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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1927

11 stories in South Coast's papers

Remembers Archer. Old TrainerJ. Smith Retires. Famous Horses of Terara Stud. Great Ones Lost In Gale of 1876

The Nowra Leader · Friday 25 March 1927 · page 1

At a recant meeting of the Australian Jockey Club Committee, the No. [?] trainer's license of James Smith was transferred to his sop, J. C…

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Traffic Held Up on Main Road at Broughton Village. Motorists Indignant. Car Wrecked in the Flood Waters of Brown's Creek

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 20 April 1927 · page 7

One of the largest floods experienced for many years occurred on Saturday, when about 12 inches of rain fell, causing the river to flood…

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Traffic Held Up on Main Road at Broughton Village. Motorists Indignant. Car Wrecked in the Flood a Waters of Brown's Cree[?]

The Nowra Leader · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 1

One of the largest floods experienced for many years occurred on Saturday, when about 12 inches rain fell, causing the river to flood…

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The Flood Weather

The Nowra Leader · Friday 22 April 1927 · page 3

The district of Shoalhavon received its share of the recent flood rains throughout tho State as well as the cyclone which accompanied it. The…

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Notes from the Storm-Swept City

The Bega District News · Monday 25 April 1927 · page 2

We arrived here on Good Friday morning, since which Sydney has been swept by blinding storms, probably the worst ever experienced, at…

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Toll of the Flood. Harold Spark Drowned

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Wednesday 27 April 1927 · page 2

Some days ago a young man named Harold Spark, son of Mr. Joseph Spark, of Talwong (and nephew of Mr. Jonathan Spark, of…

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Word From Our Overlanders. They Strike Floods and Frosts

The Bega District News · Thursday 16 June 1927 · page 2

Mr Tilghman wired from Farina, South Australia, on Tuesday:— We arrived here last night, after appalling experiences in flooded…

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The Circus Cyclone

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 1

You must see this great picture at the local cinema theatre to-morrow night. Jack Manning rescues a a beautiful horse in a small circus…

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The Big Flood. (Published by Arrangement)

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 2 July 1927 · page 4

According to a compilation printed in the "Herald-Tribune" (New York) "the net result of national Prohibition has been to increase the…

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The Big Flood

The Bega District News · Monday 4 July 1927 · page 2

According to a compilation printed in the “Herald Tribune,” New York, the net result of national prohibition has been to increase the…

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A Gale in September

The Bega District News · Thursday 6 October 1927 · page 4

To north and south, and east, and west, The wind sweeps on, and it knows [?] a rest;…

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