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

Floods & storms, 1952

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65 Points Fell During Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 January 1952 · page 1

Goulburn's worst dry spell of the year was broken by a welcome rainstorm on Friday night. Following a day of sunshine and heat, winds accompanied by…

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Gales Lash Gosford

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: Violent gales battered the central cast of New South Wales during the night, wrecking homes and…

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Severe Electrical Storm Hits District

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 3

Shortly before New Year a heavy storm broke over Taralga. Unfortunately, the storm caused a lot of damage and little or no…

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Three Ships in Peril in Atlantic Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Monday: Three ships, two oil tankers and a freighter, are focal points in a grim rescue endeavour, involving more than 100 lives. They are the 7266 ton…

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Floods in North?

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Weather Bureau officials said to-day there was a danger of local flooding if heavy rain continued…

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Storm And Roads: £1000 Damage In Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 27 February 1952 · page 1

Damage to Goulburn roads caused by a cloudburst Friday would cost more than £1,000 to repair, City…

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£1000 Storm Damage at Goulburn

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 2

Damage to Goulburn roads caused by a cloudburst last Friday would cost more than £1,000 to repair. City Engineer, Mr. W…

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THUNDERSTORM Over an Inch at Yass River

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 3

In a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon some parts of the district received much needed rain. At Yass River over an inch was…

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Miss Lois Gale, of West Goulburn, Honoured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 2

On Friday, February 22, parishioners and friends of the West Goulburn-Lake Bathurst Parish gathered in the West Goulburn hall to make a presentation to Miss Leis Gale in view of her approaching marriage to Mr. Malcolm Hussell. On…

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Prawns—And A Storm In A Teacup

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 7

Lithgow City Council has decided to protest to the A.B.C. against what it alleged was "bad publicity" concerning…

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10 Men Drowned: 49 Missing in 90 M.p.h. Gales

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 5

LONDON: At least ten seamen have been and 49 more are missing from three ships believed to have foundered during a 90 m.p.h. hurricane in the North Sea at the…

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U.n. Building Hit by Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 March 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK: Caught in a Violent rainstorm, the brand new United Nations' conference building sprang leaks in a dozen…

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Heavy District Rain: 6 Inches In 5 Days At Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 24 March 1952 · page 1

Heavy rain throughout the Goulburn district at the week-end caused damage to many homes and blocked roads, while lightning struck at Marulan, resulting in dislocation to rail and postal communications. It was Goulburn's wettest…

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Political Storms in United States

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday: The resignation of the U.S. Attorney-General, J. Howard McGrath, was announced by President Truman yesterday a few hours after Mr. McGrath had dismissed the…

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Floods in America

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK: The worst flood for 70 years rolled down Missouri Valley yesterday as thousands of…

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Missouri Still Goes Rolling Along in Flood

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 April 1952 · page 3

OMAHA (Nebraska), Monday: The Missouri River valley floods, covering over a million and a quarter acres in nine States from North Dakota to Southern Nebraska, have driven an estimated…

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Flood Threat to Campers

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 1

Seven of the first fourteen days of April were wet with a total of 301 points. The heaviest fall was on Sunday night, when…

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Truman to Fly to Areas Hit by Floods

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 5

WASHINGTON: President Truman has called for an emergency conference in the heart of the mid-western flood area with the Governors of seven stricken States…

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Floods on S. Coast

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 3

Rain has blocked Far South Coast roads following torrential rain. At Eden the Kiah River has…

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Heavy Rain Ends in Flooding

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 3

Goulburn and district; rivers and creeks broke their banks on Friday after more than three inches of rain had fallen in five days. On Friday night the Mulwaree…

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