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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1902

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Sharp Storm at Toowoomba Great Damage

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 December 1902 · page 3

A TERRIFIC storm broke over Toowoomba on Tuesday afternoon. Heavy rain fell, accompanied by a [?] and large [?] stones, which were…

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The Flood Mitigation Scheme

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 December 1902 · page 2

THAT the Public works Committee should have declined to recommend execution of the proposed scheme for mitigating floods in the Hunter is hardly to be wondered at. The…

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Feevension of Floods in the Hunter The Committee's Report

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 December 1902 · page 1

THE Public Works Committee, which has been inquiring into the question if the effects of floods on the Hunter River, on Tuesday passed the…

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Prevention of Floods in the Hunter. The Committee's Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 December 1902 · page 7

The Public Works Committe, which, has been inquiring into the question of the effects of floods on the Hunter River, on Tuesday passed the…

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A Queensland Cyclone. Houses Leveiled BRISBANE

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 December 1902 · page 1

THE Postal Department has received in advice from Ravenswood that a cyclone struck Brookville, causing universal devastation…

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To-day's Gale

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 December 1902 · page 2

Messrs H. York and Sons will conduct a sale of household furniture at the residence of Mr R. whitten, to-day at 2 o'clock Particular are given in advertisement…

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The Weather. Sensational Falls of Rain and Hail. Mooby Inundated and Desolated. Violent Storms at Thornthwaite

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 December 1902 · page 2

THE weather we have been experiencing during the past two or three days is of the most extraordinary character. That the drought is breaking up, and…

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Thursday's Storm

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 December 1902 · page 5

ON Thursday evening there was a severe fall of hailstones at Muswellbrook, the like of which had not been [?]nessed for many years. The…

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Gales on the British Coast

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 December 1902 · page 5

Gales are raging on the coasts of Great Britain. There have been many casualties and some fatalities…

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Flood Waters. Narrow Escape

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 December 1902 · page 4

NEWS from Cassitis state that at Willywally on Wednesday the stormwaters came down so rapidly that a van, too property of James Ashton,…

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