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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Houses are collapsing in flood-bound North Wagga as muddy, brown water six feet deep surges through practically fcvery home in the suburb. Half Wagga is under water. The Murrumbidgee…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A public meeting will be held tonight to urge the government to grant special votes for roads of the district, and that tenders be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Sunday. — Floodwaters have swept past Wagga and tonight poured into Narrandera, flooding hundreds of acres of lowlying country. The Murrumbidgee River broke its banks at Narrandera early…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CORAKI, Sunday.—Although the Mid-Richmond district is waterlogged there has not been any flooding in the area from the heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT WAGGA today State Government Flood Relief Committee members will step out of the comfort and warmth of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NEW YORK, Tuesday (AAP).—Cyclonic spring storms, which have raged throughout the United States for the past two days, have caused…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Floodwaters pouring out of Wagga today were responsible for the death of a man, aged 29, who was electrocuted while rescuing his mother…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Tuesday. — An expert team of scientists and engineers, to study flood control in danger areas, was proposed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The 300 residents of Darlington Point, 40 miles west of Narrandera, fled from their homes tonight as the Murrumbidgee River broke its banks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GRAFTON, Wednesday.—An inquest was held today before the Deputy Coroner (Mr. F. M. V. Earle) into the deaths by drowning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Only 10 homes have escaped inundation as well as the pest office and hotel at Darlington Point. Very few residents are still in their homes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Floodwaters are creeping towards the main street of Dubbo tonight. Water is three feet deep on the outskirts of the town and widespread flooding is expected in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—New South Wales country districts are menaced with the most widespread floodings in the State's history. Flood waters are believed to have claimed four lives, caused an estimated damage of £1,500,000 and flooded thousands of acres of crops,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Thousands of residents in inland centres of New South Wales are standing by for immediate evacuation, as record floods continue to surge forward. Aggravated by further heavy falls of rain today, rivers have spread over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A grabt if £40,000 to be borne [?] by the Commonwealth and State Governments was recommended by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Floodwaters in western and central New South Wales continued their invasion today, driving hundreds more families from their homes. New centres have been enveloped in the swirling mass of water, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A flight which will give many stations their first newspapers and mail for more than five weeks, is scheduled to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—While the disastrous and widespread floods in New South Wales are eas[?]ng in most central towns, Wagga is threatened for the second time in less than a fortnight by the swollen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Friday. — Leslie Savage, 45, of West Avenue, Queanbeyan, was drowned this morning while attempting to straighten a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Floods are subsiding throughout most of the stricken areas in New South Wales, but on the Nepean and Hawkesbury rivers and tributaries high to flood levels are expected by the State…
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