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South Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1941

6 stories in South Coast's papers

Severe Thunderstorm

The South Coast Register · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

At about 1 p.m. to-day just an our “working people” were going home for lunch, Berry was visited by a terrific thunderstorm, accompanied…

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Railways in Flood Time How the Safety of the Track Is Ensured

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 2

The breaking of a long drought almost inevitably has its repercussions. The State’s latest experience, while greatly benefiting the man on the…

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Heavy Rain

The South Coast Register · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 2

Berry was visited by a heavy thunderstorm on Sunday last, and in a very short time the watercourses were flooded. The…

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Dismissal of Employee Storm at Bega Factory Meeting

The Bega District News · Monday 28 April 1941 · page 2

The half-yearly meetings of shareholders of Bega Co-operative Creamery invariably pass off without any untoward discussion, but at the…

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Bridge At Floodgates Will Not Be Closed South Shoalhaven Council Agrees to Take Control

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 21 May 1941 · page 9

The notification that the Brundee Swamp Drainage Trust intended to close to traffic the bridge over the embankment at the floodgates caused…

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An Old Time Flood

The Bega District News · Monday 29 December 1941 · page 2

(Reading of the following account may be somewhat out of place at precent but it will at least let [?] know that it can [?] here…

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