Escape Road a Necessity for Flood Time
The question of the provision of a road as an escape for cattle from Seven Oaks to Tanban in times of flood was mentioned by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mid North Coast · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1942
44 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 1 of 3
Willawarrin. a Passing Storm
On Wednesday night a rather tame little storm passed over this area and yielded 14 points of rain. The expected downpour has not yet…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods On The Manning In The Long Ago
Floods on the Manning were big and often in the early days. Here are a few to go on with: In 1857 the water rose at Tinonee…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coraki Cyclone
The snowground or Coraki was a mass of wreckage, says "Richmond River Herald's" report of the cyclone which struck that area last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Storm That is to Come Lawson's Prophetic Vision
Henry Lawson (born 1807 in a tent at Grenfell—died poor 1922), wrote these three verses of "The Storm That Is To Come," almost 40 years ago. To-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm Saves Allied Convoy
How an important Allied convoy carrying troops, pranes and material arriving at Singapore, was saved from a possibly disastrous enemy air…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in Queensland
Floods, the worst in Queensland's history, have drowned five people and thousands of sheep and cattle, and destroyed crops and homes. N.E.S…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Losses in Queensland
Two drownings in Queensland coastal towns, the temporary isolation of part of Dalby, and big losses of sheep and cattle in country areas,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soil Erosion By Floods The Department of Agriculture Aids To Prevention. Adapts Its Service to War Needs
The control on the farm of erosion caused by big floods, especially when the banks are broken, is almost beyond human capacity, but "The Department of Agriculture has consistently provided a lead to primary producers in respect of those crops and commodities…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Storm to Come Henry Lawson's Prophecy
Henry Lawson, one of Australia's greatest poets, wrote the following verses many years ago:-- By our place in the midst of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Noah's Deluge. Evidence That It Occurred
The excavations in the ancient city of Ur have revealed many interesting things—not the least, proofs that the Great Deluge of the times of Noah…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Latest Cables and Telegrams. Floods Defeat Japs in New Guinea Forced Back to Lae Australia's Direct Voice Pacific War Council
Huge floods have wrested from the Japanese all the land they had occupied in the Markham Valley, from which they hoped to threaten…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Rains Break Drought
Flood rains—the heaviest ever recorded in the metropolitan district—last week gave Sydney at least six months' and probably a year's supply…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Storm. Rain and Hail
One of the heaviest storms experienced in Wingham for many moons occurred about mid-day to-day (Tuesday). Hall and rain fell in a deluge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Noah's Deluge Evidence That It Occurred
The excavations in the ancient city of Ur have revealed many interesting things, not least, proofs that the Great Deluge of the times…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hail Storm Damage
The hail storm which swept over portions of the Upper Macleay and particularly the upper reaches of the Collombatti area on Tuesday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Rains on Russian Front London
Further large-scale fighting is expected around Viazma and Rjev, on the Kalinin front, 100 miles northwest of Moscow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forest Fury. Mountain Storm. Chapter One
Rain was slashing the landscape with a ferocity characteristic of the south-west. Its silvery curtain, slanting and undulating, had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Floods Melbourne
Rivers arid creeks in the north-east and Upper Goulburn Valley in Victoria have broken their banks arid much damage has been done to crops…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Floods
Melbourne reported Monday last that floods have spread over vast areas of the north-eastern and upper Goulburn Valley, and that families have been…
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