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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1931

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Rivers in Flood Water Across Road. A Lot of Debris

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 April 1931 · page 2

BOTH the Bell and Macquaiie Rivers have a big body of water running in them to-day. The police received word…

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Mr. Mares' Warning. Floods Likely In Central & Southern Areas

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 April 1931 · page 1

The State Meteorologist (Mr. D. J. Mures) said on Tuesday that the disturbance approaching N.S.AV. was the biggest he had recorded on his charts…

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Forty Odd Years Ago The Bourke Flood Glimpse at Old Bourke Paper

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 3 April 1931 · page 1

Through the courtesy of Messrs. A W. Podmore and J. L. Astley, "The Liberal" was enabled to sean a Bourke paper of April 18, 1890. It is printed…

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Flood Warnings. In Macquarie and Other Rivers

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 3 April 1931 · page 4

Country police have been notified by the Commissioner of Police to issue warnings of probable floods. In a telegram it was stated that very…

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Flood Rains. Heaviest for 50 YEARS. West To East. Floods Feared is N.S.W.

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Friday 3 April 1931 · page 4

The most extensive rains for fifty years are being experienced throughout Australia, and as a result, the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares)…

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Louth News Rain and Floods - Cricket Club Balances Ledger—race Club Matters—off to Qi.d.— Personal Pars Rain and Floods

Western Age · Wednesday 15 April 1931 · page 2

The heaviest rain for many years was recorded last week. All parts of the district received from three to five inches. As a result of flooded creeks…

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Coastal Rains Floods Likely Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 24 April 1931 · page 1

Torrential rains are continuing on the coast, and already many lowlying parts are under water. The danger is now more serious in…

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Fell Into Flooded River Child Drowned. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 1

Arthur Freeman Steven was walking with his father across the flooded river at Invergordon, near Gloucester, when they both slipped and…

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Gulargambone Show Heavy Rain Causes Postponement For a Week

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 6

Early on Friday morning steady rain fell and by 9 a.m. it was plainly seen by everyone, that it would be impossible to carry on with the…

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Gunnedah Cyclone

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1931 · page 4

Sir,—Kindly grant me space to reply to the letters of Mr. Howey and Mr. Mooney, regarding the decisions of the Labor Electorate Council of Gwydir…

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Soviet Wheat Flooding Great Britain

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 May 1931 · page 1

Cabled advices from London report that there has been a remarkable increase in the British imports of Soviet wheat. For the four months ended…

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Rivers Rise Prospects of Floods. Macquarie Banking Up Bell

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 2

IF rain continues in the catchment areas of the Macquarie and Bell Rivers, prospects of the latter overflowing its banks and flooding the…

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Heavy District Rain River a Banker Unemployed Camp Evacuated

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 1

The continuous and heavy rains over the week have caused an enormous body of water to fill the channel of the Macquarie River at Dubbo. At 9…

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Flood Danger Over for the Present

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 June 1931 · page 3

ON Thursday last the Macquarie and Bell Rivers were in flood, and it was only the timely cessation of vain which saved the town from a…

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Flood Damage

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 5

The recent rains throughout the district causcd the Marthaguy Creek to attain a height not excelled for the past 30 years. Old residents state…

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Why Not a Flood-proof Fence?

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 7

NOT least among the items of loss resulting from the floods which periodically lay waste many low-lying rural districts is that represented by…

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Solving A Recurring Trouble. Why Not a Flood-proof Fence?

The Western Herald · Friday 5 June 1931 · page 3

Not least among the items of loss resulting from the floods which periodically lay waste many low lying rural districts is that represented by…

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Further Heavy Rain. Rivers Again in Flood

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 June 1931 · page 2

THE phenomenally wet season continues, and early on Saturday morning steady rain set in, and as the day wore on, it became heavier, and…

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Back to the Flood. Discovery in Buried City

The Wellington Times · Monday 8 June 1931 · page 5

DEFINITE PROOF that the temple discovered by the Weld-Oxford-Field Museum expedition in the buried city of Kish, in Iraq, is that of the…

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Heavy Rain--rivers Flooded

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Thursday 11 June 1931 · page 2

An inch of rain fell on Saturday, making the country still more soaked. The Bogan River is in flood, and creeks are backing water into its channel…

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