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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1917

5 stories in South Coast's papers

Flood-Experiences in Queensland As Told by a Shoalhavenite

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 24 March 1917 · page 1

Mr Murdo Mackenzie, writing to his people, from Queensland, gives some interesting particulars of the recent floode there:…

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Gales of Wind

The Ulladulla and Milton Times · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 7

Mr. Joseph Conrad continues his pictures of sea life in the "Pall Mail Magazine." "Of the delight of seeing a small craft run bravely amongst the great seas…

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Floods

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1917 · page 8

A message to the “S.M. Herald.” from Melbourne on Friday of last week slated that Wangaratta is the centre o f a great flood in the…

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To Warn Airmen of Thunderstorms

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 12 September 1917 · page 2

The Royal Prussian Aeronautical Observatory has instituted a service for the purpose of giving aviators warning of the approach of thunder…

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Deluge of Death

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1917 · page 3

“Our burdens however great, are light as feathers compared with those of our soldiers. Just think at this moment there are tens of thousands of them…

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