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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

365 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 19

Wodonga flats will be flooded

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 3

Floodwaters will cover Wodonga Flats by next Thursday, a Hume Reservoir official said last night…

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Items of News Rutherglen Recovering From Storm Havoc

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 2

Rutherglen is recovering from the damage caused last Sunday when a cyclonic storm hit the township. Shire President (Cr…

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Floodwaters surge into homes at Tumut

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri.: Swollen by rain and snow falls in the aips, the surging Tumut River tonight carried away a bridge and…

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Border floods may equal 1946

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 18

Floods in the border districts on present indications will be as bad as in 1946. This was stated last night by the officer in charge of the…

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Street Flooded at Wangaratta

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 3

Wyllie street, Wangaratta, taken from the Hume Highway…

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Flooded Ovens Highway

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 3

As far as the eye can see, the Ovens Highway is under water…

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Border District Floods Expected to Reach Their Peak by To-morrow

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 1

Floods in the border district are expected to reach their peak either tomorrow or Wednesday. The water flowing over the spillway at…

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Floodwaters Pour Into Myrtleford Cafe in Banger

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 6

Top left, flood waters of the Myrtle Creek lapping the rear of J. Tsitimbinis’ cafe, Myrtle st., Myrtheford,…

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Summer storms cause six deaths

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Mon.: Violent summer storms struck in the Middle West and East on Sunday, killing at , least four…

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Floods Now Receding

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 1

Swirling floodwaters dropped yesterday as brilliant sunshine bathed the border district. Homes are now out of danger in three towns and waters are steadily fading…

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Murray Flood to Reach Peak at Albury This Morning

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 June 1952 · page 3

The swollen Murray River is expected to reach its peak at Albury early this morning, and is likely to maintain flood height until the week-end…

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20 homes will be flooded

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 June 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.: Police expect about 20 homes to be flooded when the peak of the swollen Murrumbidgee River…

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Towong council told of flood damage in the shire Engineer tells of serious and landslides and washaways

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 June 1952 · page 12

Floods have damaged many shire roads, and resulted in serious landslides and washaways, Towong Shire Council was fold yesterday. Engineer (Mr H. R. Craig) said a request to the…

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Factory flooded

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 12 June 1952 · page 3

Floodwaters lapping the front entrance to the Adelyn Clothing Factory in Wodonga Place…

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Flooded Wodonga flats has its ‘stay puts’

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 12 June 1952 · page 1

Eleven families in the flood-bound Wodonga Flats sat huddled in their shanties last night as water lapped around them. Police have ordered them to quit their small…

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These pictures show plight of floodbound families on Wodonga Flats

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 12 June 1952 · page 6

LEFT : Occupied by Mr. and Mrs. P. Grentell, their five children, the Grentells’ son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips and two children, this home on the Wodonga Flats is isolated by floodwater from the Murray River…

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High River Cm Be Expected No Danger of Flood

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 June 1952 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee at Hay reached 20ft. 4ins. this morning and appears to be still rising. Over the past, few days it has risen an…

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“Flood” of horses for Caulfield

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 June 1952 · page 20

In the biggest post-war acceptance, 189 horses remained in the six races at 1 p.m. yesterday when the Melbourne Racing Club took acceptances for their meeting at Caulfield on…

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Flood surrounds councillor’s home

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 June 1952 · page 1

The home of Cr. Lowe, opposite the camping reserve, Wangaratta, surrounded by the overflow from the Ovens River…

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River Will Rise But No Flood Danger

The Pastoral Times · Friday 13 June 1952 · page 1

Water Commission officials at Deniliquin consider the Edward River will continue to rise here for about a week and…

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