Thousands of persons are homeless and hundreds unemployed as the result of Friday's terrific gale responsible for widespread distress, the loss of numerous lives, and damage estimated at £500,000 in the metropolitan area. Over the week end reports came to hand regarding dangerous floodings ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 108 wordsWODONGA, Sunday.--Two graziers with properties in the vicinity of Tawonga set out several days ago in charge of cattle en route to the Bogong High ...
Article : 261 wordsBBUTHEN, Sunday.--Although the floods in the Tambo River were not as large as others, they will prove disastrous, because all the maize had been ...
Article : 106 wordsHEYFIELD. Sunday.--The floods reached the highest, point, on Saturday When rail and road communication with neighboring towns was cut off. On ...
Article : 500 wordsKOOWEERUP, Sunday.--Kooweerup is isolated as the outcome of the severest flood in its history. About 1000 people are homeless and have lost everything ...
Article : 271 wordsMOE, Sunday.--Miles of country on the Latrobe and Tanjil rivers, main drain and Narracan Creek have been submerged. A fall of eight inches of ...
Article : 304 wordsSALE, Sunday.--Flood waters cover the country to the south and west of the town of Sale. On the south boundary, in the vicinity of the common, with few ...
Article : 579 wordsNARRE WARREN, Sunday.--Heavy rain commenced to fell on Thursday night and continued almost incessantly until Saturday morning, when at 9 a.m. ...
Article : 310 wordsKOOWEERUP, Sunday.--Washed from a jinker while attempting to cross the flooded Tarago River at Longwarry North, Cr. D. Dowd, senior, 55 years, of ...
Article : 445 wordsMT. GAMBLER, Sunday.--Caught in the cyclonic disturbance near Portland yesterday, Pilot R. J. Carter mid Lieutenant A. Kenna, of Adelaide, had ...
Article : 128 wordsHelp for nearly 500 refugees from Kooweerup, including four hospital cases from the local hospital, was provided during the week end by the Railway ...
Article : 123 wordsTRAFALGAR, Sunday.--Trafalgar resembled a beseiged town. The Princes Highway, west and east, is under water. The railway line is washed out. From ...
Article : 409 wordsThe following summary indicating the state of important motoring roads was issued by the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria last night:-- ...
Article : 163 wordsWONTHAGGI, Sunday.--Damage to the extent of thousands of pounds has been done by the storm, which broke over Wonthaggi and the surrounding ...
Article : 445 wordsThe four members of the State Cabinet who were in Melbourne during the week were in constant consultation over what the Premier described as "a terrible ...
Article : 501 wordsFor to-day the terminus of south Gippsland line will be Kooweerup [?]41 miles from Melbourne. On the main Gippsland line trains will run as far as ...
Article : 203 wordsLANG LANG, Sunday.--The floods have subsided at Caldermeade, but there have been heavy losses of stock by drowning in this district. Chief sufferers ...
Article : 213 wordsMIRBOO NORTH. Sunday--From 8 p.m. Thursday to noon Saturday 1050 points of rain fell here. Floods in creeks and rivers have done extensive ...
Article : 203 wordsKORUMBURRA, Sunday.--The worst storm in the history of the district was experienced here. Thu rain, which started on Thursday afternoon, was ...
Article : 274 wordsNearly 1000 lb. of yeast was dropped in various isolated Gippsland towns yesterday by aircraft. The yeast was a gift from two manufacturing companies ...
Article : 401 wordsBELGRAVE, Sunday.--Exceptional rainfall at Silvan--13 inches being recorded in the gauge at Silvan dam during the last three days--caused damage yesterday to the pipe line. ...
Article : 179 wordsLANG LANG, Sunday.--The entire settlement of Catani was under ten feel of water this morning. Word reached Lang Lang that the twenty or thirty ...
Article : 126 wordsSEYMOUR, Sunday.--The floods in this district were the most disastrous and the worst for the last eighteen years. Heavy rain in the watershed, and local creeks ...
Article : 404 wordsROSEDALE, Sunday.--As the result of a phenomenal rainfall of 512 inches in the 48 hours, the whole of the town was inundated. The Latrobe River flooded ...
Article : 346 wordsBENALLA, Sunday.--As a result of the rains the Broken River has risen considerably, but there is no danger of floods. The cold snap yesterday caused ...
Article : 196 wordsLEONGATHA, Sunday.--A fall of 9 inches 5 points of rain in 40 hours, commencing at 5 p.m. on Thursday, caused the rivers and creeks to overflow their ...
Article : 332 wordsTOORA. Sunday.--This portion of South Gippsland is entirely isolated by the worst flood in history. Families art isolated, and drownings have been ...
Article : 340 wordsYALLOURN, Sunday. --Numerous homes and dairying farms on the fertile Latrobe Hals have been abandoned. Settlers' homes in many instances have ...
Article : 195 wordsWARBURTON, Saturday.--The flood at Warburton was the worst within living memory. Last evening the river rose at the rate of more than a fool an hour ...
Article : 422 wordsMAFFRA, Sunday.--Rain started here on Thursday afternoon and continued for forty hours, accompanied by heavy gales, a total of 369 points being registered. ...
Article : 351 words[?]YALLOURN, Sunday.--Rescue work along the Latrobe flats was continued throughout yesterday. Two of the settlers who were menaced--Messrs. ...
Article : 180 wordsConditions at Yering, beyond Lillydale, were described by local residents as remarkable. No portion of the new railway viaduct, between Yering and Yarra ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 3 Dec 1934, Page 12
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