Big Grant to Shire for Flood Damage Works Dept. Helps on a 5050 Subsidy Basis
The local Member (Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) advises that the Illabo Shire Council has accepted an offer by the Minister…
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Man Believed Drowned in Narrabri Flood
SYDNEY, Friday: An elderly farmer is believed drowned and thousands of acres of wheat destroyed, following widespread…
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NEW YORK, Monday.—Fresh snow fell on hard-hit cities in the North-eastern United States as the death-roll in one of the…
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(A.A.P.) NEW YORK: Fresh snow has fallen on the hard-hit cities of the North-Eastern United states as deaths in one of…
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SYDNEY, Monday — A sharp drop in the river level during the night saved Warren from a serious flooding. After a week of tension, during which the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Towns Isolated in Floods; Dromes Closed Levees at Warren Now Crumbling
SYDNEY, Sunday: Record bushfires are sweeping Tasmania; history-making floods are swamping Queensland, and in flood-battered New South…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A sharp drop in the river level during the night saved Warren from serious flooding…
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NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.): Weather officials reported last night that the fury of the tragic storm was dying, but warnings were given of possible further heavy falls of snow. The deathroll has now passed 100 in one of the worst storms in the nation's…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A new flood threat faces towns on the Barwon and Darling Rivers as Queensland floodwaters move…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Murrumbidgee Flood’s Aftermath Wild Fowl Plentiful Sudden Alarm (From Our Ganmain Correspondent.)
Most local resident are back in their homes again after the second flood of 1950. The last flood was more disastrous than the first…
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Cr. R. H. Freer and his daughter Miss Elvie Freer, of Rannock, returned home at 1 a.m. on Saturday last, having taken six days…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Science Comes to Hospital Aid. Communication Maintaned During Cyclone
During the cyclonic storm which struck the Newcastle district recently, the telephone system of the Waratah Mayfield district was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Floodwaters are creeping through the main business section of Walgett as the Namoi and Barwon…
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Assistance to primary producers in western districts who had suffered repeatedly from flood damage, was urged in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Udders Under Flood Waters But Nyngan Farmer Milked Cows
A Nyngan dairyman, Mr Gilbert Sleeman milked a therd of cows whose udders were under water…
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(A.A.P.) LONDON: At least [?] seamen are believed to have [?] drowned in a violent gale in [?] Bay of Biscay during the pa[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Angling—plenty of Fish in River Since Flooding
The recent floods that have swept the Murrumbidgee have caused the fish to bite readily, Gundagai anglers…
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The recent floods that have swept the Murrumbidgee have caused the fish to bite readily, Gundagai anglers report…
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