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Floods & storms, 1949

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300 Isolated by Burragorang Valley Floods

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: More than 300 people living in farms and guest houses in the Burragorang Valley (southwest of Sydney) are isolated by floodwaters caused by heavy rains over the weekend…

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Floods Leave Many Stranded in Valley Holiday Makers Taken by Horseback to Safety

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Many of the 200 holiday-makers stranded at Burragorang Valley at the weekend managed to get safely away…

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Shooting Shatters Short "Peace" In Berlin Communists Storm Station, Drive Out Strikers

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 1

BERLIN, Monday (A.A.P.): The calm that police last night had restored to Berlin was shattered this morning when shooting broke out in the railway yards west of Charlottenburg station…

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Floodwaters in Burragorang Valley Falling

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Floodwaters in the Burragorang Valley are subsiding, and only a few places are still isolated, police…

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Bill on Secret Ballots Shelved Govt. Move Rouses Opposition Storm

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday: By 32 votes to 26, the Government in the House of Representatives today prevented an opposition Bill for the…

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Heavy Damage When Gale Strikes N.S.W.

Daily Advertiser · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Leaving behind it a trail of damage estimated at thousands of pounds, a gale which swept the eastern part of the State eased late today. Winds which yesterday reached a velocity of over 70…

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Coastal Steamer Overdue Cyclone Has Moved Out to Sea

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday—The small coastal steamer Ulmarra is now many hours overdue on a voyage from the clarence River…

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Coastal Streamer Missing in Gale Overdue May be "Riding Out" Away From Shore

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 6 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: The small coastal steamer "Ulmarra" is now many hours overdue on a voyage from the Clarence River…

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Deluge in U.s.a. 12 Inches in One Night

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday — At least 11 lives have been lost and damage estimated in millions of dollars caused by floods in…

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11 Lives Lost in American Floods 21 Cars Wrecked In a Train Derailment

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 1

(A.A.P.) NEW YORK: At least 11 lives have been lost, and damage estimated at a million dollars caused by floods in the…

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Chaos Follows Sydney Deluge Homes Flooded; Traffic Tie-up

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The heaviest fall of rain in June for 53 years deluged the" city and suburbs this morning, and caused the most chaotic transport tie-up in Sydney's history…

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11 Lives Lost as Rain Floods Texas

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 5

NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.): At least 11 lives have been lost and damage estimated is millions of dollars has been caused…

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Violent Storms Over Parts of State

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday—Winds of gale force lashed the central coast today, disrupting snipping, and causing damage to property…

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Townships Cut off in Big Floods 80 M.P.H. Gale Hits Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Further flood warnings were issued by the Weather Bureau late tonight for the coast of New South Wales from Port Macquarie to Jervis Bay…

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Danger of Further Floods Has Passed Many Homeless and Short of Food

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday — The danger of further serious flooding has now passed, but thousands persons in Camden and the northern areas are homeless and desperately short of food…

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Death. Destruction in State's Worst Floods Seven People Drowned; Evacuees Housed in Halls

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Although floodwaters are receding in many areas of the New South Wales coast, leaving a trail of drownings and destruction, the position in the Lower Hunter River Valley has become critical…

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No More Serious Floods Expected Danger Passes; Thousands Homeless, Short of Food

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY. The danger of further serious flooding has now passed but thousands of persons is Camden and northern areas are…

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Forty Lives Lost When Town Flooded

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 1

ANKARA, Tuesday — Forty lives are reported to have been lost in the flooding of the North Anatolia town of Tokat…

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Food for Flood Areas

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Food will be rushed from Newcastle to Maitland tomorrow to relieve the food shortage in the flooded city…

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£10 Million Flood Control Programme

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A flood mitigation programme for the Hunter Valley to cost over £10,000,000 has been approved…

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