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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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ONE MAN was drowned, several bridges were washed away, crops were damaged and road and rail communication was interrupted yesterday by one of the most severe floods experienced in Kyogle district for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Severe wind squalls and heavy seas swept the coast south from Mackay all day Tuesday. At night one of the worst windstorms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Forecast: Mostly fine conditions, except for a tendency to isolated thunder storms inland, but cloudy, unsettled conditions generally in eastern parts, with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KYOGLE, Thursday:-- A quick rise in the river last night caused the highest flood in the lower part of the town since 1931…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conditions are gradually getting back to normal throughout the Tweed District following on the extensive flooding which developed on Wednesday. At 5 p.m. yesterday the river at Murwillumbah was only six feet nine inches above…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LISMORE, Thursday:-- When rain ceased early this morning fears of serious flooding in the Richmond River district were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHEN rain ceased early yesterday morning fears of serious flooding in the Richmond River district were allayed. The main stream at Lismore, however, continued to rise in brilliant sunshine…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood waters in the Orara and Nymboida Rivers, tributaries to the Clarence, and the main Clarence stream at Tabulam, reached their…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The District Representative of the National Roads and Motorists' Association (Mr. W. Lumby) reported yesterday that with the exception of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Owing to washaways on the railway line between Casino and Kyogle, Mr. H. L. Anthony, M.H.R., who was scheduled to be…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Water covered Carlton Park racecourse to a depth of several feet when Wilson's Creek overflowed its banks. The caretaker and his wife who live on the ground removed their furniture and placed it in the grandstand. They were supplied with food by the Lismore police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A registration of 349 points of rain was made at Ballina post office for the 24 hour period which ended at 9 a.m. to-day. Three inches of the total was received…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →KYOGLE, Friday:--After combing the banks of Eden Creek for 12 miles from daybreak, a party of citizens organised by Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Tweed district is gradually recovering from flood conditions. Some thoroughfares yesterday were completely trafficable, while low…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Schemes for flood prevention were freely discussed in Lismore yesterday. Although realising the heavy financial outlay which would be involved, it was pointed out chat this would be offset by safeguarding stock and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Oakey Creek, Coraki road, where 'bus passengers on Coraki side were brought across in two boats on Thursday. The creek, normally a few feet across, became 250 yards wide and so deep that while in the boats the passengers could touch the telephone wires crossing that part of the road. The small boat in the water brought the mails across…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AFTER combing the banks of Eden Creek for 12 miles from daybreak, a party of citizens organised by Const. Forbes, of Kyogle, this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →When Cr. J. J. Watson, member of the Richmond River County Council, made his report about its activities to the Tomki Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FLOODWATERS in the Richmond River from Lismore to the sea and in Wilson's and Leycester Creek receded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With the river at 60ft, at Kyogle at 5.30 a.m. on Thursday, 32 ft, at Casino at 5.30 p.m, and 25ft, 6ins, at Lismore at 12.30 p.m, the Mid Richmond saw the…
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