Fleeing From Flood
ROME: Workers fled for their lives as the mighty, rain swollen River Po smashed a half-mile gap…
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Floods & storms, 1951
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Some Flood Areas Miss Rate Rises Increases In Some Cases Up 300 Per Cent
Most properties affected by the floods at the past three years have been spared increased valuation, but the exemption does not apply to High-street business premises…
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Deaths from floods and storms in Italy this week now total 90. They include 33 drowned yesterday, when a truck carrying…
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PADUA (Italy) A sense of their establishment and despair hung over North Italy last night as refugees flied in…
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ROME: Boats and rafts yesterday carried more than 2000 people to safety from the North Italian town of…
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LONDON: Twelve hours of rain caused widespread flooding in Southern England. The Thames rose more than…
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ROME New heavy rains brought more floods and land[?]lleds to the upper P[?] Valley of Northern Italy yesterday…
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On Monday last a helicopter from the RAAF at Williamtown demonstrated how this machine could be used in flood rescue work…
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BUENOS AIRES: An express train, bound from Buenos Aires to Jujuy, In Western Argentins, was wrecked…
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SYDNEY: The Government had provided [?]4500 to establish flood warning radio stations in the Hunter Volley, the Minister for Conservation (Mr. Wair) announced yesterday…
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A high – powered radio flood-warning system would be erected in the Hunter Valley, the Minister for…
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ROME: The ten Jay "Battle of the Po” seemed to have passed its peak last-night as second spate of flood waters…
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The New South Walles Minister for Conservation, Mr. Geo. Weir, M.L.A., lhs announced that the State Government had provided…
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The NSW Minister for Conservation, Mr. Gco. Weir, MLA, announced recently that the State Government had provided £4,500 for the…
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BUENOS AIRES: More than 20 persons were drowned in the flood which engulfed Tandil, Argentine resort town, 150…
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Maitland City Council has appointed the Mayor Aid. Harvey), Deputy Mayor (Aid. Clyde). Aid. Fshey. and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Radio Network Speeds Flood Warning Committee Formed But Claim Made For Control by Police
A committee has been forced in Singleton to assist in the development of a flood warning scheme in the Hunter Valley. The committee consists of the Mayor, and his Deputy, the Town Clerk and his Deputy, the Shire Engineer and the Municipal…
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STOCKHOLM: Five people died and scores were injured in a gale which swept Sweden at the week-end, tearing down…
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CANBERRA: The Prime Minister, Mr. Mendes, has asked Australians to support the appeal of the Australian…
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LONDON: Houses and cotton mills and large areas of farmland were flooded when several Lancashire rivers…
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