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Southern Highlands · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1943

4 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

After the Storm

The Southern Mail · Friday 28 May 1943 · page 2

Amongst losses of stock reported are: Mr. M. Maloney, Bonamot, 8 cows; Hr. Moss, Moss Vale, 18: and Hr. Brooker, Avoca. 13…

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Damage Wrought by Recent Storm Wingecarribee Shire Suffers Widespread Devastation

The Southern Mail · Friday 11 June 1943 · page 2

The widespread devastation caused on roads by landslides, washaways, collapse of trees on roadsides, and subsequent outbreak of spring which…

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Man-Made Floods

The Southern Mail · Friday 2 July 1943 · page 2

A petition is being signed in Bowral asking the railway authorities to increase the get-away for waters of Mittagong Rivulet in flood-time. The…

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Storm Cost £1000 Heavy Damage to Shire Roads

The Southern Mail · Friday 6 August 1943 · page 3

The cost of repairing storm damage to roads as the result of the recent heavy rains has been computed by Wingecarribee Shire Engineer (Mr…

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