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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Floods & storms
796 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 9 of 40
A number of residents in Cunran Lana petitioned Orange City Council for repairs to be carried out to the roadway, claiming that their homes had been flooded during recent heavy rain storms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A heavy rainstorm yesterday spoiled the Orange Cup as a spectacle for the crowd of between 3000 and 4000 people. Hundreds of people on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storms with winds up to 65 miles an hour continued yesterday to pound North Atlantic shipping. Even the largest liners, including…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Swept in from a northerly direction, masses of dark storm clouds gathered over Lithgow for an hour before the storm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday: Torrential rain had caused extensive damage to electricity generations equipment at Burrinjuck power station, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PARKES, Wednesday: Heavy rain in Central and Southern NSW last night and today has derailed a train, dislocated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday: Army ducks and police boats are hurriedly being collected tonight at danger points and northern Victoria and southern…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--About 6,000 people are being evacuated from Wagga, which is threatened with severe flooding by flood waters rushing down the Tumut and Murrumbidgee Rivers and converging on the town…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Floodwaters are gathering tonight in an are in N.S.W. from Canberra and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Marcher, winner of the 1950 Orange Cup yesterday, nearly did not take his place in the field. The float in which he made the trip from Young yesterday was bogged in a flood for threequarters…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →HUNDREDS of families have been moved in higher ground following the flooding of lowlying areas at Wagga, and many more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WAGGA, Thursday — More than 2000 people living in the Northern suburbs of Wagga were evacuated today to pavilions and horsestalls at the Showground to escape the worst flood in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Friday. — Storms which raised mountainous seas on the entire breadth of the North Atlantic continued to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →There were signs tonight that the floodwaters in the Murrumbidgee had reached their peak. Early tonight the river was 33 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ORANGE, Friday: Although no reports of rain have been received to-day there is still clanger existing from floods in some areas of the west…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supplies of Vital materials for Emmco factory, Orange, are expected at the weekend despite serious hold-ups by floods to a convoy of trucks at Renmark, South Australia, and Gundagai, N.S.W. The material most vitally…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forbes was surrounded by floodwaters last night, and the only means of communication with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WAGGA, Friday.— Latest reports indicate that the Murrumbidgee River may have reached its peak, and that the position at Wagga should now improve. Late yesterday afternoon the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MESA (Arizona), Sunday.— Seven persons were killed when a converted B25 Mitchell bomber crashed and burned near…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Sunday: Flood wasters from the Murrumbidgee River in southern N.S.W. are creeping towards the town of…
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