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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Floods & storms
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Near panic gripped Wagga tonight as racing floodwaters swept through the city rising higher and higher in houses, shops and factories. The entire population of North Wagga has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rain fell here throughout Saturday, 18th, and although it looked very like a storm, on Tuesday, no rain fell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coonabarabran received about six inches of rain with a severe electrical storm last night Lightning put the town's electricity…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two small brothers were killed instantly and four other children in another family were orphaned when their parents…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →City health authorities are washing down Wagga streets to prevent disease following in theh wake of the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FOLLOWING a deluge of from two to four inches of rain which fell over the Wellington district within a few hours last night, the Bell River rose over its banks with startling suddenness and created a mile-wide flood across the Wellington flats during the early hours of this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More than 100 people living in low lying areas around Wellington were hurriedly evacuated by police in the early hours of this morning when the Bell River broke its banks. Great vegetable growing flats around Wellington were inundated,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floodwaters have broken through the first levee banks at Darlington Point, a small Murrumbidgee River town, which is in danger of complete flooding today. A second hastily-built retaining wall is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For the second time in a few weeks, the Macquarie River yesterday was a torrent of flood water carrying great masses of debris midstream and spreading out over the banks on the town side until it had reached a higher point than in February…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Small pieces of gold were uncovered by floodwaters at Sofala, about 30 miles from Bathurst, and It is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE worst floods in history are threatened along the Macquarie and Lachlan Rivers as the deluge of rain, which commenced last Wednesday, continues to fall over the central areas of the State. At Wellington, where last Thursday's floodwaters had receded considerably by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S. JOHN'S Church of England Parish Hall was the scene yesterday of a hurst of spontaneous giving, which was remarkable even in a district renowned for its generosity. The occasion was the annual Palm Sunday luncheon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A MAN was drowned and another man is believed to have been drowned whilst attempting to cross the flooded section of the Showground road at Wellington on Saturday night last. Police and civilians on Sunday afternoon recovered the body of John Spence (45), invalid pensioner, married, with a family, of Curra Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A special meeting of Wellington district vegetable growers is being held this afternoon to review flood losses o fencing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WEATHER conditions during March were mild to warm and humid. Except for the torrential rain which fell over a wide area of the Central West on Wednesday night last, March 29, the rainfall was comparatively light,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE 1950 Wellington Show is now only three weeks away and the number of entries received so far has been most satisfactory. However, serious flooding of the Bell River flats will seriously affect the vegetable exhibits…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The first recorded, case of flooding of the Macquarie River at Dubbo shows that the waters rose to a height of 46 feet in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A man who has been fighting floods man and boy for 40 years thinks that they aren't quite what they used to be in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After a night of anxiety, businessmen and residents in low-lying residential areas of Dubbo awoke this morning to find the flooded Macquarie River still rising—but only slowly—and that the danger had not materially increased overnight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Sydney Weather Bureau forecast for the Central Districts issued at noon for the 24 hours from 3 p.m. was…
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