Floods Halve Sydney Market Supplies
SYDNEY, Monday.—Scanty supplies of fruit and vegetables brought near record prices under strong competition at Sydney…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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£40,000 Flood Relief Grant Recommended
SYDNEY, Monday.—A grant of £40,000 to be borne equally by the Commonwealth and State Governments, was recommended by the…
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WOLLONGONG: Homes and roads in three areas on the South Coast are collapsing, cracking and sinking into the ground which heavy rain has turned into a bog…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The worst floods in 16 years have struck Sale district. Thousands of tons of water boiled…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Floods in western and central New South Wales to-day drove hundreds more families from their homes. New centres have been enveloped by the swirling mass of…
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THE TWO amphibious ducks from Newcastle C.M.F. units which helped in flood rescue work at Maitland and…
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Because the creek crossing is impassable, the township of Bunnan, in the Upper Hunter Valley, has been isolated by road for three days. Newcastle police were advised…
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Floodwaters from the Hunter River covered surrounding farmlands after breaking the banks near Pitnacree Bridge at East Maitland early this morning…
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SYDNEY: Men and women are joined an a desperate fight today to hold back the Macquarie River flood which threatens to engulf Warren and Ravenwood. Little hope is held that the hastily-built levees on which they are working…
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The Railway Department informed the Maitland Council last night it was not prepared to contribute to the cost of…
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HONGKONG, April 5. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Floods caused by a spring thaw are bringing new disasters to famine-stricken Central China, according to reports reaching Hongkong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.s.w.: a boy was drowned near Dunedoo yesterday. Floods threaten Wagga again.—Cols. 2, 3, 4. Victoria: a woman was drowned at Stratford when a bridge collapsed. Many families have moved.—Col. 1. HUNTER: East Maitland residents this morning watched rising flood water from the Hunter.—Cols. 8, 9. Boy Drowned in Flood Rising River Again Threatens Wagga
SYDNEY, Wed.—The disastrous and widespread floods in New South Wales are easing in most central towns, but— A nine-year-old boy was drowned in the Talbragar River,…
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MELBOURNE.—Floodwaters in East Gippsland, which have already swept away two bridges, caused many washaways and…
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SYDNEY: Exhausted after a nonstop 60-hour battle, the men and women off Warren hope to hold back the Macquarie River flood which threatens to…
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FIRST PICTURES from Forbes give some idea of the extent of the flood and how the people are facing up to it. The swollen Lachlan is swirling through the main street, and 2000 people are homeless. Left: Bare-legged crowds take shelter…
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A WOMAN in a flood-bound home 15 miles from Forbes gave bird to a baby on Wednesday without…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police to-night warned 4000 residents of the Camden district, near Sydney, to be ready to leave their homes. More than six inches of rain has fallen in the Robertson…
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QUITO (Ecuador), April 6. A.A.P.—Floodwaters from the Tomebamba River surged through Cuenca yesterday, says Reuters…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The flood position in Wagga was "pretty alarming," the Secretary of the Murrumbidgee Flood Warning Committee (Mr. J. W. Wilks) said…
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