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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1928

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Queensland Floods Havoc Wrought Mt. Morgan Without Light Railway Bridge Wrecked Rockhampton (Q.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 1

Information concerning the devastation wrought by floods is gradua[?]y trickling through. Bridges have been washed away, gas mains burst…

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Queensland Floods Rokhampton (Q),Tuesday

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 3

The Fitzroy River is now 24 deep at Rockhampton and is still rising. Should it rise much more a considerable portion of the low lying sections of the…

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Queensland's Floods Nine Men Missing. Recovering Bodies. Families in Trees. Sydney, To-day

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 2

At Dundalba (Q.), nine cotton pickers, who were employed on the farm of a man named Baker, are missing, and are believed to have…

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Flood Damage

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 2

In response to an appeal by the Kyeamba Shire Council, through Mr. Kilpatrick, M.L.A., for a special department grant towards the cost of…

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Mississippi Floods Hundreds Driven From Homes New Orleans

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 April 1928 · page 1

Mobile tributaries of the Mississippi River, again overbowing, have caused grievous distress in many sections of Albama and other States…

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Queensland Floods Bodies Recovered Mine Subsidence Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 April 1928 · page 1

Two more bodies, believed to be those of Mrs. Williams, junr., and the remaining child of the family who disappeared when Muldoon's farm…

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Queensland Floods Receding ROCKHAMPTON

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 April 1928 · page 1

The flood waters are receding. The Fitzroy river is down to 27ft. All the settlers are now safe…

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Flood Waters Subsiding Rockhampton (Q.)

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 May 1928 · page 2

Flood waters in the Rockhampton district are now subsiding inea[?] able damage has been done to farmers but already farmers are hard at were…

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Gale Over Dominion Wellington (N.z.)

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 May 1928 · page 4

A terrific gale swept over parts' of Now Zealand on Tuesday night, and the damage is estimated at £10,000. Along the Auckland water front a…

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Wackett's Flight Delayed by Storm Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 May 1928 · page 2

Owing to unfavorable weather conditions Wing-commander Wackett has postponed his departure from Richmond for Singapore until tomorrow…

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Terrific Gales on New Zealand Coast Damage at Auckland Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 May 1928 · page 1

Terrific gales swept over parts of New Zealand last night. The damage is estimated at £10,000 along the Auckland water front. A number…

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Southern States Floods and Blizzard New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 May 1928 · page 1

A message from Atlanta Georgia, states that the latest estimates of the Southern States flood disasters, are that 12 are dead and 8000 temporarily…

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Queensland Flood Losses Rockhampton

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 May 1928 · page 1

As the flood waters begin to recede appalling losses are being realised. In places in the Dawson Valley cattle are suspended in trees 20 to 30 feet from…

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Three Children Drowned Boat Capsizes in Flood Waters Montreal

Daily Advertiser · Friday 11 May 1928 · page 2

A message from Sudbury, Ontario, states that while returning in a flat-bottomed boat across flooded fields surrounding Whitefish school, three…

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Flood Damage to Roads Government Assistance

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 11 May 1928 · page 3

The following letter from the Local Government Department has been awarded us by Mr. Hugh [?] M.L.A., “Coolamon Shire Council Applies…

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White Australia If War Storm Break America Will Be in a Striking Article New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 May 1928 · page 3

"Liberty," a national magazine with a circulation of 2,000,000, carries an article entitled "White Australia, Low Pressure Centre of the Globe,"…

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Severe Hail Storm in Small Sector

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 May 1928 · page 2

Round about 2 o'clock time on Wednesday afternoon last, a heavy rain Storm of short duration passed across the southern portion of the…

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Airship Italia Gale Prevents Landing King's Bay

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 May 1928 · page 1

A gale prevented General Nobile in his airship Italia from carrying out his full plans at the North Pole. It was impossible to land because the…

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Nobile's Airship No News Received Suspense Regarding Fate Last Authentic Message on Friday Storm Encountered London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 May 1928 · page 2

The suspense regarding the fate of the Italia, with General Nobile and a crew of 19 and dog aboard, continues. The last fully authenticated wireless…

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Missing Airships No Messages Received Continues Storms Fur Trappers to Search King's Bay

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 31 May 1928 · page 4

A message from the Citta di Milane, ice-bound north of Cape Barren denies having received any messages whatever from seal hunters on or…

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