More Rain in Flooded Areas: Lachlan Towns In Danger
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Continued general rain in the West and North-west was expected to increase the flood danger, the Weather Bureau said to-night…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Queensland Flood Hits Sawmills
Flood water of the Macintyre River at Goondiwindi, south-western Queensland, ours through the yards and works of…
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It will be six weeks to-day since many Maitland people vacated their homes. A number have not been able…
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The relief promised to Maitland by the re-opening of Wallis Creek floodgates is likely to be shortlived because of fairly general rain which fell over the Upper Hunter yesterday and last night…
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After being open for only 24 hours, Wallis Creek floodgates closed again early this morning, as the Hunter River began a steady rise. The river fell last night to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Storm Washes Out British Golf
LONDON, July 28. A.A.P.—A tremendous thunderstorm washed out the fifth round in the North British Harrogate 2000 Guineas…
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Reports from Queensland flood areas say a disaster has occurred in pastoral areas. An entire flock of 10,000 full-wool sheep in the New South…
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The proposed Minimbah-Awaba railway line would serve only Sydney and further retard Newcastle's progress, the President of…
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SYDNEY: Water from the rapidly-swelling Barwon and Namoi rivers is expected to swirl into…
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MOREE: Five light aircraft left Moree at dawn today to search for the East-West Airlines plane…
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GRAFTON.—Aif Bowling and his sorts. Ivan and Roy. have shot 99 snakes, swept into the Upper Coldstream…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—R.A.A.F. and Army men will combine in a food airlift to hundreds of stranded families in the flooded North-west of New South Wales…
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Despite expenditure of £110 on repairs after the 1949 flood, and the fact that the green and clubhouse were again covered by about…
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Although the Hunter River late last night was falling at about an inch an hour, water was still rising over sections of the South Maitland railway. The river, which reached a…
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Donations at the week-end, including one of £200 from employees of A. Goninan and Co. Pty. Ltd.,…
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SYDNEY: Several towns in the flooded northwest and along the Queensland border are gravely short of food and dozens of families, isolated for days, are in desperate plight…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—More than £30,000 to aid the rehabilitation of districts devastated by the floods Was granted to-day…
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Two Auster and a Dragon aircraft of Newcastle Aero Club are on flood relief work in the north. The Austers are surveying flood…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A Hunter Valley flood mitigation authority, to be known as the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust, will be set…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Floods in North-Western New South Wales show no signs of abating. Scores of marooned families…
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