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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1940

682 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 35

Librarian Trapped by Floods

The Sun · Monday 30 December 1940 · page 3

Trapped for more than six hours on a tiny island by a rapid rise in the Snowy River, the Chief…

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Public Librarian Marooned. Hauled to Safety Through Flooded River. JINDABYNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 December 1940 · page 7

After he had been marooned for five hours on a small island in the Snowy River during a storm on Saturday night, Mr. W. H. Ifould, chief public librarian, and a trustee of the…

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