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Floods & storms, 1954

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Heavy Hail Storm Hits Gundagai

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 5 July 1954 · page 1

A heavy hail storm hit Gundagai this afternoon, and was followed by good rain. The storm did little damage…

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Hail Storm at "Wilgoma" Left Strip of Country as if Snow Had Fallen

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 1

A hail storm of almost indescribable intensity fell over a narrow strip of "Wilgoma," in the Euroagilly district, on Monday afternoon last, and covered the countryside with a solid mat that gave…

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Heavy rain prevents exhumation

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Heavy rain prevented police exhuming the body of a 35-year-old timber worker at Baradine to-day…

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Israelis Storm Egyptian Outpost

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 July 1954 · page 2

TEL AVIV, Sunday (AAP): Troops last night, stormed an Egyptian border outpost in Gaza strip, inflicting a…

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Lismore in Danger of Flood Again Murwillumbah Threatened Also

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 1

LISMORE, Tuesday —Thousands of people in valley areas around this city and Murwillumbah are today poised for flight…

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Big flood danger in Qld

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Monday: Flood danger in Southeastern Queensland worsened tonight as a new cyclone…

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Flood Danger Increases on Nth. Coast

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. The Sydney Weather Bureau tonight issue urgent flood warnings [?] Coast…

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Cyclone lashes Old. coast

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday: A trail of destruction 200 miles alone the Sooth Queensland coast was left…

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Lismore and Grafton in Path of Cyclone Swirling, Flood Waters Break Banks of Clarence River

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

LISMORE, Wednesday—Flood alarms shrilled in Lismore today as; a furious cyclone approaches from the sea, while in the Jacaranda city of Grafton terrified residents are racing to escape a mile-long…

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Flood Threatens Vienna Suburbs

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

VIENNA, Wednesday—Flood waters surging down the Danube overran some suburbs of Vienna yesterday as the river rose to a…

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Flood jitters in Lismore

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Lismore has the "flood jitters" tonight as the Richmond River continues to pour into lowlying areas of the city for the second…

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N. Coast Floods Are Abating Many Return to Their Homes

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 15 July 1954 · page 1

LISMORE, Thursday—The acute flood danger on the North Coast has now abated. Many evacuated families have…

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Flood Danger Passes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.: The N.S.W. North Coast was saved from its second flood this year when a cyclone…

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Bad Floods in Hungary Appeal to Soviet Troops to Help

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 July 1954 · page 1

VIENNA, Monday—The Hungarian Government appealed to Soviet, troops to help stem the floods ravaging the country…

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China on Top, of Flood Menage

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 July 1954 · page 1

NEW DELHI, Sunday (A.A.P.): China was rapidly conquering the age-old flood menace which…

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Further Flood Grant

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 23 July 1954 · page 1
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CANBERRA, Friday — The Commonwealth Government offered N.S.W. a further £15,000 flood relief grant on a £ for £…

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Snowy "Will Ease Bidgee Floods"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 2

The Snowy Mountains Scheme will reduce the risk of flooding in the Murrambidgee River…

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Flood C'ttee Likely to Disband

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 2

The Wagga Flood Control Advisory Committee may disband shortly. At a meeting of the committee last night, members said their efforts to…

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Flood control

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 31 July 1954 · page 2

It is no wonder that Wagga's flood Control Advisory Committee has met with little success in its attempts to have some form of flood prevention carried out in Wagga. What is everybody's…

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