Reject Apples Flood Sydney
SYDNEY. — Thousands of cases of Tasmanian apples, rejected for export, are flooding the city…
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Floods & storms, 1952
437 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 22
Freighter Lashed By Gales
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—After battling against fierce gales reaching 65 miles an hour, the small coastal…
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PARIS, Fri. (A.A.P.)—Australian youngsters Ken Rosewall and Lewis Hoad, both 17, yesterday stormed their way into the semifinals of the French doubles tennis…
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Three hundred Forbes residents threatened by floods left their homes yesterday. A 60-mile-an-hour gale last night blacked out the Riverina…
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A young woman was killed and four others injured last night when an amphibious "duck" overturned in floodwaters near Cowra…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The flood danger from the swollen Lachlan River at Forbes is still acute, but towns further upstream reported drops in the river level…
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FORBES.—With the raging Lachlan River still riding and light rain increasing the danger, hundreds more people are leaving their homes in Forbes today. The entire population of…
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The Minister for Public Works (Mr. Renshaw) says increased dredging in Newcastle Harbor over the past 12 months has cleared shipping channels of the accumulation of silt brought down by last year's floods…
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3. A.A.P.—Flood waters from the Tule and San Joaquin Rivers engulfed thousands of acres of…
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SYDNEY.—Two small aircraft today parach[?]ted food, mail and other provisions to many central western areas isolated by the swollen Lachlan River that has inundated…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Floodwaters from the Lachlan River at Forbes are dropping, and danger of further serious flooding has passed…
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With engines racing at full speed, the 3200 ton freighter James Cook, which came into Newcastle under tow at 8 o'clock this morning, battered its way into huge seas and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Most residents of Forbes who were forced by the flood to leave their homes returned to-day…
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SYDNEY.— Two Army ducks today left Forbes with provisions for isolated families at Jemalong, where 12ft-high levels collapsed before a huge volume of water last night…
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The flooded Tumut River last night poured through low-lying lying homes at Blowering (population 70) near Tumut…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Hundreds of acres of land were flooded when the Eildon Weir spilled over to-day,…
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SYDNEY: Five Chinese marooned by floodwaters at Narrandera refuse to be evacuated and police may have to use force to get them to safety. Constable B. C. Tierney…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Police will not fore[?]bly remove five Chinese families marooned by floods at Narrandera unless the Murrumbidgee River rises another foot…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police expect about 20 homes to be flooded when the peak of the swollen Murrumbidgee River…
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Further damage was caused in Newcastle this morning by a 50-mile-an-hour gale following in the wake of the fierce storm that swept Newcastle on Saturday night…
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