Floods No Bar to Golfers Good Roll-Up At Weekend
Flood conditions at the weekend did not prevent a number of golf enthusiasts getting to the Dubbo course. The scheduled competitions worts postponed…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Nyngan Town Clerk Was Floodbound
The Nyngan Town Clerk (Mr. G. A. Priest) was stranded in Dubbo on his way back from the Local Government Conference…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bogan Election Postponed Voters Isolated By Floods
The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Cahill) has authorised the postponement of the Bogan Shire elections until…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Street by Street Fight Against Water at Nyngan 200 Homes Inundated And Flood Now" Out Of Control" NYNGAN
Street by street and house by house, all available Nyngan men, women and children labored feverishly under a blazing sun this morning to keep back flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Men Take Refuge in Trees, Mounds Brisbane
Nine men who were forced to seek refuge in trees and earth-mounds by floods in Emerald, Central Queensland, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.M. Floodbound at Coonamble "Escape Route" To Dubbo
Mr. R. Palmer. Stipendary Magistrate returned to Dubbo last night with a Dubbo taxi driver, Mr. M. Robinson, after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Gilgandra Could Be Avoided
For the second time in a few months, many Gilgandra residents are heav' losers through the disasterous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Why Turkey Hollow Floods
Most Gilgandra people are aware of existence of a part of the bown known as "Turkey Hollow," but very…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Causes Fire
When the flood waters threatened Mr J. Morris' house in Miller Street, the family assisted in placing as many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collies Most Disasterous Flood
As a result of the phenomenal rainfall of last week, the highest flood of all time came through Collie in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Flood
The residents of Mendooran spent an anxious time on Tues day night of last week when it was feared that the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farmers Flew Over Floods Costly Trip For Dubbo Men
A group of Dubbo farmers flew in a Douglas air-liner on a sight-seeing tour over flooded western areas yesterday—at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Levees Sabotaged at Three Towns in West Life In Nyngan Is Now Virtually "At A Standstill"
Attempts to sabotage flood levees have been reported from three central western towns : NARROMINE: Two attempts were made to cut the levee at the peak of the flood on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Damage to Roads Drains in Municipality
It would cost some thousands of pounds to repair, the damage indicted on roads, footpaths and drains by the recent floods, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FlOODS Benefit Grazing Land Dubbo Gardeners Hardest Hit
Some flooded grazing areas in the far west of the State had benefited by the floods, because the waters had deposited a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Last Meeting of Provisional Council. Shire President Reviews Year of Floods and Thwarted Plans
SPEAKING at the final meeting of the Provisional Council of the Wellington Shire on Monday last, the President, Cr. W. L. Johanson, said that it was most unfortunate that a newly-constituted body of the size of Wellington Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gwabegar’s Third Flood Water Flows Through Homes
For the third time this year Gwabegar was flooded last week when the waters of Wangan Creek entered the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A New Site for Floodbound Farmer's Home
The children of a farmer on the Talbragar River will no longer have to go hungry or stay away from school in floodtime—their home is to be moved to high ground…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Destroy Rabbits in Great Numbers
Rabbits had been destroyed in greater numbers in the last flood than in any previous flood this year, the Rabbit Inspector (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →November Floods Brought Tragic Losses To District Primary Producers
AFTER a record fall of 9 inches in October, another 6 inches in November caused tragic losses to primary producers throughout the district. Temperatures this month have been moderate, except for the last few days but, some squally winds which accompanied the rain at times, caused a good deal of additional lodging in wheat…
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