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

Floods & storms, 1941

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Marooned Car Trapped By Flood Motorists' Ordeal

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 January 1941 · page 3

Five Goulburn people narrowly escaped drowning when they were forced to sit for three hours on the roof of their small…

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Unsettled with Some Heavy Rain

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 3

FORECAST: Sultry and unsettled, some heavy rain and thundorstorms, with local floodings, at first mainly over the…

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Heavy Rain Still Falling Over the State Best Monsoonal For Years

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Henry rain was still falling over the south-west of New South Wales to-day. The State Moteoroiogist, Mr. Mares,…

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Storms at Dalton Poultry Killed By Hail

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 3 January 1941 · page 2

Severe thunderstorms. with heavy rain followed by a terrific hailstorm, occurred at Dalton on last Tuesday afternoon…

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Storms at Dalton Poultry Killed By Hail

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 6 January 1941 · page 1

thunderstorms, with heavy rain, folowed by a terrific hailstorm, occured at Dalton on Tuesday afternoon last…

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Heavy Rain Falls Again To-day

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 January 1941 · page 2

Ominous looking clouds which made their appearance shortly before noon to-day were followed by a few peals of thunder and…

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Storms Stop Traffic Railway Hangs In Air

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Consequent upon the heavy rain railway traffic has been dislocated in the north-eastern part of the…

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Storm in Goulburn 80 Points In Less Than Hour

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 2

A heavy storm which broke over Goulburn shortly before lunch yesterday yielded 80 points of rain…

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Campers' Escape Flood At Barrallier

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 5

BARRALLIER: Several men and women camped on the banks of the Wollondilly had a remarkable escape when the river came down in flood…

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Baby's Narrow Escape Rescue From Flooded Culvert

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 2

Only quick action by neighbours saved a three-year-old baby girl from probable drowning when it fell into a culvert filled with water in…

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Two Drowned in Floods Devastation In Molong District

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 3

WELLINGTON, Wednesday: Flooded by continuous rain, rivers and creeks have brought death and devastation to the Wellington-Molong-Orange district. An aged woman and her son have been drowned;…

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Floodings Small Centres Isolated

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 January 1941 · page 3

Towrang and Brayton were practically isolated yesterday and again this morning as a result of the Wollondilly River…

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Damage by Floods Isolation Of Some Towns

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 January 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Floods in the northern section of the central area of the State extending towards the north-west plains and north-west…

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Macquarie in Flood Northern Line Hold-Up

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 January 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday: Messages to-day revealed that flood waters of the Macquarie at Dubbo had now moved on to Warren…

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Flood Damage Over £100,000 At Wellington

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Flood damage in the Wellington district is estimated by residents to exceed £100,000. More than 1000 miles of fencing…

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New Flood Threat

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 January 1941 · page 3

More floods on the central and north-western slopes are likely to follow heavy rain which is expected to move east from Central Australia…

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Flood Dangers Water Running In Walcha's Streets Danger Inland Not Over

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Danger of floods on the main north-western inland rivers has increased because more heavy rains are likely on the catchments of these rivers in the next day or two, according to the State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares…

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Terrible Storm In Melbourne Pedestrians Swept Off Feet

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday: At least one person is believed to have been drowned in the city last night when the worst…

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Flood Danger Is Now Past

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Though flood waters which stretched for many miles still surrounded the town of Pilliga, on the north-western…

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Walgett and Flood Waiting For To-night

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday: At 9 a.m. to-day the Barwon River stood at 27ft. 1in., 13 inches higher than it was yesterday at Walgett…

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