Flood-bound Town Appeals For Vegetables
BRISBANE, Monday.—The postmaster at the flood-bound settlement of Windorah, Mr. N. M. Easton, to-day made an appeal for…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Hunter Flood Mitigation Proposals "Sound"
Forestry, soil conservation and flood control reservoirs proposals of the Hunter River Flood Mitigation Committee were sound…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.— While public and private planes were being arranged in Brisbane to drop food supplies to isolated…
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NEW YORK, March 24. A.A.P. —The State police at Barton Rouge (Louisiana) report that a levee on the Mississippi river,…
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Wickham branch of the Labour Party decided to request Greater Newcastle Council and the Hunter District Water Board to investigate…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Thousands of people are isolated in record flood rains now sweeping south-western Queensland. Towns cut off include…
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BRISBANE: The whole of south-west Queensland is one big lake as the result of continuous torrential rain…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Northern Rivers towns in New South Wales face the threat of serious flooding within the next few days. Floods from Longreach…
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CASINO: The Richmond River rose three feet during the night and is still rising slowly, but local residents do not fear any immediate danger. Mrs. J. Clifton, wife of the…
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Hundreds of square miles of south-west Queensland, northern rivers of New South Wales and north-east South Australia are flooded…
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With its population of 2400, Cunnamulla (Queensland) is waiting for flood waters, surging into the Warrego River, to strike the township. Isolated by road and rail from the outside world,…
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Thunderstorms are expected towards evening followed by a cool change and south-west to south winds. The strong north-west breeze this morning caused the hu-…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Three men reached Thargomindah to-day after having waded 17 miles through floodwaters…
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WEST WYALONG, Wednesday. —The Catholic Coadjutor Bishop Young and four priests, clad in overalls, helped clear away debris…
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Weather conditions in Newcastle today and tomorrow arc expected to be mainly fine, but storms of a cyclonic nature may…
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LONDON, April 12. A.A.P.—Britain, in her hunt for dollars, will go all out to try to sell more goods to the United States and Canada. The British Government,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Trans-Australia Airlines aircraft will deliver mail to-morrow to people affected by floods in Western…
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LONDON, April 18. A.A.P.—At least thee people have lost their lives in floods which have swept through Morocco…
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The President (Mr. J. B. Duncan) told Wallsend sub-branch of the Returned Servicemen's League last night that an alderman had…
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LONDON, April 29. A.A.P.— Remarks by the President of the Royal Academy (Sir Alfred Munnings) last night have…
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