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Illawarra · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

247 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 13 of 13

New Flood Threats in West

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 November 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—A new flood threat faces towns on Barwon and Darling Rivers as Queensland floodwaters move south into New South Wales. The crisis has passed at…

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Grant For Foxground Flood Damage

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 30 November 1950 · page 16

The Minister for Public Works and Local Government (Mr. J. J. Cahill) has advised Mr. J. G. Beale, M.L.A…

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Flood Sweeps Walgett

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 December 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Floodwaters from the swollen Barwon and Namoi -Rivers are seeping into Walgett, in…

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Food by Plane for Flooded Town

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 December 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY Tuesday.—A plane will make two, trips from Walgett to Canada tomorrow to take urgently-needed food…

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Queensland Train Floodbound

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 8 December 1950 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Passengers camped in rail carriages of the southern mail train when flood waters submerged the…

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Attempts To Rescue Man From Flood-bound Utility Unsuccessful

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 December 1950 · page 2

A man had waded into the flooded Stanwell Creek at Stanwell Park on September 11 and thrown a rope to another man who was sitting on the top of his stalled utility…

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Stanwell Park inquest Flood Waters Washed Newsagent to Death

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 28 December 1950 · page 18

The story of a man being washed to his death by flood rains at Stanwell Park on Sept. 11 was told by witnesses at an inquest at Bulli last Friday. The man drowned was Henry…

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