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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1916

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Will There Be a Flood ?

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 2

Yesterday morning there were reports of the possibility of a flood in the Murrumbidgee. Yass had 2½ inches of rain and the river was…

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Floods Round Temora

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 3

Heavy rains have fallen in the Temora district. All the low-lying places are flooded. Several streets resemble miniature lakes…

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The River. a Flood Feared. Great Fall of Rain. Waters Rising Rapidly

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 3

News received from Gundagai yesterday would seem to indicate that the long-talked-of flood in the Murrumbidgee is imminent. The river at…

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Cloudburst at Yass. Murrumbidgee in Flood

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 3

A cloudburst at Yass last night converted the main street into a river, and many business places were flooded. The Murrumbidgee is in flood. All…

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Floods at Yass, Orange and Temora

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 2

Our Sydney currespondent wired last night that widespread rain was reported yesterday morning as the result of the Antarctic disturbance,…

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Aeroplanes in a Storm

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 August 1916 · page 2

General Sir Douglas Haig reports: "With our long range guns we successfully shelled troops and traffic at different places between Bapaume…

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Gundagai's Flood. Big Body of Water

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 4

Gundagai had a "bit of a flood" —just enough to cause a mild flutter of excitement, and to be the means of damaging a lot…

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Lachlan in Flood. Scare at Forbes. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 3

There is another flood scare at Forbes. The Lachlan at Cowra has reached a height of 40 feet. Many of the residents are shifting to higher ground…

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Murrumbidgee Flooded Foot Higher Than Last Month

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 31 August 1916 · page 2

When the Murrumbidgee reached 26 feet 2 inches yesterday, this being a foot higher than the highest reading for the July flood the general topic…

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Repairing Flood Damages. No Special Grant. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly the Minister for Public Instruction, in reply to Mr. Fitzpatrick, who asked whether some special grant would be given to…

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About Floods

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 3

In these richly endowed districts of New South Wales, and it must be claimed that the colony possesses no fairer heritage than the fertile plains…

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The River in Flood. 24ft. 4in. Reached

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 2

If is some years since the waters of the Murrumbidgee, reached the present high level. Since Monday last reports had been received from…

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Railways and Floods

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 12 September 1916 · page 2

Last week our representative passed by train along the line at Jindalee, and he specially noted the new system of drainage that has been carried out to…

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The Recent Flood

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 21 September 1916 · page 2

"Inquirer."—The river reached its maximum height at 26ft loin, on Thursday, 31st August. The river attained a greater height…

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Heavy Rain in Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 September 1916 · page 3

As a result of heavy rain at Broken Hill last night many streets were flooded. As the Government tramway fettlers are on strike, and there…

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Heavy Rain in Victoria. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 September 1916 · page 3

Heavy rains have fallen in Victoria, and floods are feared in many centres…

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Big Victorian Floods

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 25 September 1916 · page 3

The floods in Victoria continue. A man named Woodward was drowned in the flood waters at Carrum, and a milkman named…

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In the Ranks. Soldiers' Letters. What They Head in a French Paper About the Gundagai Flood

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 25 September 1916 · page 2

Private Dug Carr writes (under date of 20.7.'16) from England:— "Am Quite well again. Was talking to a few Australian…

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Further Heavy Rain

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 26 September 1916 · page 2

Late in the afternoon of yesterday further heavy rain set in, and continued incessantly until after midnight A registration at 9 o'clock…

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Record Floods at Benalla. Big Losses of Stock. Benalla (Vic.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 September 1916 · page 3

To-day Benalla was visited by a flood as heavy as the disastrous one of 1870, if not heavier. At an early hour the river broke over its banks, and the…

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