Scouts Swim Flood-swollen River
SYDNEY, Tues.: Two Rover scouts who became separated from a party of 10 in the Kangaroo Valley, Bundanoon,…
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Flood Threat Grows; Sydney Deluged Pensioner Believed Drowned Sydney
For the second time within a week airmen from Richmond RAAF Station, near Sydney, ore standing by to more North Richmond residents. The Hawkesbury river at North Richmond tonight was rising at the rate of eight inches an hour. It has broken its banks in many places…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Gales and floods interrupted State-wide land, air and sea transport today…
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SYDNEY, Friday: With a total of 18.11 inches of rain up to 9 p.m. today, Sydney has been deluged with the greatest June…
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Unrelenting rain for the past seven days in N.S.W. central coastal and metropolitan areas has caused— A flood threat in the Hunter River valley…
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CADOMIN (Alberta), Friday: Five men are trapped in a coal mine here by floodwaters from the McLeod River. Thirty…
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SYDNEY, Fri: When the front rooms of their Castlecrag cottage, which had been weakened by days of heavy rain,…
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Tomorrow’s State elections will be short of at least 100,000 votes. Flood rains over the lost four days have mode it impossible for the big majority of the 100,000 people to reach designated polling booths. However, under the…
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CALCUTTA, Sun.: The deathroll in the cyclonic storm over West Bengal during the last few days rose to 89 yesterday, with…
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VANCOUVER, Sun.: Floods threatened dozens of British Columbia communities last night when rivers throughout the…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: A 10 months old baby boy was drowned in 20 inches cot floodwater at Duckenfield, near Morpeth, today…
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Storm damage caused by heavy rains and flooded streams will involve the Windouran Shire Council in an…
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CALCUTTA, Tues.: Storms and floods have killed at least 130 people and injured many more in two northern districts of West…
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CANBERRA, Tues.: The Minister for Customs (Senator O'Sullivan) announced today that licences would be issued freely on…
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VANCOUVER, Tuesday.: Floodwaters coursed through five British Columbia towns yesterday, forcing 2000 persons to flee as…
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Many of the 3000 flood refugees in the water-logged Hunter Valley are running short of food. Amphibious army ducks…
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For the third time within the past seven days, Maitland is facing a flood crisis even greater than the one before. Levees built along the banks of the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday : Floods and rain have seriously dislocated rail and road communications throughout the State…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: A freak cyclone, which blasted Murwillumbah today. Lifted a house from its…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Three points of rain in Sydney today to 8 p.m. brought the tally so far this month to 2304 points—the second…
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