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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1929

12 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Floods Subsiding Great Damage on the Manning

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 2

Farmers in the Manning River district were heavy sufferers from the floods that have caused great damage on the mid-north coast…

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Horth Coast Flooded. Two Men Drowned. Enormous Damage to Farm Lands

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 13 February 1929 · page 4

The torrential rains which feil in the North Coast, diatriets, between Gioncester and Grafton, during the post week, caosed heavy, floods on…

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Floods Third Wash Away. Mail Trains Delayed

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 February 1929 · page 2

For the third time in five days, Northern railway services have been disorganised as a result of a cloud. burst in the Duri Currabubula…

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The St. Ledger Case Judge Thinks It Storm in Teacup. to Go to High Court

Robertson Mail · Friday 22 February 1929 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

The St. Ledger case was before Judge Coyle at Goulburn Quarter Sessions last week. This was a sequel to a conviction…

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Fate of the National Party. "There is a tide in the affairs of men that taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted all the current of their lives lie amid shoals and dangers."

Robertson Mail · Friday 18 October 1929 · page 1

IT IS THE COMMON RULE in human systems that the name survives long after the soul has departed. It has been…

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Record Storm 130 Points of Rain in 25 MINUTES

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 19 November 1929 · page 2
Also in The Southern Mail

A thunderstorm of unusual intensity visited the Southern Highlands on Saturday. It was accompanied by vivid lighting and great damage was…

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Storm victims Three Bodies Recovered

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 20 November 1929 · page 4

The bodies of the there chill on[?]h wore overwheimed by storm during lait Thursday's storm were recovered on Saturday…

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Echoes of the Storm

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 23 November 1929 · page 2

At Tuesday night's council meeting Mrs. Una Lear wrote asking that the engineer inspect the damage that had been done to her premises in…

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After the Storm Complaints to the Council. "People Who Build on Low-Lying Land, take Risks," says Ald. Moss

The Southern Mail · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 3

If people build on low-lying land, bought cheaply, they must not expect the Council to spend other ratepayers money to save them from the results…

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After the Storm Complaints to the Council. "People Who Build on Low Lying Land, take Risks," says Aid. Moss

Robertson Mail · Tuesday 26 November 1929 · page 3

If people build on low-lying land, bought cheaply, they must not expect the Council to spend other ratepayers money to save them from the results…

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