Victoria Soaked By Heavy Rain
The tropical depression which caused widespread flooding in Central Australia and Queensland early yesterday brought torrential rain in…
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Floods & storms, 1950
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 50
Voyagers In Storm Eat With Impunity
LONDON, March 19. A.A.P.—Although the 83,000-ton liner Queen Elizabeth had one of the roughest Atlantic crossings ever,…
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Police yesterday rescued two floodbound families in Victoria. In western New South Wales a passenger bus was bogged for…
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Unsettled conditions with thunderstorms may develop this evening, according to the fore-fast by Mr. R. W. Parker…
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MELBOURNE: After dramatic rescues, families last night were still marooned in deep floodwaters…
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MELBOURNE: The forecast for further heavy rain for the flood areas in the Goulburn Valley may mean disaster for farmers who have already suffered severe stock and crop losses…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—More the 100 farmers and residents of the tiny, flood-isolated township of Wyuna have been given 24 hours' warning to evacuate the district. The swollen Goulburn River…
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CANBERRA.—The Commerce Minister Mr. McEwen is floodbound at his home at Stanhope in the Goulburn…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The small township of Wyuna is still threatened from the rapidly-rising Goulburn River. This is aggravated…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The body of a grazier who fell into a flooded creek near Dalgety yesterday was found to-day 15 miles downstream…
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MELBOURNE: The Victorian floods have now spread to East Gippsland, where rapidly rising waters in the Snowy River have already flooded low-lying areas and isolated the township of Mario, near Orbost…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Thunderstorms moving east from the Wimmera, where 2 inches of lain was recorded this morning,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police to-night declared a virtual state of emergency in Wagga as flood water swept down the Murrumbidgee River, which runs through the city. Every resident is standing by for to-morrow's deluge, when water…
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The Department of Public Works has offered Kearsley Shire Council an additional grant of 50 per cent. of the cost of repairing…
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NICOSIA, March 22. A.A.P.—Cyprus has suffered over £1,000,000 worth of damage by floods and heavy snow in its worst winter in…
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Advice from the N.S.W. Teachers' Federation that further representations to the Premier (Mr. McGirr). requesting flood…
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Sox thousand people were evacuated from North Wagga this morning as a huge flood moved down the Murrumbidgee River and threatened to submerge…
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Weather conditions today were warm and sultry with the humidity exceeding temperature readings…
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A conference of delegates from Maitland and Lower Hunter areas, at Maitland, unanimously decided yesterday to urge the immediate submission of the Hunter Valley Conservation Trust Bill for…
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Early to-day flood water on a two-mile front was bearing down on Wagga. Water is two feet deep in Fitzmaurice-street, the main…
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