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

Floods & storms, 1945

52 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 2 of 3

Obituary Mrs. Flood

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 April 1945 · page 2

The death of Mrs. Flood took place suddenly at her residence Epping on Wednesday. April 4. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and…

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Bringing Milk to Goulburn When Rivers Are in Flood

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 April 1945 · page 3

All other mean of egress from the flooded country on the far South Coast being closed against him, Doug. Grice, driver of a Taralga Dairy Company's motor lorry, arrived at the Moss Vale milk depot on Wednesday…

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From Everywhere Deluge in Sydney

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 2

Many Sydney suburbs were deluged by rain last night and there were a number of registrations of two inches…

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Flood Levels Records To Be Kept

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 May 1945 · page 4

The Goodradigbee Shire Council decided to cc-operate with the Main Roads Department in keeping a record of flood levels…

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Wild Gale in Sydney Manly Ferry Damaged

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 May 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: At the height of the storm which swept Sydney early this morning the Manly ferry. Dee Why, which…

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Five Young Doctors Missing at Sea Launch Caught in Storm Off Coast North of Sydney

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY: The 42ft. launch Robin May," with six young Sydney medical graduates aboard, was wrecked in the gale which swept the coast early yesterday. One of the graduates, Dr. Ian…

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Gunning Shire Council Hall Rents — Flood Levels Hockey and Football Clubs

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 24 May 1945 · page 1

At the meeting of the Gunning Shire Council on Saturday last the president (Dr. W. M. Barbour) was in the chair. Also present were…

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Flood Damage to Oallen Bridge

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 8 June 1945 · page 1

Reporting to the Mulwaree Shire Council at its meeting on Tuesday the Engineer. M. H. B. Darke, said, that the recent flood in the Shoalhaven River severely damaged the apron on the downstream side on the Nerriga…

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Floods in North Cyclone With Rain

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 June 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Torrential rain ever the last 48 hours has given rise to serious floods in the far north coastal areas…

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Two Ships Ashore Violent Gale on Coast

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 June 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: The six survivors of the 76-ton freighter "Coweambah", which was wreeked off South Rocks,…

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Floods Take Toll of Life Mother and Four Children Among Those Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 June 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: After their home on the Richmond River near Casino was flooded yesterday, following torrential rains which swept the far North Coast over the week-end, a mother and her four children were…

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Storm's Toll Camden May Be Cut Off

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 June 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY: Sydney's toll of deaths and accidents as a result of the storm has doubled in the past 24 hours and now stands at…

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Lismore Hit by the Floods £1,000,000 in Damage WATER 15 Ft. Deep in Shopping Centre

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 June 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: There have been no further reports of drownings in the flood-bound areas of the North Coast, but thousands of people have become stranded or homeless as a result of the flood conditions…

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Moruya Is Isolated by Flood Waters Two - Thirds of Lismore Now Homeless SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 June 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: When the Moruya River broke its banks on the South Coast early to-day Moruys, a township of about 1000 people, was completely cut off by water. The only means of communication with…

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Number of Families in Danger Hundreds of Farmers Marooned by Floods in North

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 June 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: The safely of a number of families at Bora Creek, south of Lismore, has been jeopardised following the failure of the attempted rescue by amphibious jeeps. Heavy seas have amashed…

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Huge Collection of Thugs Storm Troopers Receive Dose of Own Medicine

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 June 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Ten thousand members of the Storm Troopers, greatest collection of thugs Sin history, and concentrated, behind the electrically-charged barbed wire in the once notorious…

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Winter Comes in with a Wild Gale Crookwell and Taralga Snow Give Edge to the Wind

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 3

Goulburn experienced one of the wildest nights for some time last night when a 50 m.p.h. gale, accompanied by thick dust, culminated in heavy rain at 2 a.m. It was still raining heavily at 4 a.m. and was bitterly…

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Flood at Lismore Struggle to Produce Newspaper Grim Conditions

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 June 1945 · page 4

Among the grim stories of the devastating floods that swept the northern towns is that of production of the “Northern…

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Cyclone Moves Out to Sea

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 17 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Theo cyclonic disturbance which has been causing coastal rain during the past few days has now moved out to sea,…

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Heavy Rain 60 Pts. Last Night

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 August 1945 · page 2

With the 60 points of rain which fell in heavy showers last night one and a half inches of rain have been registered for…

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