28 Dead in Floods
MANILA, Wed.: Toll in Manila’s two-day flood on Monday and Tuesday now stands at eight known killed, 21 missing and 30…
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Petrol for Flood Committee
By a "majority decision on Wednesday, a special meeting of the" Hay Municipal Council decided to make available to the Flood…
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In response to a letter and telephone requests from the Municipal Council, the Department of Civil Aviation has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rugby League Quiet before semi-finals “storm” to-morrow
With most matches in Group 13 Rugby League tomorrow holding little interest, the games will be the “quiet before the storm” of the semi-finals to begin next Sunday…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Delivering his address at the annual conference today, the president of the Commonwealth Chamber of Fruit…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Damage to Ro[?] Estimated at £2000[?] Windouran Shire
Cost of repairing flood mage to various roads [?] Windouran Shire was mated at £2000 the shire [?]…
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In 1904, Mr. Lewis Bell, grandfather of the present Lewis Bell of Alma, wrote in an official report that the country there was not subject to flooding, and that there had not been a major flood in the past 28 years. Mr. Bell went to Alma in…
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PATNA, Tues.: Floodwaters from the River Kosi have swept 391 villages in Bihar’s most populous district of Darbhanga,…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: This year’s flood damage in NSW had been estimated by councils at at least £350,000, the Minister for Public…
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NEW YORK, Fri.: Downpours of rain have isolated small farming towns of west central Texas and at least four persons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Benalla-tungamah League Benallae’s premiership t Record gale
Benalla came from 23 points down at half time to beat Violet Town by eight points in the grand final of the Benalla- Tungamah League at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wagga Council Considering Flood Control
The Town Clerk of Wagga (Mr. F. H. Burns) presented a very comprehensive report on flood control to a recent meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Driving winds and rain storm lash border districts
A driving windstorm which swept the border districts yesterday afternoon blew a verandah off a house at Tallangatta, interrupted telephonic communications, between Albury,…
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ACAPULGO (Mexico), Tues.: Floods, fed by a tropical storm, swept across Mexico’s Pacific coast yesterday. causing loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News Flood Closes Hume Highway
Tarcutta Creek rose rapidly yesterday morning. At 9 p.m. it was flowing across the Hume Highway at a depth of 3ft. 6ins. and was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Culcairn Storm Interrupts Inter-State Phone Services
All direct telephone end telegraphic services between Sydney and, Melbourne were cut for more than two hours on Tuesday afternoon when a sudden windstorm at Culcairn Cong a sheet of roofing iron into the lines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Money for Flood Costs Criticised Strong Protest by Waradgery Shire
THE action of the State Government in reducing road allocations to pay for flood restoration of roads was criticised at a meeting of the Waradgery Shire Council yesterday…
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Police last night reported serious flooding in the Mitta River at Tallangatta and the Ovens, at Wangaratta…
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ACAPULCO (Mexico) Sun.: The toll of a flood that ravaged Mexico’s Pacific coast mounted to 83 dead and dozens…
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Floods in the border districts are expected today to exceed the 1946 level at Albury, the officer in charge at Hume Weir (Mr. Martin)…
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