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11 stories in South Coast's papers
About two thirty one Saturday afternoon, late in the month of February, 1918, I was seated in the office of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company's Goondi Sugar Mill, three miles from Innisfail, adding up a column of figures, a piece of lotting paper under my arm to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The old blackfellow was not there. He had been blown out of King's grasp shortly after we had gained the roadway. after leaving the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Between 6 and 7 o’clock on Monday evening after a sultry and threatening day Bega experienced what was probably the heaviest rainstorm in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Light rain set in on Friday night, continuing, throughout Saturday, and at night there was a deluge, rain falling in torrents, accompanied by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Most people know of the floods that took place in the Shoalhaven River in 1860 and 1870; but few persons will know any tiling of a flood that took…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →One sign of greatness is manâs ability to size up a situation and act on the spur of the moment. If signs are always right, then a certain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We are grateful to Mr. T. Marriott, of Nowra, for the following graphic description of the flood of 1870, reprinted from "The News"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not one farmer on the Boolong side has escaped, and instead of reaping a good crop, many will reap nothing, while we are led to understand that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to the swollen nature of the creeks along the Kangaroo Valley via Woodhill Road, the mailman. Mr. J. Larter, was forced to return…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →I was very much interested in the articles which appeared in your paper recently on the subject of the '70 flood. Probably there are not many…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy rain fell at Berry on Tuesday afternoon, following severs thunder and lightning. There was literally a sheet of rain tor a while,…
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