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

Floods & storms, 1953

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Sydney's Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 3

Lightning struck several buildings during a series of fierce electrical storms in the city and suburbs between 3 p.m. and 7…

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£76 in Flood Appeal

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 2

Donations to the Great Britain and Holland Flood Victims Appeal, launched by the Mayor, Aid. G. E. Gerathy, have reached…

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Heavy Sydney Rain Stops Fast Trials

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Heavy overnight rain prevented fast gallops on the various tracks in Sydney this morning. The going was so heavy at Randwick that trainers could use only the back portion of the small steeplechase grass…

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Danger of Floods on N. Coast

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Heavy overnight rain has caused many North Coast rivers to swell alarmingly, and serious flooding in several towns is expected. Weather Bureau officials said…

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Braidwood Red Cross Aid for Flood Victims

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 1

A cheque for £32 has been forwarded by Braidwood branch of the Red Cross Society to Sydney headquarters to aid flood relief funds. This was revealed at a…

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Heavy Rain In City: 80 Points

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 1

Many homes and business premises suffered damage early yesterday afternoon when a torrential rainstorm…

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Storms Bring Welcome Rain to District

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 2

Storms which broke over the district on Monday and Monday night brought very welcome rain to many parts of the…

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Council Party Views Flood Damage

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 1

"Mr. Gallop, of the Housing Commission was here in February and he promised to have something tangible done to prevent the flooding of these places," the Mayor of Goulburn, Ald. Gerathy, said yesterday…

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Storms Batter Coast: Flooding

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Fierce storms are battering the coast of N.S.W., causing a severe flood threat on parts of the South Coast. The area most affected stretches from…

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New Bridge Wanted at Darby's Falls "Cannot Stand Further Floodings." Says Cr. Forster

Boorowa News · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 4

The Stale Minister for Transport, Mr. C. Martin, is to be asked to make the inspection of the bridge over…

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Four Die In Storm

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 19 May 1953 · page 3

NEW ORLEANS, Monday: A storm, moving along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, to-day killed at least four people, hit…

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How to Make Money? Blitz Buggy And Heavy Rain

Boorowa News · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 4

Mr. Bill Brouwer, Goulburn builder, who returned from northern N.S.W., claims that a blitz waggon in a flooded…

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Vandals Run Beserk at Cootamundra Hotel Cellar Flooded

Boorowa News · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 2

Vandals with a very warped sense of humour caused heavy damage last week when they went mad at Cootamundra…

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Bega Valley Flooded with Electric Power

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 5

A recent issue of the Bega News tells the story of the human spirit that lay behind the birth of an idea that started…

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Floodlighting Belmore Park

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 June 1953 · page 1

Goulburn citizens will be able to enjoy the beauties of Belmore Park by night as well as by day when the plans proposed by Mr. J. A. Rutter are put into effect…

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Floodlighting the Tucker Box

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 1

GUNDAGAI: Cr. F. McHugh at this week's Council meeting said that the Shire should consider a proposal to flood light…

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Mulloy storms

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 June 1953 · page 3

Temperamental Gar Mulloy, America's top-ranking amateur tennis player, stormed about the…

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More Than 700,000 HOMELESS Japanese Floods

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 1

TOKYO, Monday: Floodwaters, fed by six days of torrential rains, raged even higher to-day on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, where at least 2000…

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Many Missing In Floods

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 3

TOKYO, Tuesday: Hundreds of American soldiers yesterday laboured to evacuate Japanese farmers to safety after the week-end floods, which killed more than 400 people…

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100 M.p.h. Gale

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 3

MOREHEAD CITY (NORTH CAROLINA) Thursday. High winds and raging seas lashed Morehead City to-night as a 100…

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