Heavy Dust Storm
At about 6 o'clock on Sunday afternoon last Corowa was enveloped in a thick dust storm, which was followed by rain. The storm could be seen…
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494 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 25
Air-drop to Flooded Centres
BRISBANE, Wed.: A RAAR Lincoln bomber will leave Amberley tomorrow morning to drop 1500 lb of food to three flooded…
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BRISBANE. Thurs.: The small township of Urandangie, near the Northern Territory border, has been evacuated…
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BRISBANE, Fri.: Flood waters are receding in many areas of western Queensland, but some centres are still isolated…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: Flooding threatens country districts during the next 24 hours, following the heavy rain which…
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“The rain could not have come at a better time. Every drop has sunk in.” That is what the District Agronomist (Mr. G. C. Bartlett) had to say last night about the weekend rain, which was…
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Several northern towns are isolated by floods and many roads are impassable following torrential rain throughout the State. Thousands of pounds worth of damage has been caused to crops. While 50 m.p.h. gales swept across the State, coastal shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District Drenched, Swamped by Week-End Deluge River Rises Six Feet— Railway Line Scoured— Mail Services Disrupted
VAST sheets of water have formed in and around Deniliquin following a week-end deluge of 493 points. All mails—surface and- air—were disrupted; bridges [?]were swept away, and roads scoured by the rush of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Danger of serious flooding in and along the Murrumbidgee River is passing. The river at Wagga rose 10ft. 2ins. in the…
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In common with a good deal of N.S.W. and Victoria, the Hay District received a scattered fall of rain over the week-end…
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Following week-end rainfalls of over 3½ inches at Yarrawonga some streets were converted into minor rivers through which cars ploughed their way and children waded and sailed boats. Pictured at right are some…
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Over 100 district farmers and residents of the tiny flood-isolated township of Wyuna have been given 24 hours’ warning to leave before thousands of tons of water are unleashed on the area. Police are flashing radio messages to the town every hour over commercial radio…
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CANBERRA Mon.: Excavations for a new administrative block here have been flooded with 756,000 gallons of water by the…
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ADELAIDE, Tues.: Following rains totalling between nine and 15 inches, floods are threatening in the Diamantina River and…
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Reports from flooded areas in the Goulburn river area late tonight indicated that the acute flood danger had passed, except for the small township of Wyuna, where danger still threatens from the rapidly rising Goulburn River, aggravated by waters released…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: The body of a grazier, who fell into a flooded creek near Dalgety yesterday was found today, 15 miles…
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NEW YORK, Wed.: Storms with winds up to 65 miles an hour continued yesterday to pound North Atlantic shipping. Even…
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Mr Bert Seaton, of Albury, told the “Mail” by phone early this morning that flood waters in North Wagga were moving…
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MELBOURNE, Wed: Thunderstorms which are moving eastwards from the Wimmera, where two Inches Of rain were…
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A virtual state of emergency was declared by police at Wagga tonight, as floodwaters sweep down the Murrumbidgee River. Hundreds of families in North Wagga have been moved and housed…
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