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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

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Storm Hits Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 2

Goulburn was lashed by a severe storm last night, when heavy rain fell. Later in the night, the rain…

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City Flooded in Five Minutes

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 5

HAYS (Kansas), Tuesday: A massive cloudburst turned a quiet river into a raging stream that flooded one-third of this city in five minutes, took at least lives and left 3000 people homeless yesterday…

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Lull Before Storm? Waterside In Meibourne

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 May 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE: Right Wing unions expect the watersiders' ban on New Zealand shipping to lead to a grave…

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£450 Grant For Flood Damage

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 31 May 1951 · page 2

THE GOVERNMENT has made available to the Municipal Council £450 for expenditure on streets…

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Obituary Mrs. M. Gale

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 5 June 1951 · page 7

The death occurred at St. John of God Hospital last Wednesday of Mrs. Matilda Gale, aged 78 years, of 126…

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Floods In W.A.

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 3

PERTH: The flood waters in the Campaspe have surrounded the town of Rochester, the main secret of which is two feet under…

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Heavy Rain Falls in Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 5

Up till 9 o'clock this morning 120 points fell for the previous 24 hours. Rain continued throughout the day with gutters awash, and the rivers showing signs of floods…

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Storm Warnings

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Storm warnings have been issued to N.S.W. Shipping because of a cyclonic depression east of Jervis Bay…

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Mattland Farmers Won't Return to the Land Country Ravaged By Floods

Boorowa News · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 8

Maitland farmers, who tasted the advantages of a certain income in secondary industry while their farms…

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Centre of Berlin Storm "Sugar" Ray Was Married At 16, Divorced At 19

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 June 1951 · page 2

World middleweight champion, "Sugar" Ray Robinson, who recently fled from Berlin boxing arena under a hail of bottles and stones after being disqualified for fouling, has a habit of…

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Taralga and District News Heavy Rain and Snow Recorded at Taralga Over Seven Inches for Month

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 6

Taralga has been experiencing a particularly bad spell of weather for the past month. The rainfall for the month, up till Monday, was 654 points. Further heavy falls were…

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Nepean in Flood

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 June 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Torrential rain has flooded the Nepean River and rivers on the South Coast. The Nepean [?]roke its banks…

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Storm Causes Upset in British Golf

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 6 July 1951 · page 5

LONDON: A mid-day storm, which deluged players, caused an upset of form and threw the British Open Golf Championship at Royal Portbrush wide open yesterday. Scores mounted rapidly and, at the end of an interesting day's golf, British international, Max Faulkner, led 46 qualifiers for the final 36 holes, with an aggregrate of 141…

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U.s. Floods

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 2

TOPEKA, Kansas: Record breaking floods surged over over eastern and central Kansas yesterday leaving 12 dead…

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Danger Of Floods

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: West and north-west New South Wales is in danger of flooding as rivers, swollen by rains, continue to…

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Floods Force Workers to Give Up Fight

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 5

The hood crest, 40 feet high, rolled towards St. Louis yesterday forcing levee workers north of there to give up the fight to save west Alton, despite the around-the…

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Dam To Help Flood Area

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

Work will be started on the flood mitigation dam ,at Warkworth, near Singleton. A spokesman for the…

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St. Louis Braces to Meet Flood

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wednesday braced itself for the beginning in 100 years. It has alread felt the first…

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Flood Damage Likened To An Atomic Bomb

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday: Floods in the American mid-west have dealt a blow at production comparable in some respects to an atom bomb, with damage estimated at 750 million dollars, more than £334 million. Meanwhile with St. Louis…

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Wild Storm In England

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: Two men and a woman were killed in a violent thunderstorm which swept southern England…

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