"Flood" Damage In Hume St
Housing Commission homes in the Hume Street area were surrounded by two feet of water for over two hours after Tuesday's torrential storm. Hume Street residents said…
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Floods & storms, 1953
83 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 1 of 5
Flood of Entries for Big Week-end Shoot
Entries for the popular Southern District Rifle Clubs' Union Prize Meeting next week-end continue to arrive in such numbers that it now seems certain that the programmed prize money pay out of upwards of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Phone System To Provide Flood Warnings
The Menzies Government had approved the installation or radio telephone trunk lines between a number of places…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worst Storms in 1600 Yrs.: Hundreds Perish
LONDON, Monday: Europe's worst land and sea storms for 1600 years have brought the known deathroll over the week-end to nearly 400. Hundreds of others are feared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Death Toll in U.K. FLOODS Holland Suffers, Too
LONDON, Monday: The floods in England and Holland became even more critical last night. The death toll on the East Coast of England was reported at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Will Cut Britain's Food Supply For Years
LONDON, Tues.: Britain's worst flood disaster will adversely affect the nation's food supply for years to…
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An electric storm broke over Taralga during the early hours of yesterday afternoon and brought with it a degree of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods Subside But Death Toll Rises To 1300
LONDON, Wednesday: Apart from some area of Lincolnshire, floodwaters now are subsiding slowly in Britain, but the total of deaths caused by the North Sea's vast inroads in Britain, Holland and Belgium has…
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LONDON, Thursday: Fresh flooding in Belgium, the threatened collapse of Holland's remaining sea defences and a 60 m.p.h. gale along sections of the British coast last night posed a grim threat of new havoc in…
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LONDON, Friday: Even before the floods which have just ravaged Europe's low countries have completely subsided, snowstorms and blizzards are now sweeping across many parts of the Continent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Terror
LONDON, Friday: Ten shopkeepers in Ostend, Belgium, went mad and are in an asylum as a result of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Friday, 13Th Flood Danger Day in U.k
LONDON, Monday: Britain's 12,000 strong army of servicemen and civilians worked in Arctic conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Crisis Nearing England Prepares
LONDON, Wednesday: Gales, blizzards and torrential rain swept across Britain yesterday, while mountainous seas smashed abortively against the nation's hurriedly re-built flood defences—shattered by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Sandbag Airlift" to Aid Britain Flood Menace
LONDON, Friday: Eight European countries at dawn to-day began a huge "sandbag airlift" to Britain in answer to an urgent S.O.S. for 10 million bags to plug her east coast defences against giant spring tides…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Group Nine Will Be Flooded With Imported Players
The football area of Group Nine is being flooded, not with rain, hail or snow, but with imported players, and as day succeeds day, news is received…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Appeal
The Great Britain and Holland Flood Victims' Fund, which was launched by the Lord Mayor of Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Claim Another Victim
LONDON Wednesday: With the battle of the eastern sea walls virtually won, Britain's floods claimed another victim…
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Councillors readily agreed to a suggestion by the Shire President before the commencement of…
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In response to a telegram from the Lord Mayor of Sydney, the Mayor of Yass has opened an appeal for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →George Medal for U.k. Flood Hero
LONDON, Friday: Queen Elizabeth has awarded the George Medal to Reice Leming, 22-year-old American…
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