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Floods & storms, 1925

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Storms Threatening. Oslo

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1925 · page 1

The "Shipping Gazette" says the Arctic regions are threatened with storms, which will compel Amundsen to return immediately, if able…

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Storms in Sydney Many Houses Unroofed Lowlying Parts Inundated Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1925 · page 3

Last night's storm was followed by another of even greater severity at about 4.30 this morning. At Collaroy more than twenty houses…

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Floods in Goulburn District. GOULBURN

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 May 1925 · page 3

Heavy rain fell in the Goulburn district during the day causing the Wollondilly and Mulwaree rivers to rise rapidly. This afternoon the rivers burst…

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Latest Forecasts More Heavy Rain Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

The following are the latest official forecasts:— State: Chiefly fine in the north-west corner; otherwise generally…

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In Victoria. Gale Damages Buildings. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

A violent storm passed over Ballarat yesterday. The whole of the eastern section of the galvanised iron root of the Anglican Chapter House was…

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Floods on Catchment Sydney, This Day

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

Floods are threatening Monaco and the southern tableland where heavy rains have been falling slice Monday…

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Previous Floods

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

Up till this week the May of the year 1915 was the wettest in the meteorological history of Gundagai for 35 years. But this…

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A Devastating Flood Enormous Damage Done Biggest Flood For 34 Years Two Men Drowned

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

Gundagai has a flood! The water rose and rose and at dawn to-day Gundagai was a sea of water…

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Gundagai Flood Two Men Drowned

Adelong Argus, Tumut and Gundagai Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 4

Gundngai is flooded—the biggest flood since 1891. Two men, Allan Smith and Walter Kirby were drowned, and several are…

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Jugiong's Biggest Flood. Jugiong, 9 p.m

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

Before midday those who watched the rising river here lost sight of the gauges. They register 32 feet, and were not covered in the 1922 flood,…

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Official Flood Warning. Gundagai, 4 p.m

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

The official flood warning issued by the Murrumbidgee Flood Warning Association is: "Expect flood along Murrumbidgee River equal to or higher than…

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Flood Threatens Murrumbidgee Towns Record Levels Passed at Upstream Gauges Houses Washed Away, Hundreds Homeless Havoc Wrought with Burrinjuck Works

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

On Tuesday night terrific rainstorms over most of the catchment area of the Murrumbidgee River and its tributaries started what threatens to become one of the biggest floods in the history of the river. Tens of…

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Another Flood Warning. Albury, 10 p.m

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 2

The Superintendent of Police desires all people concerned to be warned of the flood danger. The river at Jugiong is the highest…

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Floods on South Coast Great Damage Done SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 1

Floods have surrounded the town of Moruya, and great damage has been done. Two men were taken from the roofs of their homes. Residents…

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COMING Floods Expected May Eclipse the 1922 FLOOD

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 28 May 1925 · page 4

First information of the coming flood was convoyed in a message from Gundagai early yesterday afternoon, stating that the river there was…

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Deluge at Junee and Illabo Junee

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 2

There has been 24 hours continuous rain, over 3½ inches being recorded. Mr. Bell, Shire Engineer, had to hurry a gang of men out to…

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Flood at Yass. Rescues by Boat

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 2

Yass River, which had fallen at the end of last week, rose, as a result of nearly five inches of rain on Tuesday, 32ft, cutting Yass off by…

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Big Floods Murrumbidgee and Goobra-gandra Rivers. Overflow Banks. People Forced to Leave Their Homes. Two Men Drowned. Haystacks, Sheds, Fowl Houses and Pig Styes Swept Away

Adelong and Tumut Express and Tumbarumba Post · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 2

Passengers by train from GundagaL yesterday brought on the news to Tumut that the biggest flood since the 1852 inundation had occurred in…

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Disastrous Floods. oung Man Drowned at Nangus. Thousands of Pounds Worth of Damage

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 2

IT was not the popular song "It ain't going to rain no morel" that was being sung all over the district on Tuesday and Wednesday, but…

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Life Lost in Murrumbidgee Tragedies of the Flood

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 2

Unhappily the flood has brought in its train loss of life as well as terrific losses of stock and property. It is reported that two men lost their lives…

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