Major Wagga Floods Again Likely May equal 1950 disaster
Wagga residents are preparing to receive a major flood which is expected to reach the proportions of the one in March,…
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Many Floods in N.s.w
SYDNEY, Monday: Many towns are isolated, hundreds of families have been forced to leave their homes, and thousands of acres of crops have been ruined as floods sweep through…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Hundreds of persons had been made homeless by floods, the N.S.W. Minister for Social Services (Mr. Finnan) said tonight "Temporary accommodation has been found in some instances, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to the Editor (We do not necessarily endorse the views of our correspondents) Floods (To the Editor, "The Daily Advertiser")
SIR.—A hundred years ago, on June 25, 1852, from the rainfall observation made in New South Wales by the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: Swirling floodwaters have disrupted road and rail connections and rendered temporarily useless more than 80 trunk line channels leading to floodbound districts in Eastern and Western Victoria…
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CANBERRA, Monday: Floodwaters today prevented the president (Mr. J. A. Ferguson) and two N.S.W. delegates from reaching Canberra for a meeting of the Federal Executive of…
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Mr. Jim Tiffen has been rendering splendid service to flood-bound settlers between Narrandera and Whitton during the past…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—A move to establish a £40,000 fund to assist victims of the current floods in N.S.W. was made…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—Raging flood waters cut Wagga in half early today, while 3000 homeless people congregated in temporary shelters in the town…
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An idea of the great spirit of co-operation that is being offered by all [?]tions of the community in the flood was apparent yesterday morning, en about 50 Wagga men attended a meeting at the Police Station to cuss arrangements for the welfare of flood evacuees…
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SYDNEY Tuesday: A move to establish a £40000 fund to assist victims of the current floods in N.S.W. was made…
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By late this afternoon, Wagga will be in the grip of a flood which, it is considered, will at least equal the size of the disastrous flooding in March of 1950. Mr. J. Wilks, secretary of the Flood Warning Committee, said that…
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Wagga City Council has arranged with the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commissioner for a senior engineer to proceed to Wagga so that he can review the flood here during the next few days. The engineer will. [?] is…
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Trail Street during the 1950 flood. In some low-lying places around this area the water rushed through the windows of houses. AN AERIAL BIEW of a road near Wagga which was completely submerged during the 1950 flood. This particular spot is about 1½ miles from Wagga…
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Scores of private vehicles, under direction of the Army, Air Force and Police, worked…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: In addition to Wagga and other Murrumbidgee centres, towns on the Lachlan are expecting the worst floods in [?] within the next two day. The worst flood since 1916…
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Four officers of the Department of [?] and Social Welfare will arrive in Wagga morning with the local Member, Mr. E. H. [?] ham,to distribute, where necessary, blankets…
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ARDLETHAN, Tuesday: Heavy rains last night have caused both the Bygoo and Mirrool Creeks to flood. Early…
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It is just on 100 years ago that the town of Wagga, then established only a few years, had its first flood—on June 26, 1852. There were two floods the following year, and in 1870…
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The office of the Juhee District Superintendent of Railways has offered all possible co-operation to the…
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