Nine Marooned By Flood Took To Trees
BRISBANE: Nine men, forced to seek refuge in trees and earth mounds by floods in Emerald (Central Queensland) were rescued today. A train from Rockhampton…
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Floods & storms, 1950
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 49 of 50
Dutch Lecture On Flood Mitigation
The Press Attache to the Netherlands Legation (Mr. J. J. Van der Laan) will give an Illustrated lecture in Maitland…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Flood water to-night raced through a 200-yard breach in the levee around Nyngan and swamped practically every building…
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SYDNEY: Floodwaters are still pouring into the western town of Nyngan from the Bogan River. More than 400 homes have up to five feet of water in them. Residents worked all night…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Nov. 30. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A storm developed at the Commonwealth Parliamentary conference to-day when the subject of migration was debated…
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Holland had plenty of men and equipment to help a country like Australia in flood control, the Press Attache to the Dutch Legation (Mr. J. J. Vander Lann) said at Maitland last night…
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Levees keeping floodwaters out of the last dry square mile of Nyngan were still holding this morning despite threats that some residents would try to smash them. The levee is protecting about…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).—Floods were reported from many parts of Britain last night…
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SYDNEY: Residents of floodbound Carinda, between Coonamble and Walgett, have been without butter or meat for nearly a week and flour stocks will be exhausted today. Army ducks which left…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Snow, Gales in Europe
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Most of Europe reported heavy snow and falling temperatures yesterday and more snow frost…
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A slight change towards evening with the like-lihood of isolated thunderstorms is forecast by Mr. R. W. Parker. Tomorrow should be warm…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Flood-water from the Barwon ad Namoi Rivers is flowing into Walgett, in north-western New South Wales…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A plane will make two trips from Walgett to Carinda tomorrow, to take urgently-needed food supplies to…
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SYDNEY: Floodwaters are creeping through the business section of Walgett as the Barwon and…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—About 110 people camped to-night in carriages of the southern mail train when flood waters submerged the…
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SYDNEY. — Three overseas airliners from Sydney—a Constellation for London and two Skymasters for Japan—were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tide Floods Farm Land
About 600 acres on several farms in the Bob's Farm area were flooded with salt water when a near-record high tide overflowed Tilligerry Creek yesterday morning…
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Another near-record high tide of seven feet this morning flooded roads and backyards in Wickham and Maryville but failed to breach the bank at Tilligerry Creek (Bob's Farm), where many acres…
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SYDNEY: Fires, floods and flies are menacing pastures, property and stock in various parts of New South Wales and causing a serious setback to production…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Federal Government had agreed to a request by the New South Wales Premier (Mr. McGirr) that…
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