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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 104

Heavy Rain Fills Dams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 1

Sydney's water storage dams now hold about 103 thousand million gallons, the secretary of the Water…

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Heavy Rain Fills Dams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

Sydney's water storage dams now hold about 103 thousand million gallons, the secretary of the Water…

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Heavy. Rain Fills Dams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 4

Sydney's water storage dams now hold about 103 thousand million gallons, the secretary of the Water…

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Heavy Rain Fills . Dams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 4

Sydney s water storage dams now hold about 103 thousand million gallons, the secretary of the Water…

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Heavy Rain Fills Dams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 1

Sydney's water storage dams now hold about 103 thousand million gallons, the secretary of the Water…

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Heavy Rain Fills Dams

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 4

Sydney's water storage dams now hold about 103 thousand million gallons, the secretary of the Water…

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Deluge Leaves Trail of Ruin Cyclone Moving Away From Coast Repairs to Rail Lines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

THE cyclonic depression, which has caused torrential rains and gales in coastal districts since Saturday night, is moving out to sea, and leaving finer…

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Deluge Leaves Trail of Ruin Cyclone Moving Away From Coast Repairs to Rail Lines

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

THE cyclonic depression, which has caased torrential rains and gales in coastal district's since Saturday night, is moving out to sea, and leaving finer…

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Storm Damage

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 5

NARRABEEN CAMPERS J. Thompson (left) and K. Gunther walking through water at the flooded camp yesterday. During a storm early yesterday the wind tore their tents and rain soaked their bedding and clothes. They said that this was the third consecutive year that storms had flooded them out…

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Surfer's Ordeal In Gale

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 2

Swept from his surf ski in huge seas about a mile off Cronulla beach this afternoon, a lifesaver was…

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Cyclone Moving Out to Sea Fine Day For City Tomorrow Repairs to Washaways

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

THE cyclonic depression, which has caused torrential rains and gales in coastal districts since Saturday night, is moving out to sea, and leaving finer…

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Cyclone Moving Out to Sea Fine Day For City Tomorrow Repairs to Washaways

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

THE cyclonic depression, which has caused torrential rains and gales in coastal districts since Saturday night, is moving out to sea, and leaving finer…

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Cyclone Moving Out to Sea Fine Day For City Tomorrow Repairs to Washaways

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

The cyclonic depression, which has caused torrential rains and gales in coastal districts since Saturday night, is moving out to sea, and leaving finer…

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Cyclone Moving Out to Sea Fine Day For City Tomorrow Repairs to Washaways

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

THE cyclonic depression, which has caused torrential rains and gales in coastal districts since Saturday night, is moving out to sea, and leaving finer…

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Cyclone Moving Out to Sea Fine Day For City Tomorrow Repairs to Washaways

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 3

The cyclonic depression, which has caused torrential rains and gales in coastal districts since Saturday night, is moving out to sea, and leaving finer…

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Beer Drinkers Defied Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 1

GOSFORD, Monday.—In ihe three-storey Hotel Gosford, during the rain to-day water was a foot deep in…

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Seagulls On Flooded Oval

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 7

Flocks of seagulls floated last night on Manly Oval, where Panamanian [?]printer Lloyd La Beach is to have…

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Windsor gardens ruined by flood-waters Floods subsiding, but vegetable crops hit

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 1

Although nearly another two inches of rain fell in Sydney in the 24 hours to 9 o'clock today, the weather is clearing, floods are subsiding, and services (except telephones), have been restored…

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16 Trains Held Up in Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 1

Washaways near Gosford and Woy Woy, caused by heavy rains, yesterday held up 16 trains on the…

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Flood of Sewage in Commn. Homes

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1949 · page 7

Rain water, which forced out the cover of a manhole in MacArthur Ave., Strathfield, yesterday, flooded Housing Commission homes with sewage. MR. ALBERT NELSON, a…

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