(Published by Authority) Prohibition Scandal. Floods of Liquor
The smuggling of liquor across the Canadian border has reached such a stage of perfection, it is said, that hundreds of gations are now illegalty…
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The smuggling of liquor across the Canadian border has reached such a stage of perfection, it is said, that hundreds of gations are now illegalty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An old resident who knows the Murrumbidgee well, writes as follows:— Whenever a dangerous rise occurs in the Murrumbidgee at Wagpa, much…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The river overflowed its banks this morning and is now a raging torrent, [?]ll the flats are inundated. It rose from 22ft. at 10 o'clock last night to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Murrumbidgee at Narrandera is now getting the effect of the flood waters which have come down from Wagga, and although the full force is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →With mud oozing over their boot tops, Mayor Stribley. Town Clerk McLaughlin, Ald. Harlow Herdsman McDonald & an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wagga Benvolent, Society has taken in hand relief measures for cases of hardships caused by the re[?] [?] and many people are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With a view to seeing the swollen river and probably with the hope of seeing the commencement of the big rise, a large crowd gathered on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Perhaps no flood previously experienced at Narandera has been looked forward to with mere anxiety than has that which reached here on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An old resident, who knows the Murrumbidgee River well, writes as follows :—"Whenever a dangerous rise occurs in the Murrumbidgee at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The flood waters reached their maximum height on Saturday night, the reading being 26ft., which in five inches higher than the 1916 flood. A large…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narandera reports show that the Murrumbidgee there has apparently reached its highest level, as there has been no alteration since Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Streets running like rivers, squares resembling likes, houses swept from their foundations, people Imprisoned in upper rooms, and exciting boat rescues…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The smuggling of liquor across the Canadian border, which bas reached such a stage of perfection, it is said, that hundreds of gallons…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The reports of the different municipal officers to the Wagga Council meeting last night included many references to the effects of the flood on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At last night’s meeting of the Wagga Municipal Council, the Chief Health Officer (Mr. J. B. Tinsley) submitted a comprehensive report on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Further Isolated showers have been reported in country districts, and conditions this morning were unsettled south of the Lachlan, with rain falling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir,—A great deal more harm is done by "scares" than by floods. People were hunted out of their beds at night recently when there was no reason for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Railway Commissioners are not advancing motor traffic on country railway lines as fast as the Government would like. A storm is said to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →During the recent flood in the Murrumbidgee there was much uncertainty as to the value of the river readings at Gundagai on their bearing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Taking advantage of the presence in Wagga yesterday of Mr. L. W. Buck[?]ell, District Works’ Officer, the Mayor (Ald. H. Oates), accompanied…
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