Widespread Floods Cause Heavy Damage SYDNEY
Widespread Hoods are leacing a Widespread foods are leaving a NSW. More than £15,000 damage was…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Another Flood Ravensworth Writer Rejects The Huddleston Scheme
The conference of the Lower Hunter local governing and other public bodies, held at Maitland on Thursday, March 23, decided to ask the Premier to proceed with the draft bill for the setting up of the Hunter Valley Trust so…
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Striking picture of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, lit by special floodlights…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Riverina Farmers Fear Big Floods Rich Pastures May Be Swamped
Some of the richest pastoral properties in the southern Riverina are likely to be swamped by flood waters…
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SYDNEY, Sat—Charles Graham, owner of a kiosk at Nepean Penrith, has been flooded out of his house nine times in the…
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SYDNEY, April 1.—Floodwater from the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers has destroyed thousands of acres of crops, pastures and…
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Heavy rain has been experienced on the Hunter watershed in the past 24 hours and reports from centres north Indicate that…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Weather Bureau this afternoon issued fresh flood warnings for the Lachlan, Macquarie and Murrumbidgee Rivers. The warning said that further serious flooding is…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. — The Melbourne Weather Bureau warned that all rivers in Victoria east of the Campaspe…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Central West is experiencing some of the worst floods is history, Dubbo, Wellington, Forbes, Parkes, Jerilderie, Hoy, Molong and Canowindra report that all low-lying areas are covered, and Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Further Serious Floods Expected Eastern Half of State Likely to Suffer Further Warnings in South
Almost the entire eastern half of the country is in the grip of floods. Apart from the serious floods in N.S.W. flood warnings were also issued to-day in Queensland and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sourthern Districts Face Record Floods Enormous Damage to Property and Crops
What are believed to be the most widespread floodings known in this State have caused more than £1,500,000 worth of damage and claimed four lives over the week-end…
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Rain has fallen throughout the district since early on Sunday evening. Heavy falls in the Upper Hunter have caused a sharp rise…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Critical Flood Position. River Mile Wide at Dubbo. Wagga, Hay, Gundagai Again Threatened. Sydney
Still rising an inch an hour, the Maequarie River is 25 feet above normal at Dubho and has flooded most of the town to a depth of two or three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floodings Persist Thousands Prepare to Evacuate Homes SYDNEY
Thousands of residents of inland towns tonight are standing by to evacuate their homes as floodwaters pour into more than six main…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Torrential Rains in Upper Hunter Streams at Flood Level
The rain which set in at the week-end, and in the wake of the disastrous visitations in many parts of the State, caused sharp rises, even floodings, in district streams, did considerable damage to roads, and in instances…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Floods threaten five areas of South Wales this morning. They are: Along the Macquarie, the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee, in the Hawkesbury area and at Milton, on the South Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter and Goulburn Rivers Rising Threat of Flooding at East Maitland
Reports of rain up to eight inches in the Hunter Valley, and rises in the Goulburn River end Hunter, as well as freshes in all contributing streams point to another serious and substantial rise in the Hunter River at Maitland in three…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deputation on Flood Mitigation
The Mayor, Ald. A. S. McDonald. submitted to the city council last night a minute detailing the motions carried at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Danger in West Passing
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Although the flood damage in many parte of the state is decreasing hourly. Warren and Ravenwood…
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