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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1939

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Land Notes Cyclone Gates and Fences Better Sheep Management As a Means of Increasing Profits

The North Western Courier · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 4

Discussing at a recent conference of farmers the question of what the sheep man could do to maintain his industry on a…

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Floods Swamp Japanese Blockade. Tientsin Plunged Into Darkness. London

North West Champion · Monday 21 August 1939 · page 1

"The Tientsin floods have cut off electricity and plunged the whole City into darkness," states the American Associated Press correspondent…

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Land Notes Cyclone Gates and Fences Important During Shearing Care of the Lambs and Ewes

The North Western Courier · Thursday 31 August 1939 · page 4

Special thought should be given during shearing to ewes with lambs at foot. Dry ewes and wethers present little trouble…

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Shire Plant Taxed Extensive Road Repairs Flood-worn Surfaces

The North Western Courier · Thursday 14 September 1939 · page 3

At the monthly meeting of the Namoi Shire Council the Engineer advised the necessity of a third heavy patrol grader unit for Trunk Road work. Good progress was reported With the…

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Land Notes Cyclone Gates and Fences Mining of Land Must Give Way to Wiser Methods of Working

The North Western Courier · Monday 9 October 1939 · page 4

There has been a tendency to mine the land rather than utilise it as a means of permanent production, points out a…

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Land Notes Cyclone Gates and Fences What Causes "Haying Off"

The North Western Courier · Monday 23 October 1939 · page 3

Haylng-off is a condition which occasionally appears in well-developed wheat stands. It is characterised by sudden premature ripening of ears,…

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All Quiet on Western Front Floods in Moselle and Rhine Rivers. Paris

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Monday 23 October 1939 · page 1

Abundant rain continues to swell further the Moselle and Rhine rivers and their tributaries, thus threatening the Siegfried line…

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Heavy Storm

Manilla Express · Tuesday 19 December 1939 · page 2

Accompanied by thunder and vivid lightning a heavy rain storm broke over Manilla on Saturday afternoon when 135 points…

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Wind Storm Causes Much Damage

The North Western Courier · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 1

Damage estimated at over £250 was caused by a cyclonic squall that swept Narrabri on Tuesday afternoon…

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Before the Shire Matters in Correspondence No Flood Grant—Further Subsidies Refused—Alteration Shire Boundaries, Scheme Awaited—New Railway Cottages

The North Western Courier · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 7

Application for grant for flood Damage.—From Under Secretary, Department of Works and Local Government, advising that he regrets…

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