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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1927

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Sanitary Contractor's Experience. in Flooded Creek

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 2

Mr. MeGann, who recently took oyer the contract for removal of nightsoil at Warialda and Warialda Railway, had a sensational…

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Deluge in Queensland

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 5

Fossilbrook township, on the Cairns-Forsyth railway line, has been washed away as the result of floods, according to the report of an inspector at…

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Floods! Three People Drowned Many Queensland Trains Stopped Lismore Menaced. Portions of Town Flooded ROCKHAMPTON

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 1

Three deaths have already occurred as a result of floods. Alfred Tull (38) was swimming in the Dee River when he was…

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In Other Parts. Floods at Lismore. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 4

The Richmond River Lismore has risen 17 feet. The North Coast Company's wharf and other wharves in the town are submerged. The river…

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Queensland Floods. Sydney

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 26 January 1927 · page 4

Further heavy floods occurred in the North of Queensland. All trains were cancelled yesterday. Water in many places was over the railway…

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Shire Roads Problem Drought and Storm The Common Complaint

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 2

Severn Shire councillors maye take consolation from knowledge of the fact that other councils in the State receive road complaints…

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Queensland Floods Brisbane Suburbs Submerged Kilcoy Completely Isolated SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 27 January 1927 · page 1

Floods in various parts of Queensland continue Residents of the low-lying are[?] around Brisbane spent an an[?]ious day yesterday, many…

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Queensland Floods. Residents Anxious

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 1

Floods in various parts of Queensland continue. Residents of low-lying areas around Brisbane spent an anxious day yesterday, many low-lying parts being…

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Eight Killed 100 INJURED Buildings Demolished By Gale GLASGOW

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

Right were killed and a hundred taken to hospital at Glasgow as the result of a gale which raged throughout the day, attaining ninety miles…

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Floods Traffic Held Up Bridges and Culverts Washed Away Resourceful Mail Driver

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

The flood rains of the past week have wrought considerable damage to culverts and bridges on the district roads. while in many…

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Clarence Rising Floods Are Feared GRAFTON

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

Owing to the heavy rains the Clarence River near Grafton has riaen 38ft., and is still rising. A repetition of the disastrous floods of 1921…

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Tabulam Expects Flood Cattle Shifted to Higher Ground TABULAM

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 29 January 1927 · page 1

News of the torrential rains up the river has caused great concern here and cattle depasturing on low-lying land have been removed to more…

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Heavy Storms

The Uralla Times · Monday 31 January 1927 · page 2

Exceptionally heavy storms fell to the north of the town on Thursday last. At the local. Post Office the [?]gistration was over two inches…

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Floods in the North. Families Leave Homes. Reads in Stocking Condition

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 2 February 1927 · page 6

Following one of the heaviest storms in record, in less than an hour the creek at Tenterfield began to rise and before midnight it was a…

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Flood Fears Over

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1927 · page 4

All the tributaries to the Clarence and the main stream itself are now falling and fears of floods at Grafton have been dispelled. Nine and a half…

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Flood Damage. Shire's Bequest for Help

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1927 · page 5

The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Fitzgerald) on Wednesday told a deputation from the Tarro Shire Council, which asked for a special grant to…

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Sad Death. Floods Prevent Assistance

The Uralla Times · Monday 7 February 1927 · page 4

One of those tragedies which accentuate the troubles of settlers cut off from assistance by floods and impassable roads occurred on Friday…

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Coming Pictures "Black Cyclone."

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 5

This story of a horse, his coat, as black as night, wild courageous, noble ! Of his love for "Lady" white and beautiful, like a Silver Flash in…

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Car's Pluge Into Flooded River. Narrow Escaprs

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 February 1927 · page 3

An unenviable experience befel a party ox motorists returning from Fusmore to Woodburn. Owing in flood waters, the party…

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Bus in Creek. Carried Away by Flood

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 9 February 1927 · page 6

One of the huge two-ton 'buses of the Pioneer Bus Co., of Ipswich, remains strong to the bank of a creek at the foot of the Toowoomba range…

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