Mudgee Flood Water Enters Homes
MUDGEE, Thursday: The flood which swept Mudgee this morning was the biggest for more than 20 years. Water entered at least eight homes…
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Floods & storms, 1952
390 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 15 of 20
Big Floods in North
SYDNEY, Thursday: maitland and Kemp[?], have been invaded by floodwaters. It is estimated that 6000 people are…
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Two men narrowly escaped being drowned when a truck, loaded with beer and vegetables, was swept off a concrete causeway by floodwaters ravine down Sodwalls Creek. The truck, which…
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MAITLAND, This Afternoon.--The Hunter River broke its banks at Maitland at 6.45 a.m. today, when water swirled into the city, making the outlook somewhere as bad as the tragic 1949 flood. Sandbag levees, built throughout the night and continually reinforced, failed to…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Disastrous floods are again striking coastal New South Wales, with…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Although hundreds of people In the area are still homeless, Maitland has been saved by levee bankes from a major…
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A meeting of the Abercromble shire Council works and finance committee will me held on Friday August 22 to consider flood complaints and…
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LONDON, Sunday: In England, authorities have [?] the evacuation of a little holiday town, Lynmas, in North Devon,…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Just north of Sydney, an RAAF helicopter spent seven hours today carrying food to 300 people isolated by floods in the…
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WARREN, Sunday: A baby aged 12 months was drowned in floodwaters at Warren today. The child, Barry John Lee, fell from…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--The Sydney Weather Bureau today warned of unsettled weather developing in the south of the State. It said this could lead to fresh anxiety in the northern…
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LONDON, Monday. Thirty-eight people are now believed to have lost their lives in England's worst flood…
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Bathurst. Flood Relief Committee [?] at the Town Hall yesterday afternoon to consider the amounts of felief to be alloted to applicants…
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LONDON, Monday: Twenty two people are known to have perished in the nightmare flood avalanche which swept half of…
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LONDON, Tuesday.--Two young Victorians, Joyce Hiscock (22) and Gwen Oxley (23), are missing from the flood devastated Lynmouth area of North Devon. It is now believed they were among those swept from their beds to death in the sea by the roaring torrent, which tore through the…
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LONDON, Monday— Twenty-two people are known to have perished in tire…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Minister for social Welfare, Mr. Finnan, estimates thai the recent floods caused damage amounting to £2,500,000…
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Reports of the biggest flood in living memory in Wolgan Valley's ghost town of Newnes reached Lithgow yesterday afternoon when a valley farmer, Mr. J. Dormer, reached the city after clearing a…
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Heavy rains fell during last week, causing the Coolah Creek and Talbragar River to flood…
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The second distribution of Hood relief moneys was made yesterday when cheques of £10 each were sent from the Bathurst Town Hall. The victims…
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