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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1925

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Flood Damage Repair To Roads Government Inquiries Made

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 15 July 1925 · page 2

Mr. C. A. McInnes, supervising engineer in the Cootamundra district for the public Works Department was in Wagga yesterday, inspecting…

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Gippsland Floods

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 43

As the result of torrential rains over North Gippsland, heavy floods have occurred in many parts. The Tambo, the Mitchell and the Snowy…

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Murrumbidgee Floods Burrinjuck Dam Blamed

The Corowa Chronicle · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 5

A conference sat all day in the Wagga Town Hall on Wednesday, presided over by the mayor (Aid D. T. Byrnes) and comprising delegates…

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Murrumbidgee Valley Floods. Conference at Wagga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 32

The Murrumbidgee Valley Flood Protection Conference was held in Wagga. Delegates were present representing shire and municipal councils and other…

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Flood Damage

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 2

The official reports of the food losses at Gundagai have been furnished, and the list is as follows:- Horses lost, 13, value, £135; cattle,…

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Burrinjuck Dam and Floods. Plan of Prevention

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 4 August 1925 · page 4

At a conference in Wagga recently, Mr. Dare, chief of the Witter Conservation Irrigation Commission, agreed that the Burrenjuck Dam may be used to…

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Serious Floods in Japan. Tokio

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 2

A special message from Nagoya reports serious damage by floods, estimated at ten million yen, including 1.1 mbers of pottery kilns. which have…

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Storms in Music

The Independent · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 4

Although music is not first and foremost a descriptive art, certain passages echo the moods of Nature as they appeal to the composer…

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Kiewa River in Flood

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 25

Snow waters and heavy rains in the mountains have caused the Kiewa River to flood, but there is no immediate danger. The Murray at Albury…

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Bogan in Flood. Midgery Downs, via Nyngan

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1925 · page 12

Dear Uncle Jeff,—It is bow quite a long time since I have written to you. We have had a very big flood here. The Bogan River was in flood, and we…

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Disastrous Floods in Japan TOKIO, August 27

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 29 August 1925 · page 2

Rain yesterday resulted in 40,000 houses in Tokio and 1000 in Yokohama being party submerged. There were several casualties,…

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Miniature Flood Coming. The River at Darlington Point. Darlington Point

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 September 1925 · page 1

The rise in the Murrumbidgee River is now being felt at Darlington Point. The river rose 9in. last night, and at 9 a.m. on Tuesday…

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The Murray and Floods

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 39

The Water Conservation Commissioners have refused to take over the levee banks on the New South Wales side of the Murray River, and have…

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After the Gundagai Flood

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 September 1925 · page 22

A dual meeting of the Flood Yearning Association and those interested in recognising Mr. J. Gardiner's valuable work in forewarning residents on…

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Storm at Sandringham. Heavy Seas. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 September 1925 · page 2

Boisterous weather to-day culminated in a cyclone blow at Sandringham. The roofs of houses, wireless: masts, and hoardings were blown…

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The Weather Cyclone Over District

The Corowa Chronicle · Saturday 31 October 1925 · page 3

On Thursday afternoon about four o'clock a most terrific windstorm struck across the district from Corowa to Daysdale. The wind was blowing…

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Flooding Out Prohibition. (Published by Arrangement.)

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 November 1925 · page 21

"The Moderation League," says the "Times" (New York), "has made public tho results of a survey in the Southern States, and prefaced its…

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Flooding Out Prohibition. (Published by Arrangement.)

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 10 November 1925 · page 4

"The Moderation League" says the "Times" (New York) "has made public the results of a survey in the Southern States, and prefaced its…

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Gale at Plymouth. London. November 7

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 November 1925 · page 20

In a gale at Plymouth last night the yacht St. George, which returned in September from a scientific cruise in the South Pacific, broke her…

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Flooding out Prohibition (Published by arrangement)

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 14 November 1925 · page 4

“The Moderation League” says the “Times” (New York), “has made public the result of a survey in the Southern States, and prefaced…

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