2

Favoured remarkably by the weather in that storms broke all round but missed Breadalbane all day, the annual picnic arranged…

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Cyclone Hits Dubbo Boy's Narrow Escape

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 16 November 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Arthur Budge, aged 9, of Dubbo, had a narrow escape front death yesterday during the terrific cyclone, when he clung…

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Storms Around City Hail Damages The Gardens In Some Parts Patchy Rain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 22 November 1937 · page 5

Heavy hall damaged flower and vegetable gardens at Chatsbury on Saturday and hall was also reported from Kingsdale and…

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Floods in North Traffic Is Disorganised

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 November 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The downpours of the week-end were followed by a number of local floodings, which, caused losses to farmers, Fences, and…

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Severe Storm

The Burrowa News · Friday 3 December 1937 · page 7

A severe hailstorm was experienced at Hovell's Creek. It was accompanied by thunder and lightning. It rose the creek above the banks in…

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Wild Storm at Manly

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A terrific storm was experienced over Manly and Narrabeen districts to-day Lightning struck a tree on the Pittwater…

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Black Out Parts Of City In Darkness During Storm Back to Candles and Lanterns

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 5

Parts of Goulburn were plunged into darkness for almost two hours last night through a breakdown in…

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Welcome Storms at Laggan

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 3

Laggan: A succession of heavy storms at the week-end yielded 191 points of rain. It came at an opportune time, as grass was…

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Recent Storms District Conditions For Stock

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 3

A sharp thunderstorm broke over Goulburn on Tuesday night, but, although the sky gave every indication of a heavy downpour,…

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Warm, But Storms Later

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 6

Forecast: At first isolated thunderstorms on the coast; otherwise temporarily fine, warm to hot and sultry, with freshening strong to squally…

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Storm Damage

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 14 December 1937 · page 2

In a letter to Thursday night's meeting of the Gouburn City Council, Mrs. A. E. Scott, of Eleanor Street, East Goulburn, drew…

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A Recurring Problem Why Not a Flood-proof Fence

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 4

Not least among the items of loan resulting from the floods which periodically lay waste many low-lying rural districts is that represented by…

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Lands Flooded by Waterworks Letter From Mr. W. T. Merriman

The Burrowa News · Friday 24 December 1937 · page 1

The following letter from Elrington & Elrington, solicitors, Yass, on behalf of Mr. W. T. Merriman, was read at the Council meeting last…

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Rain with Thunderstorms

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 28 December 1937 · page 5

Forecast: More or less unsettled weather generally with rain; occasionally with some thunderstorms, possible hall and isolated…

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Violent Storms Break in and Around Goulburn Telephones Out of Order

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 December 1937 · page 5

A violent thunderstorm, one of several which broke in and around Goulburn and district yesterday afternoon, was at its height in the city a few minutes before 3 o'clock. A particularly vivid flash struck…

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Soaking Falls Series of Storms Yesterday Inch of Rain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 30 December 1937 · page 4

Another series of heavy storms broke over Goulburn and parts of the surrounding district yesterday afternoon…

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Violent Storm at Gundaroo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 1

GUNDAROO: A severe electrical storm struck the town on Wednesday afternoon, leaving a trail of damage in its wake…

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