Border Morning Mail. 10 October 1944, 2. Transcript: We spill out our wealth and sacrifice young lives to win a war and are joyous over the victory but we baulk at the idea of spending money in peace time on vast development schemes such as water conservation and irrigation that would in the long run […]
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Border Morning Mail. 26 May 1945, 8. Transcript: DROUGHT DESOLATION SEEN ABOUT ALBURY. Federal Officer Says We May Get More Wheat. When Mr S. Hodgson, assistant Director of Agricultural Production, came to Albury on Thursday to inspect the district because of urgent representations for fodder relief, he was shown grim scenes of desolation about the
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Border Morning Mail, March 1938. Transcript: POSITION BECOMES DISTURBING. The first two months of 1938 have produced almost drought conditions and records on the rain gauge at the Albury Post Office show that the period has been the driest for five years. Figures obtained yesterday reveal that for February 164 points of rain fell on
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‘Inigo Jones’s Forecast,’ Wodonga and Towong Sentinel, 26 January 1940, 2. Transcript: In a forecast bulletin issued by Mr Inigo Jones… the prediction is made that drought conditions will prevail until April, 1940, that there will be thunderstorms and heavy rains in late March and April; that there will be heat waves early in
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J L Dow, ‘Goulburn Valley Farming: An Irrigation Contrast,’ Leader, 15 February 1902, 6. Transcript: On the other side of the Goulburn, where the irrigation is, a population of nearly 503 is found on the nearest 2000 acres abutting on Shepparton alone; and as for production, the scene is simply a repetition of Passadena,
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‘The Drought,’ Australian Star, 29 April 1902, 6. Transcript: The continued drought has caused the Albury station yard to have quite an animated appearance this week from the increased amount of labour that is being employed in consequence of the hundreds of tons of chaff and compressed hay arriving from Ballarat, Wangaratta, Benalla, Kyneton,
Bendigo Independent, 12 March 1901, p. 2 Story: This extract from the Bendigo Independent illustrates failing water supply in Bendigo in the later years of the Federation drought. The cumulative effect of years of below average rainfall meant water levels in the Coliban System (the city’s main source of domestic water supply) dropped dramatically. While
