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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1923

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Storms in the Country Much Damage Done. Sydney

The Daily Express · Monday 1 January 1923 · page 3

Orange reports having had the moEit violent dust storm experienced for years. The town was much damaged and thousands of cases of fruit were…

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Fires and Gales, in the City and West. Much Damage Done. SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 January 1923 · page 3

Coincident with another heat wave hush fires bush out again in outlying suburbs towards evening. A gale sprang up from the southwest and…

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Cyclone Wrecks Town. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1923 · page 2

Taroom, in the Dawson Valley was severely damaged by a cyclonic storm early to-day. Several houses were completely demolished and…

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Another Cyclone [?] and Some Mail [?] TOOWOOMEN

The Daily Express · Friday 5 January 1923 · page 1

[?] storm swept over Warwick [?] late on Wednesday and bringing with It Ballatones as large as hen [?] and in come cases as…

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Bathurst Cyclone Sydney

The Daily Express · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 1

Bathurst orch[?] estimate their losses [?] to the cyclone at £5000. Many orchar[?]s are literally corered with hair [?]rown fruit…

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Big Storm in Melbourne. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 4

A thunderstorm accompanied by heavy rain and hail passed over Brunswick North[?] and Canterbury about seven o'clock Private and shop…

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Country Houses" at Sea Speed and Luxury Imperial Suites for £1600. Gales That Howl in Vain

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1923 · page 7

The irresistible force has crashed into the immovable object. Fifty six thousand tons of mammoth ship swept, into a 51,000 ton leviathan…

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Cyclone at Avoca. a Mile and a Half Wide. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 January 1923 · page 2

A message from Avoca to-day states that a cyclone occurred at Gung Bong last night. The track was a mile and a half wide, and much…

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Melbourne Storm. Damage in the Suburbs

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1923 · page 1

A terrific storm which swept in a narrow belt across portion of Brunswick, and, in somewhat less violent form, across Coburg, Kew and…

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Terrific Storms. Cloudburst in the West. Orchardists Lose Heavily. WELLINGTON

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 January 1923 · page 2

At 6 p.m. on Friday the biggest cloudburst for years occurred at Dripstone. Ten inches of rain fell in an hour. A huge wave of water swept…

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Boys' Experience in Storm

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 2

A heavy thunderstorm raged at Tumbarumba on Saturday night. Three lads, Arthur and William the seme of Mr. J. K. Foster, of Courabyra, with…

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Heavy Hail Storm. Poultry Killed. SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 1

A destructive hail storm passed over Sunny Corner last night, ruining, gardens and orchards, besides damaging maany buildings. Poultry…

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Gale in Sydney. Bathers in Difficulties. a Well Collapses. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 2

When this afternoon's southerly storm came up a woman and a boy got into difficulties in the water at Brighton le Bands. Five men immediately…

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Heavy Weather Rain Hall and Damage Wellington, N. Z., Jan 16

The Daily Express · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 4

A torrential downpenr of rain at Palm[?] North, yesterday caused shops offices and private residences to be [?] Great damage was…

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Disaster Feared Train in Flood Waters January 17

The Daily Express · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 2

It is feared that a grave disaster has overtaken the mall train on the run to Colombo from Jaffna. A section of the northern area is seriously…

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The Storm Centre All Ruhr State Mines Requistioned. Banks and Financial Institutions Seized German Government Prohibits Coal Transport Miners Strike To-day Paris. January 20

The Daily Express · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 1

Nine State mines in the, Ruhr were requisitioned on Friday. They have an output of 9,000,000 tons a year and will be operated under the direct…

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Heavy Rain in Sydney. Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 January 1923 · page 1
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Heavy rain fell in Sydney during the night, over 140 points being registered…

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Flood Prevention

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1923 · page 2

Now and again Cootamundra has been flooded. In times of big storm about Morrison's Hill there is a meeting of the water where the valleys…

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Soldier’s Wife Missing Mind Affected by Storm

The Daily Express · Thursday 8 February 1923 · page 2

The police of several States have failed to trace Etiza[?] Audrey Cavanaugh a young married woman who disappeared from her home at…

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