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

Floods & storms, 1946

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Tallaganda Shire £4000 Offered to Assist Flood Damage Repair

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 2

Tallaganda Shire Council met last Thursday when the only absentee was Cr. Byrne for whom an apology was received. Council endorsed an application…

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Devastation by Storm Reaches £100,000

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: With the return of fine weather in Sydney to-day, the Weather Bureau believes that the cyclonic disturbance which has…

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ONLY 16 POINTS Last Night's Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 5

Heralded by vivid flashes of lightning which lit up the southern skies, a thunderstorm accompanied by strong winds and…

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Cyclone Storm Sweeps Portion of District Trees Flattened and Smashed Buildings Damaged

Yass Tribune-Courier · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 2

What is described by local residents as the most severe cyclone they had experienced, swept portion of the…

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Violent Thunder Storm Seventy Points Fall In Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 5

Seventy points of rain fell in Goulburn yesterday as a result of the violent storm which struck about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Lasting about an hour the storm which was of an…

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Big Flood in Spain Houses Collapse

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 4

MADRID. Wednesday: Floodwaters from the Segura River Inundated the cities of Alquenias and Santa Cruz…

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Violent Storm Flattens and Smashes Buildings

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 3

What is described by local residents as the most severe cyclone they had experienced, swept portion of the Murrumbateman district on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. C. T. Butt, of…

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Hungry Women Storm Bakery

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 5

ROME, Wednesday: A mob of 500 women stormed the local bakery in the town of Ascoli and carried off over 300 1b. of bread…

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Pay Envelope Paradox Storm In a Tea Cup

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 29 May 1946 · page 6

Two letters, one dated May 3rd (addressed to the Secretary), and one dated May 11 (addressed to the Chairman, Dir. H. O. Dove), were…

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Flood—stein

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 13 June 1946 · page 2

A very pretty wedding, and one of considerable Goulburn interest, was celebrated at St. Peter and Paul's Cathedral, at 9 a.m. on…

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Fight Against Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 June 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two trawlers, the Goonambee and the sister ship Alfie Cam, reached Sydney this morning after a desperate battle…

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Bleak Spell Goulburn Swept by Gale

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 1 July 1946 · page 5

A bleak westerly, which at times reached gale force, swept Goulburn at the week-end, when the wild weather…

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Floods in W.A. Man Rescued from Top of Tree

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 July 1946 · page 3

PERTH: Bill Della, 30, married, of Midland Junction, was rescued yesterday from the top branches of a tree…

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Savell—gale

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 2

St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn was chosen for the wedding on July 13 at 6.15 p.m., of Betty Jean, youngest daughter of Mrs…

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Marooned Skiers Big Rivers Flooded

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 July 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Snow-bound skiers at Kosciusko may be marooned indefinitely if the rivers in…

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FLOODS Threat in South

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 July 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Wide areas" in southern N.S.W. are faced with serious flood threat. Included is the Tumut area,…

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Floods in Turkey

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 4

ISTANBUL, Wednesday: Three hundred persons are feared to be dead, 500 injured and thousands rendered homeless by floods…

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Blizzard Reigns Floods in South

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: The worst blizzard in July for 40 years has left the Alps in the grip of snow, and Kiandra to-day is…

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Flood Dangers Exaggerated

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 3

From what we can ascertain about the water in Burrinjuck Dam, the rumours flying around Sydney are rather exaggerated. As the water is…

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New Syphon for Flood Control

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 21 August 1946 · page 4

A revolutionary device for flood control in dams claimed to be an advance on American and other inventions and ranking as an…

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