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New England · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1942

83 stories in New England's papers · page 2 of 5

DIRRANBANDI Water Famine in Flood Time

The Inverell Times · Friday 13 March 1942 · page 6

Dirranbandi has had the unique experience of suffering from a water famine amidst plenty, as the railway tank from which the town water…

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Result of Storm

The Inverell Times · Monday 23 March 1942 · page 3

During a heavy storm which occurred in the Singleton district recently a number of small fish and between 20 and 30 eels in a dam…

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Sydney's Water Heavy Rain Assures Supply SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 1

Torrential rains, the heaviest recorded, which fell last week, gave Sydney at least six months' water supply and water is still running…

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Heaviest Electric Storm For Decades is Forecast

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 3

The Pittsburgh observatory has Issued a warning that ah extremely large group of sunspots may be expected to appear within a few days…

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Result of Storm

Guyra Argus · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 4

During a heavy storm which occurred in the Singleton district recently a number of small fish and between 20 and 30 cels in a dam were…

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Narrabri Flooded

The Inverell Times · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 3

Referring to last week's [?] Narrabri Courier says: At Narrabri the storm assumed the proportion[?] of a deluge when 715 points were registered…

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"Storm in Teacup" A.I.F. Colour Patches SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 1

The controversy over A.I.F. men and colour patches referred to the State and Federal Parliaments was declared by…

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"The Storm that is to Come"

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 4

Henry Lawson (born 1867 in a tent at Grenfell--died poor, 1922) wrote these three verses of "The Storm that is to Come" nearly 40 years ago…

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Coal Mine to Be Flooded Newcastle

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 11 May 1942 · page 1

The whole of Belmont No. 1 colliery, which employs between 70 and 80 men, is to be flooded to put out fires which have…

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Yesterday's News Murderer Arrested--Boy Electrocuted--Floods in U.S.A.--Mine, Conference--Wool Price

The Inverell Times · Monday 25 May 1942 · page 4

A white American soldier, who is described as tall and powerful looking, but whose name has not yet been disclosed, has been taken Into custody in…

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Serious Flood

The Uralla Times · Thursday 28 May 1942 · page 1

Honesdale, Pennsylvania, USA. report the most disastrous series of spring floods in local, instory The town of 5500 peoplkwe was [?] escally spilt…

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Libyan Sand Storm Made in England

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 8 June 1942 · page 6

Sand from the Libyan desert has been specially sent to the Research Laboratory of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway for tests on…

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Terrific Storm

The Uralla Times · Thursday 2 July 1942 · page 1

An extraordinary storm occurred in this district early on Sunday last. There ware incisive strokes of lightning and the thunder fairly rattled…

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Heavy Storms

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 6 July 1942 · page 3

Heavy thunderstorms swept the district on Friday. A uniform fall of about an inch was received, and reports show that many creeks were…

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Stop Press Victorian Floods

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 6 July 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday—Extensive floods over vast areas of the north-eastern and upper Goulburn Valley have left…

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Floods in Victoria

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1942 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. — The north-eastern and upper Goulburn Valley have suffered extensively through heavy floods…

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U.s. Soldier Drowned in Victorian Floods

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 8 July 1942 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — An American soldier, Private John O'Dcnnell, was drowned in the worst floods in the Wangaratta district…

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Thunder Storm

Guyra Argus · Thursday 9 July 1942 · page 2

Guyra and district experienced a very heavy thunderstorm on Friday last, considerably over an inch of rain falling in some places. Many creeks…

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Flood Fears Stock Being Removed Rivers Overflow Banks Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 11 July 1942 · page 1

Fears of floods are entertained at a number of country centres as a result of heavy rains, and, in some threatened art as stock are…

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