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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1931

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Coastal Floods Danger Past Lismore

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 April 1931 · page 1

The danger from flooding appears to be past. The Richmond River is receding…

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Hume Weit Flooding the Valley

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 2 May 1931 · page 22

Preparations are being made at Hume Weir to add ten feet to the height of the slipway in the main wall. This work has been held up…

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Disastrous Hail Storms Pass Over Murrami and Gogeldrie £50,000 Worth of Rice in Track of the Storm

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 2

In a series of thunder storms that passed over parts of the area on thursday evening last heavy damage was done to some…

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Hail Storms Pass Over Irrigation Area Rice Crop's Damaged

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 4

In a series of thunder storms that passed over parts of the area on Thursday evening of last week heavy damage was done to some of the rice…

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Mitchell Shire Arrears of Rates Various Works Agreed to Roads Scoured Through Heavy Rain

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 May 1931 · page 6

The monthly meeting of the Mitchell Shire Council was held yesterday, the president (Councillor'G. Lindon) presiding. Others present were:…

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Law Reform Bill Storm in Assembly No Debate On Second Reading Mr. Bavin Angry Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 5

A storm developed with amazing rapidity in the legislative Assembly today, when the Law Reform Bill passed the second reading without…

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The Weather Thunderstorm at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1931 · page 2

A thunderstorm passed over Wagga yesterday afternoon, but it was of very brief duration. Though rain fell heavily for a few minutes the total…

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The Weather Heavy Rain in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

Rain began to fall heavily in Wagga early yesterday morning and the streets were quickly deluged. With the brief thunderstorm of the previous…

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Heavy Storm at Tumbarumba Tumbarumba

Daily Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

A heavy storm occurred at Tumbarumba yesterday afternoon. The thunler was exceptionally heavy and the lightning very vivid. The storm was…

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Record Flood Creeks North of Coolamon Again Down. Serious Damage

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 15 May 1931 · page 2

The mild and unseasonable weather following last week’s rain culminated in [?] tropical [?] on Wednesday, the districts chiefly…

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Heavy Rain Kyneton Races Abandoned

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 May 1931 · page 7

For the second occasion this season a flood has caused the abandonment of a race meeting at Kyneton (V.). The heavy rains on Wednesday night…

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Ariah Park and Ardlethan Flooded

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1931 · page 3

Three hundred points of rain (not 700 as rumoured) brought down the creek at the Broken Dam, the other side of Ariah Park to a depth of 13…

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Flood

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 22 May 1931 · page 1

With the subsidence of the floodwaters it can be realised more clearly what [?] damage has been accomplished in the Dullah district, by…

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Striking Laborers Storm Town Hall Dispute Over Wages New York

Daily Advertiser · Monday 25 May 1931 · page 3

A mob of 1000 striking laborers and their wives, some of the latter with babies in their arms, stormed the Town Hall at Greenwich, the richest centre…

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More Heavy Rain. Serious Flooding

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 2

Steady rain setting in on Wednesday afternoon continued all night and at 9 a.m. on Thursday 167 points had been registered. Rain continued…

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Heavy Rain 547 Points at Newcastle Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 3

Moderate to heavy rain was recorded generally over the State yesterday, with heavy falls over the central and southern coast and…

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Plight of Unemployed Rain Soaked Bag Huts Timely Initiation of Soup Kitchen Heavy Rain on the Area

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 2

A visit to the camp of the unemployed in Leeton yesterday showed the appalling conditions under which these people live during wet weather. Their bag huts let in the rain, while in some instances the places become flooded out on the low-lying…

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Flood Rains Yass

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 1

Six years ago yesterday. Taemas bridge, over the Murrumbidgee liver, was washed away by an unprecedented flood. A repetition of that flood is…

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Flood Dangers Abating on Coast Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 3

The Weather Bureau reported today that although the flood dangers caused by the recent, heavy falls are disappearing on the north, central,…

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Two Inches at Lockhart Streets and Paddocks Flooded Lockhart

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 3

Abnormal rains, totalling almost two inches, have fallen in 24 hours. Much damage has been caused in sad around Lockhart by flood waters from the…

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