Aftermath of Flood Pitiable Scenes at Queanbeyan
Queanbeyan presented a pitiable eight when the flood waters abated. Scores of hitherto pretty cottages, well furnished, are now wrecks…
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Queanbeyan presented a pitiable eight when the flood waters abated. Scores of hitherto pretty cottages, well furnished, are now wrecks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The flood in the Murrumbidgee river, which originated in the abnormal rains on the catchment area on May 26, and has since been slowly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The big flood passing down the Murrumbidgee River commenced to make itself fell here on Friday morning. At 10 a.m. the river commenced to rise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The public meeting convened by Shire President Carberry last Saturday to take stops to afford relief to soldier settlers affected by the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Chaffey, Minister for Agriculture and Chairman of the Water Conservation and irrigation Commission, sympathises with sufferers by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting of the sub-committee appointed to consider the distress caused in the district by the recent flood, was held on Monday night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →As chairman of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, Mr. Charley, Minister for Agriculture, said on Tuesday that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After the flood the Wagga garbage men collected 218 dead animals: 200 fowls, 3 horses, 10 rabbits, 1 fowl, 1 calf, and three dogs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murrumbidgee at [?]ay has risen six feet during the 24 hours ending at 5 o'clock this afternoon. It is still rising fairly fast, but is still five feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Though it does not appear to be practicable at present to keep big floods out of Wagga, at least much can be done to make the town flood resistant by building flood proof houses. Most of the damage to private property…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Councillor E. H. Hedditch was chairman at the monthly meeting of the Kyeamba Shire Council yesterday. Other councillors present were Messrs. J…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The acting engineer of the Braidwood Shire estimates that the damage to the roads and bridges in the shire as the result of the floods amounts to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A football match of particular interest will be played to-morrow afternoon when a strong eleven from Leeton will oppose Wagga. The match…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In sections of the Sydney and Melbourne morning press yesterday appeared reports stating that Wagga was again menaced by a serious flood in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A generous quantity of soup was made by the ladies of the Red Cross Society and St. John's Church of England and was distributed by them to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The "Mirrool Irrigator" says:— Ever since the day that Wagga was content to accept an illiterate, ignorant Wapping butcher as an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Now that Wagga has been built, extended, flooded and cleaned up, the old pioneers who first located the town are occasionally accused of a lack of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Murrumbidgee flood at the end of last month did damage amounting to several hundreds of pounds to Mr. W. J. Holland's dairy farm,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. J. S. Carter, president, was in the chair at the meeting held on Saturday night of the Wagga branch of the Farmers and 'Settlers' Association of…
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