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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

176 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 9

Jap textiles flood Far East

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: Japanese textiles in some eastern countries were being sold at below cost price because of the…

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Violent gale lashes N.Z. city

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 3

WELLINGTON (NZ), Thurs: A northerly gale which reached 87 mph lashed Wellington last night and early this morning,…

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Hume Highway Flooded

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 2

Police said yesterday that the Hume Highway was covered with water up to three feet deep at Tarcutta, where the Tarcutta…

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Former drowned when swept from hours in flood-swollen creek

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: In Kangaroo Valley, about 15 miles north-west of Nowra, a dairy farmer swept from his horse today by flood waters and drowned…

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Flooded creek holds up Riverina Express

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 1

The Riverina Express arrived in Albury at 9.45 o’clock last night—24 hours late Cause of the train’s late arrival…

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Flood collapses Hume Highway bridge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 11

SYDNEY, Wed.: Floodwaters today collapsed part of a concrete bridge on the Hume Highway near Marulan, and caused the biggest road transport hold-up for many years…

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Obituary Mr. Charles Gale

The Observer · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 3

The funeral of the late Mr. Charles Benjamin Gale, of Pleasant Hills, whose death occurred in the Henty Hospital…

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No Danger of Flooding

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee River had reached 24ft. at Wagga at 6 o’clock last evening. It is expected to touch 26ft. tonight and then begin…

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Severe storm sweeps over Albury and district

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 2

More than an inch of rain soaked Albury yesterday in the heaviest storm 30 far experienced this year…

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Man killed during storm in Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1951 · page 22

SYDNEY, Fri: A man was fatally injured in a road accident at height of a violent storm tonight, which caused thousands of…

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Some crops damaged by Thursday’s violent storm

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1951 · page 2

A violent electric storm which swept through border [?] late on Thursday afternoon caused damage to forward crops and disrupted telephonic communications and electricity supply to several towns, it was the most [?] storm experienced for years…

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Hailstone Damage During Storm

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 3

Although only 27 points were registered at Corowa Post Office from a storm which passed over the district on Thursday…

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Gales Fan Bushfires

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 October 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: Hundreds of bushfires, fanned by gale force winds, are sweeping many parts of the State…

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Snow, hail, rain, gale in N.S.W.

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1951 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wed.: Snow, rain, hail and gale, force winds swept the western and southern part of the State today…

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Trials in heavy rain

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 October 1951 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Heavy rain during working hours and holding tracks meant that times were slow on all courses today. The…

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Levees hold back Murray River flood

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 October 1951 · page 9

ADELAIDE, Thurs.: Floodwaters on a reclaimed swamp along the Murray River near Murray Bridge showed little…

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Bargain Seekers Storm Store

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 October 1951 · page 2

Hundreds of bargain-seeking women stormed Foy and Gibson’s drapery store yesterday to buy “below-cost” clothing which…

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Wage Increases May ‘Usher In Gale’ Warning by Judges of N.S.W. Industrial Commission

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 November 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri: Snowballing basic wage increases might- be “the breeze that ushers in an economic storm,” the Full Bench of the Industrial Commission warned today…

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20 Storm Deaths in U.s

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 November 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sun.: A freakish snow and rain storm shrieked across the north-east of the United States yesterday claiming at…

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Gales, heat, fires in South Australia

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 November 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Mon.: Houses were unroofed, market gardens damaged, communications disrupted, and several suburbs had power black-outs when a 73 m.p.h. gale lashed most parts of South Australia today at 11 a.m…

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