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Floods & storms, 1920

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Moderate Gales Rough Seas on Coast Driving Rain Squalls

Evening News · Monday 13 September 1920 · page 6

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Floods in Victoria The Goulburn Overflows Landholders' Fears Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 13 September 1920 · page 3

As a result of recent heavy rain and the consequent sharp rise in the Goulburn River, which reached 33ft. 6in. at Mooroopna Level, banks along the…

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Victorian Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 September 1920 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Steady rain again fell throughout the greater part of Victoria yesterday. Owing to the swollen Goulburn River breaking through the levee at…

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Wheat Belt Deluge Follows Drought Very Wet Three Months

The Sun · Sunday 19 September 1920 · page 4

Figures prepared by Mr. Mares, Slate Meteorologist, show what a seeking the wheat belt has received since the breaking of the drought…

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The Furious Namoi Floods Threatened Wee Waa

The Sun · Sunday 19 September 1920 · page 2

Floods are again threatened in the fiat country through which the Namol River flows. The Wee Waa Logeon has become a raging torrent in places…

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A Wooden Deluge Settlement Manager's Experience

Evening News · Monday 20 September 1920 · page 5

The unenviable experience of a to man of one of the soldier settlement who was threatened with a deluge wooden palings, was related at the…

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Heavy Coastal Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 September 1920 · page 6

Light to moderate, but rather scattered, rain has fallen over the southern and eastern parts of the State, The heavier falls occurred on the const, and in the south the inch was…

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Cyclonic Storm. Damage at Emmaville

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 September 1920 · page 5

EMMAVILLE, Monday.—A storm, with severe winds, occurred here on Friday, Heavy rain fell, and there was much thunder and lightning. Portions of the streets were inundated. All…

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Storm at Chiltern. House Blown Over. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 September 1920 · page 11

A thunderstorm, accompanied by wind of hurricane force, and unequalled since 1878, occurred at Chiltern to-day. A house was blown over, and other residences were unroofed…

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Cyclonic Storm. Telegraphic Services Damaged. Several Houses Demolished

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 September 1920 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tuesday--The telegraph authorities in Melbourne received news this evening that a cyclone. accompanied by rainstorms, struck Chiltern, on the main…

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When Floods Threaten DUBBO

Evening News · Wednesday 22 September 1920 · page 6

At the last meeting of the Timberbongle Shire Council Councilllor T.M. Scott [?] a lot of damage could have been a c[?] during the last big flood in the…

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Gales on the Coast. Squally, with Rough Seas

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 September 1920 · page 7

Southerly gales and rough soar were reported along the coast yesterday. In the south, at Gabo", the full force of the blow was being experienced. The storms were accompanied…

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Gales and Floods Fears in Southern U.S.A. Precautions at Galveston VANCOUVER, September 21

The Sun · Thursday 23 September 1920 · page 1

A message from New Orleans states that, warned by the Government meteorologists of the rapid approach of a West Indian hurricane, fugitives…

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Babes in the Wood. Lost During a Storm at Young

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 4

The two little daughters of Mr. P. Johnson, of Young (N.S.W.), had an [?] experience last Monday night. They had been searching for a…

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Coastal Gales Rain and Snow

The Sun · Saturday 25 September 1920 · page 5

City[?] cast Fine and cool with passing [?] ids, and shower or two likely at [?] night. Fresh to stormy and squally sot[?] herly winds and rough sea…

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After Coonamble's Flood Who Is To Pay the Bill? COONAMBLE

Evening News · Saturday 25 September 1920 · page 6

During the flood the relief committee spent £167 19a in relieving distress in the town and district, and £102 12s 9d in saving the town from inundation by flood…

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Cyclone and Flood. London, Sept. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 September 1920 · page 7

A message from Paris states that a cyclone caused much damage in the Riviera. Floods in St. Jean de Maurienne district did £1,000,000 damage. The Rhone overflowed near Brigue…

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Chiefly Fine Thunderstorms at Newcastle

Evening News · Monday 27 September 1920 · page 6

A fine week-end was reported fairly generally over the State During last night [?] clouds gathered in the central and [?] showers c[?] districts, and culminated in…

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Valley Flooded. London, Sept. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 September 1920 · page 8

A message from Geneva states that the bursting of a pocket of the Montenvers glacier (near Mont Blanc) sent masses of ice crashing down into the river, which…

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Floods in France. Paris, September 28

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 September 1920 · page 5

A cyclone has caused much damage in the Riviera. Floods have occurred In the St. Joan de Maurienne district, and It Is estimated that damage to the extent of £1,000,000 has been…

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