Man Dies After Rescue From Flood
Sydney.—A military pensioner, James Ryan (62), was found almost drowned in a hut at Hillston, which had been flooded by the Lachlan River today. Police earlier had ordered the…
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Floods & storms, 1950
386 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 20
Aero Club Plane in Floodlift
Following an appeal for light aircraft to aid the floodlift, a Broken Hill Aero Club Tiger Moth left for Bourke yesterday…
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Melbourne, August 7.—H.M.A.S. Australia sighted Heard Island in the Antarctic, at 8.47 a.m. (Heard Island time) today but because of a fresh…
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Sydney, August 7.—Thomas Brayshaw (19), son of a north-west district grazier, died at the week-end while a doctor and a police constable were trying to bring…
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Melbourne, August 7.—The first week of the fifty million pounds Tenth Security Loan campaign ended yesterday. Last night loan officials…
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Sydney.—have thousand more sandbags are being dropped into Walgett by plane today in a desperate effort to save the town from threatening floodwaters of the Namoi River…
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On Wednesday, August 16, the drama a group of the Broken Hill Evening College will present an evening of one-act plays in the…
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Sydney, August 8. —All Waigett stores closed today to free shop assistants Join in the flight against the Namol and Barwon. Rivers…
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ABOVE—Floodbound Dirranbandi in south-western Queensland. This picture was taken from an ANA freighter which…
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On Wednesday, August 16. the Drama Orcup or the Broken Hill Evening Collect will present an evening of one net plays at the Town Hall…
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Sydney, August 9.—Walgett has won the battle of the floods. The water today stopped rising when it was only 6in. from the top of the levees around the…
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With a gift of £1 from Envoy and Mrs. J. Crocker, the flood relief fund of the Country Women's Association totals £121/13/…
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Last week the State Minister for Conservation (Mr. G. Weir) said the State Government would act drastically to meet the lessons of the recent disastrous floods…
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Floodwater on the main Sydney-Broken Hill railway line, between here and Condobolin, has become stationary. Crystal Street stationmaster (Mr…
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Gifts of 5/ from Mrs. W. Ledgard and 2/ each from Mrs. J. C. Campbell and R. Renalson brought the flood relief fund of the…
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Sydney.—Five people were ejected by police at a noisy Liberal Party political meeting at Drummoyne last night…
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Sydney, August 14.—Floodbound Brewarrina residents think their township will be isolated for another month. A two miles long levee has protected the…
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Police at Wilcannia and Menindee have all arrangements in hand to meet any flood danger. Already six families who were living along the river bank near Menindee have vacated their homes and…
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A local business man who left here on Tuesday last for Sydney by train had a 36-hour trip and crossed over a flooded section of the line in darkness at one o'clock in the morning…
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Sydney.—Townspeople of Bourke, in far-western New South Wales, have mobilised to meet the threat of floodings as waters from the swollen River Darling continue to rise. The bulk of the floodwaters…
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