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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1927

24 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Heavy Storm

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 2

A remarkably heavy storm, or series of storms, because there were three of them, passed over Braid wood on Wednesday afternoon. The…

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Storm at Goulburn House Struck by Lightning

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1927 · page 4

In a terrific storm which lashed Goulburn on Wednesday night, lightning struck a house and ripped it open, the gable end collapsed, and…

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Floods in February?

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 1

Many years ago Mr. H. C. Russell, who was then Government Astronomer for N.S.W., propounded a series of weather cycles extending over 19…

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Floods in Queensland

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 January 1927 · page 2

With partial desoration of communications graphic stories are coming through of terrific flood damage in Queensland's coastal belt…

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Another Political Storm Discontent in Caucus

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1927 · page 3

Political happenings since the prepresent session opened have created much dissatisfaction amongst members of the Labor party. The failure…

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Telegraphic News Devastating Cyclone. Capetown

The Queanbeyan Age and Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 8 March 1927 · page 4

A cyclone on the east coast of Madagascar, accompanied by a tidal wave, completely devasted port Louis, sinking all manner of craft on the…

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Chased by Flood

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1927 · page 5

Of two men who put up a lonely fight for life against floods, which cut them off in the Wubin district (W.A.), one was washed out of a great tree and drowned, and the…

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Cyclone in Sydney Loss of Life Great Damage to Property

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 2

Six lives were lost, several people were injured, and a vast amount of property damage was caused by the 64-miles-an-hour cyclone, which,…

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Telegraphic News Cyclones and Floods Great Loss of Life and Property. Montreal

The Queanbeyan Age Canberra Advocate · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 1

A New York message states that the gravity of the disaster caused by floods and cyclones is increasing hourly…

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Storm Unearths Tin Mine

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 May 1927 · page 2

What promises to be one of the richest one-man tin mines of the north has been discovered on the property of a Glen Innes grazier…

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Latest Cable News U.s.a. Floods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 May 1927 · page 2

The Mississippi River has broken through the levees in North Louisiana, and 200,000 persons are in the path of the waters. Millions of acres…

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Disastrous Cyclone London, Thursday

The Queanbeyan Age Canberra Advocate · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 2

A Berlin message states that a cyclone blotted out the villages of Lingen, Holthaus, and Lindner. There were several…

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Remarkable Storm

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 3

Half the township of Bungaree (Vic.) was razed to the ground by a cyclone which swept over an area of 15 miles on Sunday afternoon…

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The Big Flood (Published by arrangement)

The Queanbeyan Age Canberra Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1927 · page 4

According to a compilation printed [?]n the “Herald-Tribune” (New York) “the net result of national Prohibition has been to increase the…

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Claim for Garbage Fees Municipal Council v. John Gale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 July 1927 · page 1

In the Queanbeyan Small Debts Court yesterday, before Mr. Forrest, P.M., the Municipal Council claimed £1/16/8 garbage fees, alleged to be…

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Gale’s “Canberra; History and Legends.”

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 29 September 1927 · page 2

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York, to whom the author of the above sent a copy for their acceptance and perusal, has received,…

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Flood of Promises

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 September 1927 · page 1

MR. LANG is evidently bent upon winning his way back to the Treasury benches by copious promises to all and sundry. In this respect…

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Disastrous Gale

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 November 1927 · page 7

More than 30 lives were lost in a gale which prevailed in Britain during the week-end in many parts of the country…

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Heavy Rain

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 November 1927 · page 1

Yesterday afternoon, about 4 p.m., a heavy shower of rain fell, and in a short space of time the street gutters were running a banker. The roof…

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New England Floods New York

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 November 1927 · page 1

The New York military authorities estimate that the death roll from the New England floods will be 125, with 76 bodies already identified. Fifty…

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