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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

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Flood at Cooma

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 July 1922 · page 4

The southern mail train, which usually arrives at 7.20 in the morning, reached Cooma at 10 o'clock on Saturday night…

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Stricken Korea. Military Invasion. Typhoon and Flood. Tokio, July 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 August 1922 · page 5

Seoul special correspondents announce a gathering of 10,000 Korean and Chinese bandits from Siberia on the Korean borders. The bandit leaders are…

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The Wagga Flood

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 August 1922 · page 4

Percolation of flood waters caused subsidence in several places in Wagga, and the sewerage mains were interfered with, but prompt action soon…

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Inadequate Storm Notices Pilot's Caustio Comment

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 August 1922 · page 4

Bitter complaints of the weather reports sent to ships at sea and on the coast are made by Captain Wilson, of the Torres Straits pilot service, who has…

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Prohibition Scandal. (Published by Arrangement.) Floods of Liquor

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 4

The smuggling of liquor across the Canadian border, which has reached such a stage of perfection, it is said, that hundreds of gallons are now illegally…

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Cessnock Landmark. Year of the Flood. Pictures of the Past. "The Old Order changeth, yielding place to the New."

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 5

One by one, the old landmarks of this ancient settlement are disappearing. It is only a mater of time when, in the matter of buildings not a…

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Enlarging Holland. Reclaiming Flooded Land

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1922 · page 11

As you travel about Holland (writes G. Ward Price, in London "Daily Mail"), the realisation grows that the country is virtually a water-logged…

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Storms in Prance. Great Destruction. London, August 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 5

Reuter's Paris correspondent reports that wind and storm, accompanied by extraordinarily heavy [?]a[?], has devastated the vineyards in many districts…

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Hunter Floods. Silting of Newcastle Harbour

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 September 1922 · page 5

The Premier (Sir George Fuller), replying in the Legislative Assembly to question by Mr. Bennett, said it was estimated that some 4,000,000 tons of…

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Scattered Thunderstorms. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 5

Unsettled weather over the greater part of the State yesterday culmuated light to moderate and senttered thunderstorms…

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Flood Silt

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 2

Mr. Bennett asked the Premier,— 1.) Is it a fact that millions of tons of soil and silt were deposited in Newcastle Harbour. owing to recent…

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Storms in Prance. Great Destruction. London, August 31

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1922 · page 13

Reuter's Paris correspondent reports that wind and storm, accompanied by extraordinarily heavy hail, has devastated the vineyards in many districts…

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Enlarging Holland. Reclaiming Flooded Land

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1922 · page 14

As you travel about Holland (writes G. Ward Price, in London "Daily Mail"), the realisation grows that the country is virtually a water-logged…

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Hunter Floods. Silting of Newcastle Harbour

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1922 · page 3

The Premier (Sir George Fuller), replying in the Legislative Assembly to a question by Mr. Bennett, said it was estimated that same 4,000,000 tons of…

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The Forecast. Heavy Rain on the North Coast

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 September 1922 · page 5

Meteorological Rurea[?], Wednesday, New South Wales; More rain in the nort-cast quarter and along the coast; further heavy falls on the…

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Monsoonal Storm. Gales and Heavy Rains Coming

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 September 1922 · page 2

The monsoonal disturbance at 3 p.m. on Tuesday was centred slightly west of Brisbane, and, although it had not readied the coast, was responsible for…

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Cyclonic Storm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 September 1922 · page 4

Heavy thunderstorms occurred on parts of the Darling Downs on Wednesday. A severe cyclonic storm struck…

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Warning As to Floods

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 September 1922 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon Sengt. Brydon received from the Inspector-General of Police, through the Superintendent at Newcastle, an urgent…

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Chanak the Storm Centre. Paris Conversations. London, September 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1922 · page 5

That urgent decisions are accessary with regard to Chanak is recognised here, says the "Evening News" Paris correspondent. As Chanak remains…

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