Floods Hamper Forbes Butter Production
Heavy floods In the Forbes district has meant that the local butter factory has been unable to collect milk or cream from either…
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Floods & storms, 1950
337 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 3 of 17
The Passing Show the Lost Flood
Most people, and especially the older hands, were Intrigued last week end when Forbes did not experience a flood on n substantial scale, after the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →CRICKET Cup Match Abandoned Owing to Flood
The cricket match between Vychan and Grawlin for the Ellis Cup, arranged for Sunday last, was abandoned owing to the floods. No further…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Closes School River in Flood
Owing to flooding of the Lachlan River, Payten's Bridge school was closed for a few days last week when the teacher in charge, Mr. R…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Four Men Drowned; Disastrous Floods in Central N.S.W. (By Wire) Sydney
Four men have been drowned in disastrous floods which swamped the central districts of New South Wales. More than a million pounds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quality of Blooms Was Outstanding At Presbyterian Flower Show Flood Waters Affect Competition
THE fact that many roads of access to Forbes were cut off by flood waters had an adverse effect on the competition and attendance at the annual flower show and exhibition of the Presbyterian Church, held in the Town Hall on Friday afternoon and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R.s.l. Aid in Floods
FLOOD Emergency. Committee is to be set up by the Forbes Branch of the R.S.L., and will be ready for any emergency due to floods, fire, etc. The matter was Brought up at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Emergency Housing For Flood Victims
FORBES Municipal Council have arrangements in hand for the housing and, feeding of persons displaced from their homes by the flood. A number of halls and public buildings in Forbes have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Lost Flood
A Correspondent, commenting on "Onlooker's remarks about the lost Forbes flood, sates that he knows where the water which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mandagery Flood Is Worst in History Water 5 feet Deep In Shops And Houses At Eugowra Rescue Party Spent Night On Roofs
WHEN the Mandagery Creek overflowed its banks at Eugowra at an early hour yesterday morning the water inundated premises that had never previously known a flood. The "Advocate" was informed that the level reached on this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →River in Flood From Gowra to Condoeolin Forbes Is Threatened with Big Inundation Accommodation Provision for Stranded Residents Railway, Mail and Telephone Services Attected
A flood in the Lachlan River at Forbes, well up to the level of the 1916 inundation, is the forecast of the "Advocate." Although at the week-end it was difficult to obtain reliable information as to the prospects of a big flood here, police and other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Sidelights Forbes Figures of Past Years
A DESPERATE battle against rising flood waters is being waged on the property of Mr. Jules Girot, whose entire orchard, one of the biggest in N.S.W., is seriously threatened by the waters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Grenfell Floods
Though no river winds its way through the Grenfell district, several last running creeks have carried huge volumes of water which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood at Koorawatha
Damage from the record flood of last week has not been as high as it was at first expected. A number of landholders adjacent to Back…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Drowned; Serious Aspects of Flood in Central West (By Wire) Sydney
A nine-years-old boy being taken home from school was drowned when he was swept off a truck which had stalled while attempting to cross the flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Residents' Experience In Flooded Areas
Mr. Fred Grellman and Mr. "Ted" Pearson had an experience worth recording, in the [?]ded areas between West…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Still Flood Dangers More Flood Waters Yet To Come
Although the Lachlan River at Condobolin was still at the 21 feet mark at 9 a.m. to-day (Thursday), the danger of increased flooding has not passed. The river at Forbes reached…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the North Hill Water Front Changed Course of the Flood
OUR Bedgerabong correspondent wisely remarked last week that no two floods are alike. That was certainly true on this occasion, more particularly in regard to that section of water in Lake Forbes which breaks away from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Escapades Ernie Jones' Close Call Two Men in Trees
A local man, Mr. Ernle Jones, with a horse and spring cart, did good business on Tuesday in carting people through the flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1950 Forbes Flood Was Equal of 1916 River at Same Height, Land Levels Varied 300 Families Evacuated From Their Homes Water Slowly Receding
THE flood which came with such startling suddenness upon Forbes at an early hour on Tuesday morning and is still with us reached the same river height as in 1916--34ft. 4ins. It spread over the town in a different manner on this ocasion…
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