U.S. Storms Cause Fifteen Deaths
NEW YORK, March 28. A.A.P.—Cyclonic spring storms which have raged throughout the United States since Sunday have caused…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Storm Over Barnett; Duke Leaves Meeting
LONDON, March 28. A.A.P.—The Duke of Norfolk, President of the Sussex County Cricket Club, walked out of the club's annual…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man was electrocuted in Wagga to-day while helping his mother to clear her home of flood debris. The man, Leslie Alfred Russell,…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.— An expert team of scientists and engineers to study flood control in danger areas was proposed in the…
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All women and children have been evacuated from danger areas in Darlington Point, the small Murrumbidgee town, which expects the full force of the flood late this afternoon…
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SYDNEY: An announcement by the Premier (Mr. McGirr) that the State Government will give £10,000 as…
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An opportunity had been lost to secure the opinion of "flood-wise" men, the President (Cr. T. McCarthy) told Lower Hunter Shire Council yesterday…
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Murrumbidgee River floodwaters last night completely isolated Darlington Point. The 300 residents fled from time to reach the ground floor of their homes as the river broke the hotel…
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Darlington Point, a small town on the Murrumbidgee River, is in danger of complete flooding today. Flood waters have already broken through the first levee banks and a second retaining wall is expected…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Sixty Darlington Point residents, sheltering in the shire hall from the flood, had to be moved to Griffith to-day when flood water undermined the levee…
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SYDNEY: Floodwaters in the township of Darlington Point reached their peak of 23ft. llin. at 3 a.m. today and have now begun to drop. Every street in the town has been under water since early…
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MELBOURNE: Further heavy rains in East Gippsland threatens Orbost and Marlo with…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Flood water late to-night was 50 feet from Dubbo's main street and hotel backyards were four feet under water. Police, using a rowing boat, to-night…
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Truck drivers at Orbost, East Gippsland, Victoria, towed and carried cars through flooded parts of the Prince's Highway during floods last week—at 15/ a time. The area is again threatened with heavy floods. These pictures were taken by Mr. J. Noon,…
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The flood menace at Dubbo worsened today and the main part of the town is almost isolated by road. Floodwaters have invaded low lying areas and several families in Dubbo's main…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Four men have been drowned in what may develop into the State's most disastrous floods. Residents in the western towns of Dubbo,…
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SYDNEY: A car driver desperately stripped off and swam in the nude from his partly submerged vehicle during a towing operation in the Windsor district today…
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SYDNEY: With floodwater from the swollen Macquarie River creeping up Macquarie-st.—the main shopping centre—Dubbo faces the most disastrous flood in its history…
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Flooded inland rivers in New South Wales are menacing dozens of towns and lapping at the door-steps of others. Dubbo police yesterday made mass rooftop rescues in boats…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—A highlight of the heavy rain was the loss for two days of two highly-prized…
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