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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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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