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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1921

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Severn Storm at Bellingen

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 2

A severe storm passed over Bellingen on Monday week, being followed by heavy rain. The local telephone service suffered…

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Tale of a Tornado. Thunderstorms and Their Cause

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 6

Excepting a volcanic explosion of magnitude, the tornado is the most appalling of natural phenomena. No structure erected by human hands…

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Local and General. Flood Pictures

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 2

Mr. J. W. Anderson is making an exhibition in the window of his store of some interesting pictures of the 1893 flood, and one of the 1890 flood, kindly…

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The Floods

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 2

Mr. R. A. Price, M.L.A., stated last week that it would be quite beyond the sources of the various councils concerned to repair the…

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North Coast Floods. Repairing the Damage

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 25 May 1921 · page 1

Extensive damage was done to the roads and harbors in the North Coast, between Newcastle and Grafton during the recent flood…

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Any Poet in a Storm

The Northern Champion · Saturday 28 May 1921 · page 7

The influence of moving pictures upon susceptible persons in the audience is greater, much greater, than had been supposed. Among the prisoners…

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Flood Damage

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 31 May 1921 · page 2

Cr. J. A. Mannix, President of the Macleay Shire, left for Sydney on Saturday night, to attend the annual Shires Association Conference. Cr…

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Flooding "Dry" Market (Published by Arrangement). Spirit Trade Between Britain and U.S.A.

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 8

The "New York Herald" declares that since America went dry the export of British and Irish spirits has grown to be one of the…

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Flood Country Cattle

Macleay Argus · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 4

Since the low lands of the Lower Macleay were flooded by the recent heavy rains owners of stock pastured in the flooded lands have been rushing…

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Humors of the Flood

The Northern Champion · Saturday 4 June 1921 · page 6

Now that ibo walers ary down to normal at Harwood, and the outback dwellers are again coming to light, and be usual Inhabitants of…

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Macleay Flood Damage. Cr. Mannix Lays Facts Before Minister

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 3

The following particulars of Macleay flood damage were put before the Minister for Local Government by Cr. Mannix at the above deputation…

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Damage by Floods. Shires Ask for Assistance

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 3

Headed by Messrs Price, Perdriau, Bennett, Nesbitt, Fitzgerald, and Hill, M's.L.A., the representatives, of North Coast and contingent shire councils…

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News of the World. Serious Floods. Devastation in America. New York

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 7 June 1921 · page 3

Reports filtering through from the flood areas show that 16 towns are under three to 15 feet of water. The devastation is so widespread that it is…

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Latest Cables SYDNEY. Tuesday. Colorado Floods

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 8 June 1921 · page 2

The Vancouver Colorado storm continues, the waters rising in the Pueblo for the third time within two days. Hundreds of bodies have…

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Flood Damage on the North Coast

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 8 June 1921 · page 2

Mr. R. A. Price, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Secretary of the Local Government Department re the above:—…

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Flood Damage Estimate

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1921 · page 4

At the 3rd instant deputation of Councillors to the Minister for Local Government, requiting assitance to remedy the damage the…

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Serious Floods Expected. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 14 June 1921 · page 3

Serious floods are expected at Boggabilla. Other towns are also menaced…

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Early Clarence Floods

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 15 June 1921 · page 4

Many old residents, writes A. McF. of the Clarence will remember the flood of 1876 which came about the middle of July of that year. So…

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Shire Floo­­­d Damage. Much Money Wanted

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 17 June 1921 · page 4

Engineer's report delivered at Monday's meeting of the Shire Council :-- Patterson and gang have been…

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Floods in Japan

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 June 1921 · page 5

A MESSAGE from Tokio states that there have been terrific floods in Japan. The list of dead numbers 200…

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