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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

392 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 11 of 20

Five Men[?] Flood[?]

Central Western Daily · Saturday 2 July 1949 · page 11

LONDON, Friday.— [?] anxiously by at the pit-head, [?] battle between an [?] waters, five Gloucestershire [?]…

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Gale Winds Lash New York

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 5

NEW YORK. Tuesday [?] violent [?] with gale winds up to 50 m.p.h. iashed…

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Aid for Flood Victims Parkes Effort

National Advocate · Wednesday 6 July 1949 · page 4

PARKES, Tuesday: A public meeting at Parkes decided to use for flood relief at Maitland and other centres the balance of a fund which was…

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Hls1. Help for Flood Victims

Central Western Daily · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 1

Orange sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League voted £10 at its meetings on Monday night to assist Digger victims of the Hunter Valley floods…

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Aid for Flood Victims

Central Western Daily · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 5

MILLTHORPE. — Money raised by the Millthorpe Rugby League football club for the Maitland Flood Relief…

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Storm Damage in N.z

National Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1949 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Friday: A storm which [?]ew in from the Tasman Sen ha[?]wept wide areas of New Zealand [?]ausing damage and disorganising…

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Gesture by Migrants Bathurst Camp Fund For Flood Victims

National Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1949 · page 2

Moved by the sufferings of flood victims on the Hunter River. A number of migrants at Bathurst Camp opened a fund to assist the distressed…

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Elephant Invasion Following Floods

Central Western Daily · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday. — Drought has caused forest fires in Western Europe, and an in vasion of coastal areas in Kenya by elephants seeking water…

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Joe Glasson’s Looking Glass Severe Flood of 1934 Changed Face of Orange Stormwater Channel Re-Constructed

Central Western Daily · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 7

When the Central Western Daily office was built in 1924—then constructed by the proprietors of the Orange Advocate— provision was made to ensure the building against the inrush of flood waters…

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Aid for Flood Victims £80,000 Granted

National Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday; A total of £30,000 will be made available by the commonwealth and the New South Wales governments to repair damage…

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Snow Causes Floodings Many Roads Blocked

National Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Snow and rain are sweeping N.S.W. and Victoria. Torrential rain and heavy snow have fallen in Victoria, causing…

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Review of Flood Losses 10,000 Persons Affected SYDNEY

National Advocate · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 2

Sixteen hundred homes were completely inundated, 10,000 people were forced to leave their homes and between £1,000,000 and £5,000,000…

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Through Cyclone and Flood (By G. T. CHIPPENDALL, Director General Posts and Telegraphs)

National Advocate · Saturday 23 July 1949 · page 3

It is a sobering thought, and one which affects the Post Office administration and the staff in general. when we reflect that all the other…

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Disastrous Floods Sweep China

Central Western Daily · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 3

HONGKONG, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).— The Peiping Radio claimed that over 19,000,000 people have been rendered…

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More Rough Weather Heavy Rain on Coast SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 2

Many parts of the NSW coast had heavy rain and gale-force winds today. At times, winds exceeded 50 miles…

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Red Cross Assists Maitland Flood Victims

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 2

The acting president Mrs D Bry[?] in her report to the annual meeting of the Bathurst branch of the Red Cross Society said that an urgent…

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Records Of Heavy Snowfalls; Fierce Storm of 1900

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 4

Since the big snowfall of last week, a great deal of controversy has been going on among old residents concerning dates and measurements of previous heavy falls…

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Flood Crisis at Maitland Rescue Squads Ready

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 1

MAITLAND, Tuesday: In the Hunter Valley, the town of Maitland is preparing for a crisis tomorrow morning in its second flood in six weeks…

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Flood Climax Expected To-day

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 1

MAITLAND, This Afternoon.-- Residents are anxiously watching the Hunter River rise inch by inch and the climax…

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Flood Danger at Maitland Crisis This Morning

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 27 July 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Maitland in the Hunter Valley is preparing for its second flood in six weeks. The Hunter and its…

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