New Car Washed Away in Flood Waters
A brand new Pontiac car was washed away in Mitchell Creek on the Dubbo-Mudgee road yesterday…
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Floods & storms, 1950
581 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 16 of 30
Sharp Rise in River Brings New Threat of Flood at Dubbo Police Urge Shops To Lift Stocks
A rapid rise in the Macquarie River at Dubbo has brought the threat of another major flood within the next few days. Upstream the river is rising rapidly. In many places it is already higher than the April flood levels and is expected to exceed the record 1926 levels. Dubbo Police this morning advised traders on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Warning on Macquarie
FORECAST (Central Districts): Cloudy with rain or drizzle at times, chiefly on the highlands. Mainly fine in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Will Disrupt Plans to X-ray Country Residents
Floodwaters and impassable roads may prevent many country residents from attending: the special Anti-T.B. X-ray…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Repetition of Disastrous April Floods Vegetable Growers Face Loss of Onion and Patato Crops Huge Areas of Wellington Flats and Golf Course Again Inundated
FOLLOWING heavy rains on Tuesday and yesterday over the already waterlogged catchment areas of the Macquarie, Bell and Cudgegong Rivers, flooding of huge areas of river flats on a scale comparable to the disaster of last April has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Second Car In Ten Days Washed Off Flooded Crossing
A LATE model sedan car which had been washed off the flooded Mitchell's Creek Crossing on the Cobbora road yesterday morning was carried nearly three hundred yards downstream by a sudden, fast-flowing rise…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Damage Electricity Lines
The labour cost to restore electricity supply to Binnaway and Coonabarabran following the April floods was £309…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] People [?] for [?] Flood Water
[?] parts of the Trangie district still under [?] from the April [?] and further rises expected in the river, district residents have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Narromine Prepares for Record Flood Levee Bank Proposed to Save Town
With official flood warnings from police and the Weather Bureau residents along the river from Narromine west yesterday prepared for the worst. Official warnings said that floods might be expected to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Comparisons
A glance at the figures below giving the maximum heights of the various floods at Walgett (Barwon) and Bourke, are very interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Relief
The N.R.M.A. and N.R.M.A. Insurance Ltd. have donated 200 guineas to the Lord Mayor's fund for the relief of flood victims in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Tragedy of the Floods
I feel that it is a duty I owe to the people of this State to tell them just what action was taken by their Government in the past…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Say Peep at Floods Caused Accident
Both the driver of a car and the rider of a motorcycle which collided on March 31 in Macquarie Street South were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →'Plane Crew, Passengers Flood-bound
Passengers and crew of a Butler Airline 'plane which landed at Dubbo on Thursday night slept In the 'plane and waiting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bike Tips Over in Flood Water
A motor-cyclist, Donald Ham, of Brisbane Street, who attempted to traverse the flooded stretch of road in Macquarie…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scottish Ball a Gay Event Despite Floods
Although floodwaters covered many roads in the district and turned others into quagmires, a near capacity crowd attended last night's annual Dubbo Scottish Ball, held in the Royal Theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Novel Raft Plan to Rescue Flood-bound Stud Rams
Fifty valuable stud rams which arc stranded upstream at Haddon Rig Stud, Warren, may be floated to safety…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Victims Sleep on Soaked Ground
More than 30 men, women and children were last night huddled on rain-soaked ground at North Dubbo with only meagre canvas or iron coverings over their heads…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Threat Not As Great As in April 30 Dubbo Homes Evacuated
With flood waters receding around Dubbo the peak height has still to be reached in towns further West. Since the flood level was at least 18 inches…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Market Gardens Again Hit by Floods
Many Dubbo market gardeners, just recovering from the disastrous April flood were again hard hit when the river…
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