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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

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Violent gales, heavy rain lash NSW coastal areas

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.: Gale force winds, accompanied by torrential rain, caused widespread havoc along the central and southern coast of New South Wales today. The winds, which at times reached a velocity of 55 m.p.h., whipped up mountainous seas, which pounded the coast…

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Denial of Tallangatta Floodings

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 2

A denial was made in Tallangatta last evening that approaches to the town had been flooded. It was stated that the river was still…

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Floods at Rochester

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Wed.: House-holders in Rochester rolled up their carpets and linos and stacked furniture on tables tonight…

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Hume Highway Flooded

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 14

Steady rain which commenced on Monday and continued to fall on Tuesday and yesterday morning, caused minor flooding on the…

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Allies storm through weakening Red resistance

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 June 1951 · page 3

TOKIO, Sun.: United Nations troops stormed through ebbing Communist resistance in a two-mile advance yesterday towards a new enemy build-up area at Kimsong. On the central Korean front the Allies struck from an area east…

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Flooding Danger Passes

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 June 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.: Danger of flooding in the coastal districts cased considerably today—only light scattered showers fell over…

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Lull Before Storm in Korea

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 June 1951 · page 7

TOKIO, Tues.: United Nations armies and Communist forces in Korea are measuring each other’s strength for expected new…

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Flood threatens N.S.W. towns

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: Floodwaters this afternoon isolated the Warragamba Dam township. Several areas in the Richmond and Windsor districts expect flooding early tomorrow…

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Floodwaters Burst Dam

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 July 1951 · page 4

AUCKLAND (N.Z.). Fri.: Floodwaters from the Waikato River have burst the upper coffer dam on the Maraetai hydro-electric…

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40 DlE in Floods in Japan

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 July 1951 · page 12

TOKIO, Thurs.: Officials in the Kyoto province in southern Japan today reported that floods had killed 40 people injured 55, while…

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Raging Oil Fires Add to U.s. Flood Terror

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sun: New devastation threatens the twin cities of Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, following the collapse of a dyke on the bank of the Missouri River. The collapse of the dyke released torrents of muddy water into the…

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Floods in N.E. Victoria and Southern Riverina

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 2

Parts of Albury district and North-Eastern Victoria were pounded by high winds on Saturday evening, which were accompanied by heavy showers. The break followed three of the coldest…

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Benalla Safe, But Floods Fan Out at Wangaratta

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 3

Although steady rain fell at Benalla yesterday, there is no immediate danger of big floods, not there any evacuating the town. Only minor flooding of low lying areas and back streets was reporter by police last night…

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Women threaten to storm gaol

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 6

SEROWE (Bechuanaland), Tues.: Several hundred angry women of the Bamangwa[?]e tribe threaten to storm the Serowe…

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Disastrous U.S. Flood Receding

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 18

KANSAS CITY (Missouri), Tues.: The worst, of the big flood has passed here; and in the twin Kansas City in Kansas…

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£11,000 flood damages claim

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tues.: The [?] in which [?]holdes in the [?] week [?] for [?] damage to…

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Noreuil Campers Are Flooded Out

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

Minor flooding of the Murray River tit the rear of Noreuil Pork on Tuesday forced compers to evacuate the camping area. The water rose suddenly and male residents at the…

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Kiewa River in Flood

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

Floodwaters from Kiewa River taken from the Wodonga-Bonegilla road, looking north…

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Women storm Commons

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Thurs.: Police last night slammed the heavy oak doors of the House of Commons in the faces of 500…

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Storm wrecks planes, clubhouse

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A freak windstorm devastated a club-house, hangar and two Tiger Moth aircraft at Orange tonight…

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