Hundreds of Houses Cut Off by Floods Families In North Leave
HUNDREDS of houses in the Newcastle, lake Macquarie and Port Stephens district are surrounded by water, and man families have had to abandon their homes…
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New Homes At Herne Bay for Flood Victims
SEVEN families of the Narrabeen Lakes flood victims will be moved this afternoon to the Heme Bay naval camp area and provided with homes supplied by the State Housing…
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FLOODS on the north coast have isolated houses, drowned sheep and cattle and caused terrific damage. The Pacific Highway is under four feet…
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MARY WAKELING (left) and DORIS RUSSELL discarded shoes and stockings to cross the flooded roadway at the top of Oxford Falls, Brookvale, this afternoon. The swirling waters were deep enough in places to make the pair lift their skirts knee-high…
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FLOODS on the north coast have isolated houses, drowned sheep and cattle and caused terrific damage. The pacific Highway, between Sydney and…
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SEVEN families of the Narrabeen Lakes flood victims will be moved this afternoon to the Heme Bay naval camp area and provided with homes supplied by the State Housing…
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FLOODS on the north coast have isolated houses, drowned sheep and cattle and caused, terrific damage. The Pacific Highway is under four feet…
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EVEN families of the Narrabeen Lakes flood victims will be moved this afternoon to the Herne Bay naval camp area and provided with homes supplied by the State Housing…
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A moderate cyclonic low moved southwards during Wednesday night, and yesterday its peak intensity was reached 100 miles out…
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Floods and frost have combined to cause the estimated loss of 250,000 bushels of maize on the North Coast and Northern Tablelands, where…
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Gondola Street, Narrabeen, yesterday was flooded and residents thought its name appropriate. John Ashton (on his bike), Eileen Dawson, and Mrs. J. Putsey had to wade through the flooded street to do their shopping…
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Dozens of Balmain families were this week flooded out of dilapidated houses which owners have refused to repair. THESE families, many of whom…
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More than 50 families were flooded out when many low-lying areas around Lake Macquarie were inundated during torrential rain yesterday…
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North Coast floods and rail washaways yesterday held up holiday road traffic and dislocated train services. Thousands of holiday-makers who went to…
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GOSFORD, Friday.--A horse-drawn dray, a motor lorry and an ambulance were used by Gosford ambulance officers during a six-hour struggle through flooded country to get a woman to hospital…
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FEARS are held for the safety of six families whose farms were swept by terrific floods at Eagleton last night. The Hunter River has hurst its banks, and heavy rain…
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FEARS ore held for the safety of six families whose forms were swept by terrific floods at Eagleton last night. The second division of the Brisbane Express and a…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday.—When the floodwaters receded in Newcastle to-day the body of Terence Reginald Hudson, 9, of Macquarie Street, Mayfield, was found wedged in an 18-inch drain-pipe…
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A terrific volume of Water carried by the Cockfighter River which rises at Wollombi and enters the Hunter above Raymond Terrace…
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The Hunter River burst its banks at Eagleton last night and the police are gravely concerned about the safety of six farming…
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