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

Floods & storms, 1949

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Floods Out West Missing People Found

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 5

BROKEN HILL: Don Scheid, his wife and a station hand, Albert Stewart, who had been missing in…

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Magnificent Displays At Boorowa's Annul Show Exhibition Reflects Remarkable Fertility Of An Outstanding District Heavy Rain On First Day Spoils

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

THE MAGNIFICENT DISPLAYS OF EXHIBITS PRESENTED AT BOOROWA P.A. & H. ASSOCIATION'S 60th ANNUAL SHOW LAST FRIDAY AND SATURDAY PROVED CONCLUSIVELY THAT THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THIS FERTILE DISTRICT IS UNEQUALLED…

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Many Parts Flooded

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 March 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Torrential and widespread rains are lashing Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland…

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Heavy Rain in Queensland

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 4

BRISBANE: Torrential rain is falling in many parts on Queensland, particularly in the central west and in the far…

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Floodwaters Raging in Louisiana

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday: Army engineers are working to comliat raging floodwaters which are spreading over the Port Alien area of Louisiana following a break in the Mississippi River level…

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Goulburn Lashed by Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 4

Winds of gale force lashed Goulburn during a violent storm early this morning…

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Freak Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 7

WEST WYALONG: The Catholic Co-adjutor Bishop Young, and four priests, clad in overalls. helped to clear away debris…

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Pastures in Good Condition Heavy Rain Needed for Tanks

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 7 April 1949 · page 2

The stock inspector, Mr. A. Doust, reported to last Tuesday’s P.P. Board meeting. Good weather prevailed during…

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Yacht in Gale Reported Badly Battered

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 April 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE: The yacht, Kurrewa II. was severely battered early to-day when it was caught in a hurricane…

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Burragorang Flooded Holiday-Makers Leave On Horses

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Many of the 200 holiday-makers stranded at Burragorang Valley at the week-end managed to get away from the…

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No Floodlights for P.O. Minister Refers To Power Supplies

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 27 May 1949 · page 1

The Postmaster-General, Senator Cameron, has rejected a proposal that flood-lighting be installed at the…

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CYCLONE On The Coast Narrow Escapes

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 7

The full strength of the visitation was felt on the coast and for forty miles south of Nowra it is no…

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Cyclone Sweeps Goulburn Thousands of Pounds Worth of Ruin Done in City Roofs Were Carried Away And Others Badly Damaged By Violent Wind

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 4

Thousands of pounds of damage trailed in the wake of the storm which swept Goulburn on Saturday. Rain, driven by a south-east gale reaching a velocity of 60 m.p.h., lashed the city, loosening roofs, damaging windows, demolishing fences and uprooting trees…

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Storm Damage Applications For Material

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 8 June 1949 · page 5

About a dozen forms hove been signed by the Building Inspector, Mr. A. H. Currell, to expedite the release of…

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Engineer's Report on Storm Damage 17 Trees Blown Down

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 1

In the course of his report on the storm damage, the City Engineer, Mr. W. I. Muntz, stated that on Saturday he had to call out Mr. Southwell with the only men available, Messrs. G. Matthews and R. Southwell, from the Electricity…

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A Deluge

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 5

In the "Evening Post" yesterday appeared an advertisement stating that a house was to let, with…

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Floods in China Communists Make Progress

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 5

CANTON, Wednesday, A.A.P. Reuter): Famine is threatened in Hunan province, China's rice bowl,…

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Nepean in Flood Hume Highway Impassable

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: The Nepean broke its banks in several places this morning, flooding hundreds of acres of farms in…

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Railway Cuts Result Of Flood And Strike

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Drastic rail reductions due to the coal restrictions and serious flood conditions were announced by the…

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Flood Conditions in Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 4

Nearly two inches of rain fell on Saturday and Sunday,, and, following the rain which fell recently, soon caused flooded conditions every where around the city…

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