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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

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1950 --- Gundagai’s Record Rainfall Year Three Floods----Rain Fell Every Third Day

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 8

All rainfall records were smashed during the twelve months just concluded, and with 4548 points to its credit the year 1950 will always he remembered as the wettest year in Gundagai’s history., Three floods occurred…

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Moroccan Floods

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 3

RABAT (MOROCCO) Thurs.: At least 71 persons have been drowned and 60 others are missing in rain-swollen…

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Floods, Squalls Expected in Queensland

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday: North' Queensland towns are threatened with torrential rain and strong wind squalls…

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Test Wicket is Easy After Overnight Storm

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday: Australian captain Lindsay Hassett used the heavy roller for seven minutes before play resumed this morning in the third Test cricket match…

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The Weather Thunder Storm Follows Hot, Sultry Spell

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 2

A short thunder storm last Saturday evening, during which 23 points of rain fell, gave Leeton residents' some relief from the…

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Lucky Escape From Drowning at Burrinjuck Boats Upset in Big Storm

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 2

A party of local fishermen, which visited Burrinjuck over the week-end, had a very lucky escape from drowning on Sunday afternoon. THE party consisted of Messrs…

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Darlington Point Floods May Isolate Town

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 1

There is a danger that continuing floods like those experienced over the past several months may sever the road leading in and out of…

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Nth. Wagga Assn. Backs Scheme to Prevent Floods

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 2

THE North Wagga Progress Association has decided to support Mr. B. Hoskings, the Wagga baker who has evolved a…

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Record Hail Storm Experienced at Temora

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 2

The worst hail storm in the history of Temora lashed the town for ten minutes shortly after midday last Sunday, leaving lawns completely…

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Lucky Escape From Drowning at Bitrrinjuck Boats Upset In Big Storm

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 1

A Party of Cootamundra fisher men which visited Burrinjuck over tin week end had very lucky escape from drowning on…

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Lucky escape from drowning at Burrinjuck Boats Upset in Big Storm

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 1

A party of Cootamundra fishermen which visited Burrinjuck over the week-end had a very lucky escape from drowning on…

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Rockhampton Prepares for Flood

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tues.: Families have been evacuated from lowlying areas of Rockbampton and wharves stripped of cargo in…

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Queensland Floods Cause Big Stock Loss

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Big stock losses have been caused by floods in Central Queensland. Hundreds of dead sheep have…

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Preventing Hail Storms

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 5

Successful experiments are reported from America by airmen using an element called X for dispersing hail storms and so preventing damage to…

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Collier Sinks in Gale After Hitting Reef Five Survivors So Far Reach Shore

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday — The 500-ton collier Kiama hit a reef and sank off Tuggerah during a fierce gale early this morning. Some of the crew, escaped from the vessel in lifeboats and a raft, and…

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Freak Storm Nearly Wrecks Farm

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 2

WEST WYALONG, Friday: A freak storm yesterday afternoon on the property of Mr. Walter Moxham, of Blow Clear, near…

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Coaster Founders in Storm Six Believed Drowned

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The Maritime Services Board will hold a full investigation into the foundering of the 550 tons coastal ship, Kiama, during a…

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Flood Insurance

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 2

The evacuation of 100 Maitland families from their homes in the town's eighth flood in two years, and the estimated millions of pounds worth of damage, has again raised the question: what is to be done to…

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Rescued From Tree in Flooded River

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Herbert May, 28, of Windsor, narrowly escaped drowning while engaged in rescue work near…

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300 Maitland People Homeless Through Floods

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Rising backwaters at flood- stricken South Maitland today forced another 50 people from their homes. About 300 residents are now homeless, and…

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