Widespread Damage As 65 M.P.H. Gales Hit North
Gales up to 65 miles an hour caused damage in the Newcastle area on Saturday night. Thirtythree people had their tents swept way at Milperra by the swollen George River…
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Floods & storms, 1952
437 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 22
Storm Still Lashes N.S.W.; Heavy Toll Of Damage Mounts
New South Wales continued to be Sashed by heavy rain and gale-force winds today. Widespread flooding, particularly on the South Coast, has driven many people from their homes and caused serious…
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SYDNEY: The Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said today that…
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THE cyclone causing the gales would soon move away to the south-east, Mr. Cyrll Griffiths…
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Dislocation of shipping schedules because of the coastal gales has caused a recurrence of coal-congestion problems in the Carrington railway yards…
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Launches were destroyed or sunk, a hall was unroofed, and foreshores were damaged by the gale which swept Lake…
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CANBERRA, Monday.— Floods to-day prevented the President (Mr. J. A. Ferguson) and two New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hundreds Homeless In Floods Entire Town May Be Evacuated
Hundreds of flood victims are already homeless in N.S.W. and townspeople in Forbes and Wagga are preparing today for the worst floods in their history…
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COWRA.—One man is missing and three others are being swept down the flooded Lachlan River, the police reported this afternoon. A plane…
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Two men are missing, believed drowned, in the flooded Lachlan River at Cowra. Three other men are stranded in floodbound trees in the area…
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AN R.A.A.F. helicopter was used yesterday to rescue a seriously ill woman who was…
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Only those who have known the damage and wretchedness of a I'ke disaster can fully understand the misery of the thousands of people homeless as a result of the floods…
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There is a sense of relief that the Hunter Valley missed the worst of the rain system that has brought…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Havoc at Forbes Growing 4000 Forced To Leave Homes
Flood havoc at Forbes increased yesterday as the Lachlan River reached the highest level ever known there. More than 4000 people in Forbes and Wagga have…
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The critical flood position at Wagga and Forbes had not materially changed this afternoon. Rain has stopped falling at Forbes and the sky has…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Floods surging down the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers are easing at Forbes and Wagga, but are now menacing towns farther downstream…
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WE'RE FORTUNATE THE FIRES LAST SUMMER SPARED THIS TREE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Search For 15 People Missing In Flood
Flying Doctor Geoffrey Young today left Forbes to search for 15 people who evacuated their homes at Bedgerebong at 2 a.m. today and…
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The low-lying sections of eight farms in the Louth Park area, near Maitland, were flooded yesterday by…
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Forty men worked desperately last night to finish a levee encircling Darlington Point. Murrumbidgee floodwater struck the town early to-day…
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