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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

14 stories in South Coast's papers

Great Storm. New York Swept by Gale, Widespread Damage

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 June 1922 · page 2

Not only in the Wands [?]nd North Queensland do [?]nicanes cause enormous damage A [?]orm [?] precedented violence, accompanied by heavy rain, [?] over New York…

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The Flood Rains and Gales. Nine Hundred and Sixty-Five Points from Sunday to Tuesday Night. Big Loss of Cattle at Bolong. A Number Of Mr. James Knapp's Dairy Herd Drowned. Old Resident Says the Gale Had Not the Velosity of the 70 Flood. Snakes Washed Down Galore In The Flood Waters. Sport for Shootists

The Nowra Leader · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 4

On Sunday forenoon last light rain commenced to full in this district, with heavier showers in the evening, and at about 10.30 p.m. torrential rain set in…

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Torrential Baths. Shoalhaven River in Flood Low-lying Lands Inundated. Serious Losses Sustained

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 29 July 1922 · page 3

The past week has become famous for a heavy downpour of rain—one of the severest rainstorms experienced in the district. A light drizzle set in…

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The Flood OVER 12 Inches at Bega. All Mails Held Up. Bega Isolated

Southern Star · Saturday 29 July 1922 · page 2

A flood in July is most unusual in this district, but we have had one this week. It was several feet below the great flood of 1919, but has…

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The Flood

The Cobargo Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1922 · page 2

After a long spell of comparatively dry conditions, heavy squally weather sot in on Sunday night, and on Monday morning at 9 o'clock 63 points had…

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Flood Notes

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 August 1922 · page 2

Candelo hid 1350 points of rain last week. A small c[?] on Bega-Talhra road at Jellet Jellet was washed…

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Toll Of The Flood. MR. S. Thompson Drowned

The Nowra Leader · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 1

A correspondent writing says, as many of your readers were former residents of Queanbeyan district, I feel sure they would appreciate the…

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Flood Boat

The Nowra Leader · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 6

"A Tip " writes :--What is the use of the ratepayers paying to keep ft flood boat, when it won't go out to rescue people. It goes out elsewhere when the…

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Prohibition Scandal. Floods of Liquor. (Published by arrangement)

The Cobargo Chronicle · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 4

The smuggling ol liquor across the Canadian border, which has reached such a stage of perfection, it is said, that hundreds of gallons…

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Flood Prevention. Bega Farmers [?]

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 August 1922 · page 4

All Kelly recently moved in the matter of [?] something to [?] the flood [?] and at his [?] the Mayor called a meeting of…

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Terrific Storm at Albion Park

The Nowra Leader · Friday 24 November 1922 · page 9

A particularly heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by lightning and hail, occurred here on Tuesday last week. In the vicinity of the station and the…

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Terrific Storm at Albion Park

The Nowra Leader · Friday 1 December 1922 · page 1

A particularly heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by lightning and hail, occurred here on Tuesday last week. In the vicinity of the station and the…

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Terrific Storm

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 9 December 1922 · page 1

Sunday's storm, which was to the townspeople and to some parts of the neighborhood merely a welcome downpour of…

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Oceans of Liquor. (Published by Arrangement). New York Flooded

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 December 1922 · page 7

"There are oceans of liquor in New York. This city is flooded with Scotch. The smuggling of liquors from abroad by steamship is at its…

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