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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

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Gale-force winds disrupt shipping

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursdays Gale-force winds have whipped up mountainous seas along the N.S.W. coast,…

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Icy gales sweep Europe

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Sun, (A.A.P.): ley gales swept Europe yesterday causing death and destruction in the wake of…

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Farms Flooded by Cloudburst: Heavy Damage

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Floods caused by a freak cloudburst deluged 150 farms at Werribee South today. Loses are…

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Grief Storm Lashes Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 2

Twenty-one points of rain fell during a brief storm in Wagga yesterday. Rain lashed Wagga for…

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Salvaged Boat After Floods Charged with Illegally Using

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 4

At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday last before Mr. K. W. Smith, S M., Cecil William…

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Freak Storms Start Fires

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

Freak weather was reported today by Mr. W. K. Boxsell, of Cullings, where 180 points of rain were registered last night…

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Grafton Hybrid Storm-proof

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 28 January 1954 · page 6

An Australian maize hybrid inbred developed by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture at its…

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Heavy Rain in the Riverina Not Welcome

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 2

Few people welcomed the heavy rain which fell over a wide area in Riverina yesterday. The rain:—…

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Warning of storm sent to Gothic

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 February 1954 · page 1

ON THE CRUISER BLACK PRINCE, Sunday (AAP): Storm warnings have been radioed to the…

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Deluge of Rain Heaviest on Record for January

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 3

The rain which commenced to fall on Thursday night was followed by further heavy rain on Friday, Saturday and the early…

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India harnesses its rivers of woe to Prevent Floods and Droughts

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 6

Drought and floods constitute India's main tragedy. Often there is drought in parts where the…

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Flood Waters From Mirrool Creek Hit Irrigation Area Yesterday

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 2

The heavy rains which fell in the Temora district last week caused the Mirrool Creek to reach flood dimensions…

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Serious Floods in Qld.: Cyclone on Way

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday: A tropical cyclone was moving towards the southeast corner of Queensland. The Weather Bureau issued warnings of serious flooding as the cyclone entered the Beylando and Fitxroy River catchment areas…

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Sisters drown: Old. floods

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday: Two sisters, aged five and six, were drowned when they tried to cross a flooded creek at Mount Gravatt, an outer South Brisbane…

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Properties Undamaged by Diverted Storm Water Storm Damage to Dullah-methul Road

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 7

At Tuesday’s council meeting, the Engineer (Mr. J. Champion) reported that the rain, of an intensity which might be expected only at intervals of 25 years or so,…

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Two Drowned in Queensland Floods

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday: Two stockmen were swept from their horses and drowned while to cross creeks in…

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Man Rescued in Flood

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 3

ROCKHAMPTON, Tuesday: A railway employee this morning saved an 18-year-old newspaper employee from being swept from a railway bridge and drowned…

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New flood threat

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thursday: A cyclone of extreme intensity is tonight bearing down on the flooded Central Districts…

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"Miracle" Wind Saves Flood-bound City

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday: A "miracle" wind today saved flood-stricken Rockhampton and other Queensland coastal towns from one of the State's worst…

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Eighteen Lives Lost in North Coast Floods Casino's Desperate Plight

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday — The death roll in the tragic North Coast floods has now. reached 18, with the possibility of another four lives being added to the list of drownings…

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