1000 Forbes Residents Driven From Homes by Flood
SYDNEY: At least 500 homes are flooded and more than 1000 people have been evacuated in Forbes, on the Lachlan River. Announcing these figures to…
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Floods & storms, 1950
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 50
More Heavy Rain Dashes Hopes For Relief Of Flood Victims
SYDNEY: Hopes of residents of floodbound Forbes and Warren were dashed today when heavy rain fell over the two towns. The Lachlan at Forbes and the Macquarie at Warren had…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Men, women and children of Warren to-day worked side by side using buckets, shovels and even their bare hands in an effort to strengthen levees to save their…
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Maitland residents thanked Hunter District Water Board employees for their services in the June floods, in a letter received by the board…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Towns such as Maitland, Kempsey and Forbes which were in danger of flooding should he moved as soon…
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SYDNEY: Three feet of water from the flooded Mandagery Creek is sweeping through shops in the main par t of Eugowra and the western section of the town today. It is the third time in seven…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The flood threat to Forbes (population 7000), Warren (2000), and Eugowra (850) eased late to-night. At Forbes the waters of the…
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SYDNEY: A plane left Forbes today to drop food at the floodbound township of Bedgerebon, 23 miles away. Flood danger has worsened at Bedgerebong and two army…
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Newcastle Aero Club will send two Auster aircraft to Carinda, about 100 miles south-west of Walgett, to-day for flood relief work. The club yesterday received a…
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SYDNEY: Families began returning to their homes in flood-stricken Forbes and Dubbo today and are faced with a week-end of mud-scraping and cleaning up. As the rivers recede they…
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Departmental officers estimated that a drain from Louth Park through Howe's Lagoon to Morpeth would cost a quarter of a million pounds, the Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. Cahill)…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Some families at Euabalong, who have not lived in their homes since the April floods, do not expect to move back…
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SYDNEY: Two towns 230 miles apart in western N.S.W., Euabalong on the Lachlan and Walgett (Barwon-Namoi) are in danger from floods. Euabalong, from which two dozen families have been evac-…
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Weather Bureau forecasts are—Hastings, Hunter and Manning: Continuing fine at first: moderate to fresh north-east winds and…
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Weather conditions today were warm and sultry, but Mr. R. W. Parker forecasts that thunderstorms will develop…
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Although the north-westerly was strong again today and the noon temperature in the city was 79 degrees, the storm last…
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Country Women's Association branches had donated more than £3000 to flood relief the State Treasurer (Mrs. Noel Thomson) said yesterday at the annual meeting of Newcastle branch…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Euabalong was saved from serious flooding because the Lachlan River made a detour around the town…
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Despite grants received from the Commonwealth Government, there was insufficient money for flood damage repair in the Maitland area,…
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NEW YORK, Oct. 31. A.A.P.—The floods which on Sunday drove over 2000 people from their homes in Southern Oregon and…
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