M.u. Aids Flood Victims in State
Grand Master of the Manchester Unity Lodge in New South Wales (Bro. E. Colley) said today that it was impossible to describe the damage caused by doods in the Maitland-Kempsey area…
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Floods & storms, 1950
386 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 20
Flood Relief
Mrs. W. Blight, of Wilson Street, has given [?] to the flood relief fund of the Country Women's Association. That brings the total…
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Sydney, July 12.—Rain has eased in most of New South Wales and major or widespread flooding is net now expected on coastal [?]reams. Flood…
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The weather for the past week has been very Cold and threatening rain almost continuously. Heavy frosts have been experienced and heavy fog in early morning. The roads generally are passable but rather sticky. Flood waters are again rising in the…
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Sydney. — Floods prevented ambulance men or doctors treating a Polish migrant who burned himself in his home at flooded…
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Sydney, July 20.—Residents in the north and central western areas of New South Wales have been alerted for disastrous floods for the second time within three months. The N.S.W. Weather Bureau tonight issued flood warnings for nine…
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Sydney.—Hundreds of families have been evacuated from Wellington and between Dubbo and Warren, in face of severe flooding by the Bell and Macquarie River systems. Flood warnings have also been…
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Sydney.—A severe rain storm which deluged the metropolitan area yesterday caused damage estimated at nearly £1,000,000. Several low-lying suburbs, including Surry Hills, Woolloomooloo and Undercliff, were flooded to a depth of nearly two feet before the water could escape…
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Sydney. July 23.—Sydney was lashed by a freak storm today. It disrupted traffic and communications and causea damage estimated at more than £100,000…
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Sydney, July 23:—Faced with the most disastrous flood since 1910, one-third of Moree (population 6,500) was under water tonight with the peak of the floodwaters yet to be reached. An unidentified man is believed to have been…
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The township of Menindee has received a warning from official quarters to prepare for floodings in four of five weeks time when water…
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Sydney, July 24:—Backwaters of the flooded Hunter River at Maitland are sweeping into more than a dozen homes which had just been made habitable after the May floods. In north-western N.S.W. hundreds of families have already been…
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The C.W.A. would like to bring before the public the urgent need for a better response to the Flood Victims Appeal Fund. The response to the…
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Sydney. — Hundreds of thousands of sheep are feared lost as a result of severe floodings in pastoral lands in the north-west of New South Wales. Many sheep have been drowned and others will die of starvation as a result of the floods…
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Places along the Darling River from Bogabilla, on the Queensland border, to Wentworth have been warneet to expect [?]o[?]ing in…
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Sydney, July 25:—More rain is forecast for most of the State and high levels will be maintained in all inland rivers and streams, with serious flooding in parts. High levels will continue in all coastal streams. Local flooding is expected for the…
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The Darling River is expected to break its banks as a result of the heavy rains being experienced near its source, and police have issued warnings to residents along the river to prepare to leave their homes and evacuate to high ground…
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With the aid of 10/- from Mrs. Wilberth, of 568 Williams Street, the Country Women's Association flood relief fund has reached £65…
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Sydney, July 26:—For the third time in four months Forbes (population 7,000) is cut into three islands by swiftly flowing floodwaters from the Lachlan River. One-hundred houses are inundated, in some the water is five feet deep, in…
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Roma, July 28.—Prom Condamine, 100 in miles out of Roma, to the S.A. border practically all road transport is paralysed by flood rains. Today Roma had…
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