Floods in State
Sydney. — Police have evacuated about 50 families near the Nepean River, and, if it rises another foot,…
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Floods & storms, 1952
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Barwon Floods Take Toll at Geelong
Melbourne — Floodwaters from the Barwon River invaded Geelong today and forced householders in three suburban streets to evacuate, swamped nine riverside…
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Melbourne. — A second death in the Victorian floods which have turned vast areas into inland seas, occurred yesterday when the body of Walter John Bensley, 40,…
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Melbourne, —The Barwon River floodwater which is still rising rushed across the Prince's…
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Sydney. — Nearly every house in North Wagga was flooded at dawn today, when the swirling Murrumbidgee broke its banks and floodwaters raced down Wagga's main streets. The…
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Sydney, June l8. — Serious floods are sweeping through the Central West of New South Wales…
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FLOODWATERS tear across Prince's Highway, 20 miles on the Melbourne side of Sate. Trucks ploughed through, towing cars at 10/ each. Water later reached a depth of 4ft., closing the road…
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Sydney — More towns along the flooded Murrumbidgee, Lachlan and…
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THE POSTS give an idea of the depth to which this road has been submerged by floodwaters…
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Sydney—An air search was begun today for 15 people who had to evacuate their homes when floodwaters rose suddenly at Bedgerebong in Western New South Wales at 2 a.m. Flying Doctor Geoffrey Young took off from flooded Forbes to try to…
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Los Angeles, Friday.— Melbourne's Leah McCartney, "Miss Australia," may arrive in the thick of a…
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Although wash-aways are expected on the Sydney line between Condobolin and Bogan Gate with in the next twenty-four hours,…
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Again parts of the State and also of Victoria are being devastated by floods. This is indeed tragic. The forces of nature are violent…
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Sydney—Thousands of residents in towns along the flooded Lachlan and Murrumbidgee rivers were frantically attempting today to build earth and sand bag levees to hold back record floods which are expected within the next 24 hours…
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The Broken Hill-Parkes railway line was washed away late on Saturday night at Condobolin by flood waters from the Lachlan River. Despite the washaways,…
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POLICEMAN AND SOLDIER form a human bosun's chair to carry Mrs. E. Holmes to an Army duck during flood rescues at Barwon Heads (Vic.)…
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Sydney, June 23.—Residents of Darlington Point on the Murrumbidgee have been working…
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Although the flooded Lachlan River had washed away port of the Broken Hill-Parkers railway line, passenger and freight services will…
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Due to washaways on the Broken HillParkes line, the Comets due to arrive from Sydney on Thursdays at 4.50 a.m. and scheduled to leave here on Friday nights,…
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Sydney — The Flying Doctor Geoffrey Young, of Forbes, will make a hazardous landing on a hillside to take urgently needed supplies to 100 people flood-bound at Jemalong, in Central Western New South Wales…
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