Wagga Flood Fund
The Wagga Mayor’s Flood Appeal Fund, now in its fourth day, has reached a total of £1028/5/-. Amongst the larger donations was…
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Five Rivers Rising at Alarming Rate Floods Claim Four Lives Sydney
Several N.S.W. country districts are menaced with the most widespread floodings in the Stateâs history. Flood waters have already claimed four lives, caused an estimated damage of £1½ million, and flooded thousands of acres of crops, grazing…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Although heavy rain was falling tonight at Maffra floods there have eased considerably…
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MANY Hay people can look forward to spending Easter caring for the banks which have been built to protect the town from the threat of flood…
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Heavy rain in the head waters of the Murrumbidgee River threatens to inundate Wagga and Gundagai again. At Gundagai, to-day, the…
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A grant of £40,000 to be borne equally by the Commonwealth and State Governments was recommended by the Flood Relief Committee today to aid the distressed Riverina area. Wagga was the hardest hit area and there were more than 2000 homes…
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Lawson Syphon, at Deniliquin, is today a scene of feverish activity as double shifts — 16 hours duration…
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A SUSPECTED BROWNING TRAGEDY and the loss of 3000 valuable sheep are realistic evidence of the floods surging north of Jerilderie. The creek at Yanco station rose 10 feet on Sunday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Albury Council Officers’ Reports Heavy Rain Causes Scouring
Heavy rain during the past fortnight had caused a good deal of scouring in various parts of the city, the engineer (Mr Sarvaas)…
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Probably the heaviest loss of sheep that has ever occurred in these parts due to misadventure, took place on Saturday night last…
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The Colombo Creek has been making extraordinarily slow progress, and yesterday (Wednesday) had not entered Colombo Creek…
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The Yanko Creek has been running strongly at a level approaching that of 1931 record flood, but at no point has it…
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It is feared that floods in the Yanko Creek have been responsible for the death of Francis Michael Bourke, aged 50 to 65 years…
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Floodwaters are again swirling in North Wagga and the road to Narrandera is impassable. Water is already seeping into the main…
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While the disastrous and widespread floods in N.S.W. are easing in most central towns— A nine years old boy was drowned in the raging Talbragar River, near Dunedoo, this…
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While floodwaters north of Jerilderie continue to menace properties and stock, the position downstream remains unaltered…
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Mr. Hugh S. Roberton M.H.E (Riverina) asked the following questions in the House last week I address to the prime…
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In view of the recent flood damage in and around Wagga, the Presbytery has decided to open a "Flood Relief Fund" and to call upon all…
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A heavy rain stem struck Albury district shortly before 8 o’clock last evening, and in less than a quarter of an hour 22…
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CANBERRA, Fri.: Leslie Savage, 45, of West Avenue, Queanbeyan was drowned this morning while attempting to straighten…
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