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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1929

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Milk and Thunderstorms. The Real Cause of Souring

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 3

A Dutch milk supplying company recently investigated the subject of the influence of thunderstorms on the development of acid in milk in a hope…

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Milk and Thunderstorms The Real Cause of Souring

The North Western Courier · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 2

A Dutch milk supplying company recently investigated the subject of the influence of thunderstorms on the development of acid in milk in hope…

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Last Night's Storm

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 2

A storm passed over Morse shortly after midnight last night, but although there was a wonderful display of lightning and some heavy peals of…

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Tuesday's Storm. Mallowa Hall Wrecked

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 7

From reports to hand Florida North, the property of Mr. Bert, Grace, and Mallowa Hall, which is only a short distance from Mr. Grace's, appear to…

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Violent Storm. Hotel Struck by Lightning. Bogan Gate

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 2

A violent storm which swept the town yesterday caused considerable damage to property. The Railway Hotel was struck by…

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Floods Now! Damage in Dunedoo District Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 1

During a heavy storm in the Dunedoo district, more than 1000 sheep were swept away in the flooded waters, and were drowned. Many miles…

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Week-end Floods. Gloucester

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 2

Further particulars of the flood at Gloucester show that the waters reached a height of more than to feet and had washed away five buildings…

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Toll of the Floods. Quarter Million Damage Coastal Districts Suffer. Sydney

The North Western Courier · Monday 11 February 1929 · page 1

Damage from flood waters to Gloucester, Kempsey, Taree and Wauchope districts is estimated at a quarter of a million pounds…

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Flood-Swept Areas Government Grant Free Fodder Sydney

The North Western Courier · Thursday 14 February 1929 · page 1

The Government has been requested to grant free, a railway carriage of fodder on rail to the Soldier Settlement areas swept by floods, where…

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Flood Guage

Manilla Express · Friday 15 February 1929 · page 2

At Monday's meeting of the Shire Council it was suggested by Cr. McDonald that a flood gauge be installed at the…

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Storm Clouds. Regular Visitors to Mungindi

North West Champion · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 2

The storm clouds are no strangers to Mungindi now. Every Jay, from various quarters of the horizon, they gather over the town. The stirring…

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Cyclonic Storm Thousands Damage at Longreach Brisbane

The North Western Courier · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 1

During a cyclone storm at Longreach, Queensland many buildings were partly unroofed, and fences were blown down. The damage is…

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Drowned By Flood waters MELBOURNE

The North Western Courier · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 1

Albert Beaument, 13, was swept away by the flood waters at Gardner 's Creek, Victoria, and drowned…

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Heavy Storms

Manilla Express · Tuesday 19 February 1929 · page 2

While the old world freezes in the greatest snow storm since the ice-age the eastern coast of Australia is suffering from the effects…

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Widespread Storms

The North Western Courier · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 5

The weather at Maules Creek' is still unsettled and no beneficial rain has been recorded except for Isolated thunderstorms. The conditions…

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About Gloucester Where the Floods Are

The North Western Courier · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 3

Gloucester, where two men perished in vain attempts to get succor to flood-threatened people in a hotel, had a mushroom growth…

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Flood Incidents Flotsam and Jetsam

The North Western Courier · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 5

Describing flood incidents coastal papers struck some purple patches. Considerable trouble was experienced in rescuing the Dempsey…

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The Barwon Down Floodwaters Reach Mungindi

North West Champion · Thursday 21 February 1929 · page 4

"It's down," they shouted, and everyone knew just what was meant. To an outsider the remark "It's down" might have meant that the price of…

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Flood Incident

North West Champion · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 1

Rather a humorous incident occurred at Taree during the floods. A sow (a stranger) swam into Mr. Dyball's house and made for a bed in a…

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Lismore Flood. Lismore

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 4 March 1929 · page 2

When crossing a flooded creek between South Lismore and Coraki, Walter King, of Lismore, was drowned. No one saw tho accident, but his…

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