Like Dust Storm Grasshoppers Invade Cootamundra COOTAMUNDRA
Huge swarms of grasshoppers settled in the town yesterday, but before they had time to damage, pastures the wind carried them…
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Floods & storms, 1931
608 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 31
Mr. Makes Predicts Flood. Sydney
The official forecast is:-Further rain on North Coast, extending generally over the north-cast half of the State. Heavy falls on North and Central Coast, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Delgued by Torrential Flood District Wide Havoc Tweed River Suffers Equals 1921 Catastrophe? Farms, Shops Inundated
Involving widespread havoc, one of the severest floods in the history of the river deluged the Tweed district yesterday--a calamity to farmers and business men already hard hit by economic stress. Large areas of fertile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Service Suspended Telephone Exchange Flooded
Owing to the intrusion of the floodwaters into the Murwillumbah telephone exchange, and their increasingly menacing depth the telephonists…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Through Flood Waters Patient Gamed to Safety
"All weathers, all times" is an accepted motto of the ambulance, and Ambulance Officer Bowman had no holiday yesterday. Besides attend…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Down the River New Flood Record Attained
After a day of comparatively light rainfall, Wednesday night proved boisterous and wet at the Twin Towns. Up to 6 o'clock, only 55 points had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whole District Flooded Phenomenal Rainfall During the Week. Train Service Suspended
When the few premonitory showers on Monday heralded the definite breaking of the protracted dry spell, few were alarmed enough to expect the phenomenal rainfall which followed, culminating in a flood of serious magnitude. To-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brisbane River Big Flood Expected Torrential Rain Brisbane
Following torrential rains during the past few days a serious flooding is expected on the South Coast. The Brisbane River is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →North Coast Floods Brkbane-Kyogle Line Oat of Action Richmond's Alarming Position Murwillumbah Streets Under Water
Heavy rain over the Richmond River watershed throughout Wednesday night, yesterday, and to a late hour last night gave in Lismore in the 24 hours ended 6 p.m. yesterday, but this total rise to fears of a serious flood. More than four inches of rain fell…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lucky Cudgen Escape Fury of Gale
Lucky Cudgen! Out of flood reach, the area escaped devastation by water, and Thursday night's gale did not Include it in its vicious path. The local…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Middle Arm Reports Creeks in Heavy Flood
Tyalgum received 12.30 inches of rain for the 24 hours ended 8 a. m. yesterday, making the total since January 2,922.31 inches. All the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rescued at Chinderah Cattle Swimming With Flood
Farmers who have had stock swept away by the flood might be repaid for a visit to Chinderah. Several courageous residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Clarence Escapes Flood Rumours Groundless
Reports circulating in Murwillumbah on Thursday night that a "bumper" flood was being experienced at Grafton, proved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Post Office Flooded Telephone Service Dislocated
The waters showed as scaut respect to public services as to private property, invading the post office to a depth of 17 inches. Owing to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tweed Flood Exceeds All Former Records Vast Areas of Water River Breaks Banks Sea Invasion at Fingal Some Stock Losses Feared Richmond River in Flood Also Lismore Radly Inundated
The disastrous flood which spread over the Tweed Valley on Thursday has exceeded all previous records in many parts of the district particularly along the North [?] and extending from Tumbulgum to the mouth of the river…
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flowed the roadway for some distance. At Chinderah the river presented a wide expanse of water, covering all the flats and invading some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tumbulgum Hard Hit Flood Attains Record Height
Tumbulgum is one of the worst afflicted areas, and there the flood attained a record height, invading the hotel to a depth of 16 inches, whereas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Highest Yesterday Flood Waters at Chinderah
Higher than the 1921 flood, was the report from Chinderah, where the waters reached their height at 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The river…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Torrential Rain. on North Coast. Rivers in Flood. Mail Routes Blocked
Very heavy rain has fallen during the week, and since the fall started on Monday the rain has continued almost incessantly. The fall was needed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Taking Stock of Flood Damage Many Stock Losses Roads Damaged Subsiding on Richmond a Man Drowned at Lismore
Slowly but surely the flood waters on the Tweed and Richmond districts have receded, and by to-day conditions should be much improved. On the Tweed the biggest damage was sustained by…
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