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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1920

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Widespread Rainfall. Floods Threatened

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 7 January 1920 · page 2

Although the North and North-West have been visited during the last few Weeks by a number of heavy thunder-storms, which resulted in some useful…

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Past in Queensland. Maryborough Flooded,. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 8 January 1920 · page 4

Torrential rains have fallen in Queensland. The water at Maryhorongh is over Walker's wharves and all lowlying parts of the town are…

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Fire and Flood

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 13 January 1920 · page 4

Mr.Charles Masters, of Saw[?] Gully Young. working in a paddock on Saturday. observed his home ablaze. He was just able to reach the house in…

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More Storms

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 15 January 1920 · page 4

Temperatures since last issue have been high, with marked humidity in the atmosphere. As a result storms have been abundant and scarcely any…

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Good Rains. Storms Over North and North-west

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 17 January 1920 · page 6

On Tuesday night beneficial storms passed over almost the entire North and North-West, yielding as much as two inches in some places. The…

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Bare Back Storm Women Unbalanced by War

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 20 January 1920 · page 4

The advance description in the London "Evening Standard" of the new 'bare back" evening gown, which is to be the British fashion sensation of…

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Bare Back Storm. Women Unbalanced by War

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 26 January 1920 · page 3

The advance description in the London "Evening Standard" of the new [?] bare back [?] evening[?] which is to be the British [?]…

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Perdrian Auroplane Damaged. Result of Storm

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 2

Yesterday afternoon's ferce storm in Tamworth (says Wednesday's Observer') was respondible for the partial wreek of Messra. Perdrian Ltd.'s…

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Flood in Gippsland

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1920 · page 4

Sydney, Thursday.—Eight inches of rain, causing a flood equalling that of 1903, ocearred at Bruben, Gippsland Victoria), destroying three fouriths of…

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The Queensland Cyclone. Great Damage Done. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 4

Further particulars of the Queensland cyclone show that Port Douglas was practically demolished. A report from Molley, 60 miles from…

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Heavy Gales in Noeth Queensland

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 4

Sydney, Thursday,—Eeavy gales have oeeurred in the north of Queensland. Only one house was left standing at Molloy…

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Tossed in a Gale. Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 4 March 1920 · page 4

The barquentine "Forest Bridge," which arrived yesterday lost 200,000. feet of timber in a heavy gale in the Pacifies…

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Heavy storm

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 20 March 1920 · page 3

On Tuesday last one of the heaviest storms registered at Uralla for several years passed over. Thick hail was an accompaniment of heavy rain, and in a few minutes the…

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Floods in New Zealand Family Washed Away. Mother and Three Children Drowned

The Inverell Times · Thursday 1 April 1920 · page 4

A serious position of affairs is disclosed by additional particulars of the floods at Paparoa, North Auckland. A railway worker named Matthews…

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Floods in New Zealand

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 3 April 1920 · page 1

Further particulars of the floods at Paparoa, North Auckland, disclose a serious condition of affairs. A railway worker named Matthews was camped…

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Sunday's Thunderstorm

The Inverell Times · Friday 9 April 1920 · page 4

The weather conditions on Sunday [?]st were most promising for a good downpour of rain, but the visitation was most disappointing. In the town…

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The 1890 Flood How Texas Fared Interesting Records

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 2

During a visit to Texas last week [?] of the Inverell "Times" [?] shown [?] from the "Border [?] of April 11th, 1890, in which…

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THE 1890 Flood How Texas Fared. Interesting Records. (Continued from last issue)

The Inverell Times · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 2

There were eleven of them in the hotel mob up the trees. Old Grain, who was drowned, was one of them, and was brushed off the hotel by a tree…

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Pearlers in Storm

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 4

Four pearling luggers were lost and several damaged during a storm off the West Australian Coast. Two sank with all hands…

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The Yellow Flood Future of the Pacific. Obientation Inevitable

The Inverell Times · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 4

Rev. R. Piper, of Fiji, one of the delegates to the General Methodist Conference who speaks with 13 years' experience of his subject, considers…

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