Township's Desperate Battle Floodwaters Lap Top Of Levees
SYDNEY: The township of Darlington point (population 300) is fighting desperately to keep the flooded Murrumbidgee River from…
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Floods & storms, 1952
437 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 22
Flood Of Ideas From Australian Inventors
CANBERRA: If necessity is the mother of invention she must, like many other mothers, often wonder before her child reaches maturity whether it is all worth while. Her child, as likely as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods, Gales, Bushfires Hit Country Town
SYDNEY: The swirling Lachlan River today swept into the ghost town of Euabalong and in the Blue Mountains is bushfire is racing out of control. Euabalong is preparing…
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Last week's bad weather gave Nesca field repair staffs more work than they could handle. The…
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NEW YORK, June 24. A.A.P.—Tornadoes and torrential rains have cut broad swathes of havoc across…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Wind up to 70 miles an hour lashed the Victorian coast to-day in the worst…
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LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.) Angry scenes occurred in the Commons yesterday when the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill) defended…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Town Near Deserted 18 Remain to Face Flood
Only 18 people remained in Euabalong last night as floodwater approached. The peak of the Lachlan River flood hit the town early to-day…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday—After a six-hour battle against a fierce storm which struck the ship off Wilson's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South West Floods Worked All Night On Banks
SYDNEY:—Men worked throughout last night to reinforce levee banks at…
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SYDNEY—Some greengrocers were using the floods in N.S W as an excuse to raise prices and…
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SYDNEY: An army of nearly 600 Hay residents today is working on a huge levee to save the town from the swirling Murrumbidgee River. In Places the levee…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Hay residents are patrolling and reinforcing a levee built to protect the town from floodwater…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police expect day, on the Murrum bidgee River, to be isolated when the peak of the flood…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Flood-hit Poll Close
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Latest figures from the interrupted poll in Gippsland for the Legislative Council…
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There's an exciting war on between Sydney and Newcastle, or at least between the Premier and the Minister…
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With a view to obtaining an early report on the proposed Howe's Lagoon canal, Maitland Council decided last night to seek a deputation to the Minister for Works and Local…
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SYDNEY — Deputy Taxation Commissioner Hughes expects the flood of taxation returns to start…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Advised Against Liquor Appearance New Storm on Evatt
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The New South Wales Minister for Housing (Mr. Evatt) acted against the advice of Cabinet colleagues in appearing at the Liquor Royal Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Price Cut Annoys Japan Storm On Butter From Australia
High quality Australian butter, selling in Japan more cheaply than the home product, has precipitated a minor crisis in the Japanese dairying industry…
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