Silting of Weirs As Cause of Inland Floods M.L.A. Urges Blowing Up Of Flood Gates
Silting up of weirs in the Lachlan River was one cause of recent serious flooding said Mr. R. G. Medcalf (CP…
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State Must Meet Flood Costs
SYDNEY, Thursday: The N.S.W. Government would apparently have to meet the fall cost of restoration of recent flood-damaged areas, the State Minister for Public Works (Mr…
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The State Member for Wagga (Mr. E. H. Graham) stated today that, following his personal representations…
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Following sultry conditions heavy rain fell at Gundagai last night. The recording this morning was 181 points. The rain was accompanied by a severe thunderstorm. Rain commenced to fall at…
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Wagga was drenched by a heavy thunderstorm late yesterday afternoon. Half an inch of rain fell in less than 30 minutes…
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The building of levee banks along streams has often seemed to offer the obvious and the best…
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A total of 160 points in rain were registered in one of the most severe storms to take at Tumut on Wedensday night The…
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A very severe windstorm struck Junee and the district; tide morning. At times it reached gale…
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The heavy rain at Tumut this year was indicated in the monthly report of the District Agronomist Four inches in September brought the total to 28 inches for the April-September period…
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LOS ANGELES, Friday (A.A.P.) Gigantic explosions on the sun set off a ch[?] reaction which resulted [?]…
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LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.): Britain's fund to aid the victims of the great West England floods which wrecked…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: Twentyseven people, including women and a small child, were ship-wrecked on Moreton Island today. Howling westerly winds…
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At the height of the terrific gale which struck Gundagai early on Friday morning, the washer shed at the Gundagai Asparagus Farm was completely wrecked, and many of the fifty men who were working in the shed were injured, one…
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At the height of the terrific gale which struck Gundagai early on Friday morning last, the washer…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The Federal Government had refused to assist country areas in New South Wales that…
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MEXICO CITY, Thursday (AAP): Thousands of the sons in Mexico's flood-[?]tated Gulf Coast are [?]…
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SYDNEY, Monday — Torrential rain has isolated many towns and hamlets on a 90 mile stretch of the south coast…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: There is no risk at present of serious flooding on N.S.W. inland rivers, although…
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Heavy rain in the Murrumbidgee River catchment area is expected to cause a rise which will bring the river height at Wagga to about 25 feet by Thursday. At Gundagai, the river at 9 o'clock yesterday…
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This year will be noted for the number of floods experienced, one or two of which have reached serious dimensions…
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