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Floods & storms, 1924

1,078 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 54

Country Floods Victoria Suffers Melbourne

Evening News · Wednesday 27 August 1924 · page 5

REPORTS of floods are coming in from many country towns, Bridges have been swept away, and much domestic property has been…

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Floods in Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 August 1924 · page 14

Rivers throughout Victoria are in flood, following the heavy rains of Monday and today. The Yarra has been rising a foot an hour to-day, and broke its banks. People…

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Rising Waters Border Towns Report Floods Stock Being Moved to Higher Ground

The Sun · Wednesday 27 August 1924 · page 7

From both sides of the border of Victoria and New South Wales come reports of rising rivers. The Commonwealth Government Meteorologist in Victoria expects the rivers to rise still higher…

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Splendid Rains All Over State Thunderstorms Experienced-- Cyclonic Disturbance Expected Over Tasman Sea-- Finer in the West Rough Seas

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 27 August 1924 · page 5

Bountiful rain fell ever the State of New South Wales yesterday. Many of the falls exceeded one inch, and even two inches were registered in…

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Heavy Floods Damage in Victoria Yarra Still Rising Railway Delays Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 August 1924 · page 9

Residents in low-lying districts near the Yarra are anxious on account of the rapidly-rising river. Many places are flooded,…

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Patterson's Storm Opponent Overwhelmed Wood's Hard Fight Forest Hills (N.j.)

The Sun · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 12

Gorbault, who was beaten by Gerald Patterson in a round of the United States National singles championship to-day. 6-4, 6-1, 6-1, was unable to…

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Floods at Gundagai. Gundagai

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 10

The river at Gundagai is rising fast, and is now 25 feet above summer level, the highest reached since 1922, when 31 feet was touched at the time of the flood. A good…

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Murray Rising. Serious Flood Unlikely. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 10

As the weather has cleared to-day, fear has been removed that there will be a serious flood in the Murray. However, the rise will be the most considerable since 1919, the river…

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Flood Waters Township Isolated Families Marooned Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 10

Latest reports from Kooweerup indicate that the position has become worse. In the main street the shops and houses are under water, and in…

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Flood Damage Settlers Homeless Forced to Flee Schoolboy Drowned MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 5

At Kooweerup the settlers are homeless and broken-hearted. Like miniature, mud-colored seas, broken here and here by islands and…

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Flood of Cheap Milk Illawarra's Lost Trade Albion Park

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 8

The report of the Illawarra Central Co-operative Dairy Co., presented to the annual meeting today, disclosed that the milk treated for the Sydney…

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Floods at Gundagai

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 August 1924 · page 5

GUNDAGAI, Wednesday.--Consequent upon the heavy rains on the upper reaches of the Murrumbidgee. floods are feared. This river this…

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SUMMARY Atlantic Gale --

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 1

A terrific sale, reaching a velocity of 100 miles an hour, has raged over the Atlantic Ocean. Waves forty and fifty feet in height…

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Gale on the Atlantic. Travellers Injured. New York, Aug. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 9

The White Star liner Arabic has arrived with over 50 ot the people on board injured through the terrific gale which has been raging on the Atlantic during the last three…

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Murray Floods Families Homeless Police to Rescue ALBURY

Evening News · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 8

The Murray is in flood, it rose steadily during the night, and this morning had reached the 17ft 2in point, the highest since the record…

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Flood Victims Narrow Escapes Farmer Drowned Stock Left Behind Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 August 1924 · page 7

No one slept in Kooweerup last night. Soaked and hungry, and with the ominous surgo of the ever-rising tide of waters in their ears,…

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Damage by Floods. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 16

As a result of the flood waters of the Mitta Mitta and the Kiewa rivers not having got away before the flood from the Upper Murray reached Albury, the Murray here has…

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Good Rains. North-west Benefits. Floods in Riverina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 16

Good rains have been experienced in the north-east quarter of the State, and heavy falls were recorded on the north-western slopes and plains and the northern tablelands…

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Camera Glimpses of People and Events When the Yarra Overflows---Melbourne Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 August 1924 · page 12

Victorian floods.--The Yarra at Kooyong. The house partially submerged in the centre of the picture is the Scotch College boatshed, which stands on the bank of the river. The glory of the soldier in days of peace.--The guard of honor marching to the wedding of Mr. W. Filmer-Sankey, Lifeguards, and Lady Ursula Grosvenor, elder daughter of the…

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Marriage Bells GALE--DOVE

The Sun · Sunday 31 August 1924 · page 22

At St. James's Church recently Miss Jean Johnstone Dove, niece of Mrs. Macfie Poole, of King's Lynn, Kirribilll, was married to Mr. John Henry…

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