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

Floods & storms, 1938

124 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 5 of 7

Cricket in Wales Storm Puts End to Play

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 August 1938 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: A gloriously fine and hot Bank Holiday, one of the few glimpses of summer the Australians have…

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Chinese Attack Jap. Flank Dykes Cut—Large Areas Are Flooded SHANGHAI

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 3 August 1938 · page 5

Japan has despatched 30,000 reinforcements to strengthen the advance on Hankow. Resuming their advance they…

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Wild Storm Leaves Trail of Destruction

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 5 August 1938 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: A thunderstorm of exceptional intensity, moving slowly over southern England from west to east left a trail of…

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Unsettled with Heavy Rain

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 August 1938 · page 4

Forecast: Cloudy and unsettled generally, with heavy rain; some heavy falls likely in southern and eastern areas; conditions…

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Storms Rage in N. Zealand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 August 1938 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Cyclonic disturbances still continue to rage in New Zealand, and many towns are isolated…

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Chalet Burnt Kosciusko Fire Guests Escape in Snow Storm

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 11 August 1938 · page 3

The Chalet, Australia's greatest winter resort, was totally destroyed by fire early on Monday morning. Within two hours after the alarm, the…

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Heavy Storm Tropical Fall Early This Morning

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 15 August 1938 · page 5

A heavy storm broke over Goulburn before daybreak this morning and at 9 o'clock the rainfall for the past 24 hours totalled…

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Thunderstorm

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 August 1938 · page 2

There was a thunderstorm, followed by very heavy rain, which sounded like hail, in the early hours this morning, but which did not last long…

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Deluge Over Whole District Rivers In Flood: Graziers Hit

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 August 1938 · page 4

Both the Mulwaree and Wollondilly Rivers are in flood, and all low-lying land in and around Goulburn is inundated as a result of the 387 points of rain received during the…

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Floods Receding Anxious Time Yesterday

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 26 August 1938 · page 7

An inch of rain fell in Goulburn yesterday, following the storm which resulted in the flooding of the Wollondilly and…

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Goulburn Lashed by Gales

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 29 August 1938 · page 5

Following the drenching rains of last week, resulting in the flooding of the two rivers, gales buffeted Goulburn over the week-end,…

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Storm Does Damage

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 29 August 1938 · page 2

The stormy weather on Saturday night did some damage in parts of the district. At Otterbourne a cyclonic gale swept a strip of…

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Gallant Rescue Boy Saved In Flooded Mulwaree SWEPT 200 YARDS

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 29 August 1938 · page 1

On Friday afternoon, shortly before 4 o'clock, George Withers, aged 8, was playing with other children…

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Missed Death in Flood Man Marooned For Two Days

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 29 August 1938 · page 5

BARRALLIER: After a narrow escape from drowning in a flooded creek, Joseph Sewell, 28, was marooned in a hut for two days and nights…

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Storms in Canada Several Persons Are Killed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 7

PORT NEUF (Quebec, Canada), Thursday: A fireman and an engineer, were killed when the C.P.R. night express was derailed as the result of a…

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Mulwaree In Flood

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 2 September 1938 · page 3

Sir: The recent flooding of the eastern section of the river flat makes one wonder what could be done at reasonable expense to prevent a…

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Storm Damage in Goulburn Officer's Report To Council

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 12 September 1938 · page 1

Reporting to Thursday night's meeting of the Goulburn City Council, the City Engineer, Mr. A. Lavercombe, stated that he had…

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Fear Alternates With Hope During Week-End In Europe Waiting on Nuremberg No War Fever In Germany ? Hope Is Not Yet Given Up But Storm Troopers Truculent

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 12 September 1938 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: Fear altenated hope during the tense week-end while the chancelleries of Europe anxiously await Hitler's speech at the concluding session of the…

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Hoarding Blown Down Friday Night's Violent Gale

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 19 September 1938 · page 2

Several persons had remarkable escapes from injury when a big hoarding and a large quantity of brickwork was blown off…

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Has Flood Started? More Minorities Make Demands

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 21 September 1938 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday: Important developments connected with the demand of Poland and Hungary for the…

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