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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 104

Victims of 65 m.p.h. Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 3

Only the sidewalls of this tent at North Curl Curl camping area were left standing after a gale last night. Nearly all the tents in the area were damaged…

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Victims Of 65 m.p.h. Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 3

Only the sidewalls of this tent at North Curl Curl camping area were left standing after a gale last night. Nearly all the tents in the area were damaged…

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Victims Of 65 m.p.h. Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 3

Only the sidewalls of this tent at North Curl Curl camping area were left standing after a gale last night. Nearly all the tents in the area were damaged…

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Ship Driven Ashore in Fierce Harbor Gale

The Sun · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 2

The 7000- ton Italian freighter Orione went ashore early this morning off Kurraba Point after fighting last night's gale for several hours with dragging anchors…

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Victims Of 65 m.p.h. Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 3

Only the sidewalls of this tent at North Curl Curl camping area were left standing after a gale last night. Nearly all the tents in the area were damaged…

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Late News Phone: M2406 Gale-force Gusts at Mascot Drome

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 20

Wind velocity at Mascot aerodrome early today reached 50 miles an hour. (See Page 5.) RICHARDS RIDES 100TH…

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7000-Tons Freighter Driven Aground in Harbor Ordeal In Night Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

TORN from her anchorage m Athol Bight, the Italian freighter Orione (7176 tons) was swept against Kurraba Point, Neutral Bay, at 2.30 a.m. this…

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Overall Pastoral Conditions Fair Some Areas Flooded

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 8

FLOODINGS in the western division of Nes South Wales and parts of East Gippsland in Victoria were highlights of seasonal conditions in Australia during May, according to the monthly report received yesterday from the Graziers'…

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Flood Waters In Lake Eyre

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 19

ADELAIDE—That northern residents now believe that Cooper's Creek flood waters have reached Lake Eyre is of…

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Teachers' Camp Flooded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 7

The conference of the University Arts Society, fixed for to-day at Castlereagh Teachers' College camp, has been abandoned. The…

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More Rain Likely In Flood Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

The Weather Bureau last night forecast further heavy rain and continued local flooding in New South Wales. Areas of greatest flood…

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Petrol Tanks Afloat in Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 3

Clinton's Motors Pty Ltd., garage at Hume Highway, Narellan, with its new petrol tanks floating in floodwaters yesterday. Earth over the tanks, which had been newly installed, was washed away by the flood and the tanks floated to the surface…

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View of Flooded Lowlands at Camden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 4

General view, looking towards Camden, of the flooded lowlands and paddocks at the back of the Camden Showground yesterday. More than 640 acres in this area are under water…

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Wild Weather Floods Mines, Halts Colliers

The Sun · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

Flood waters have put two collieries at Cessnock out of…

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Floods isolate Camden, roads, bridges awash

The Sun · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 5

Camden has keen cut off by Nepean River flood waters, roads to Windsor are under water and rail services to Narellan and Kurrajong have been suspended. Camden's 3000 residents…

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8 Men Escape From Cessnock Mine Flood 80 Horses May Drown

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Friday. -- Eight miners had .to fight for their lives when floodwaters from Bellbird Creek flooded the big Aberdare Extended…

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Twelve Escape From Cessnock Mine Flood 80 Horses May Drown

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Friday.--A dozen maimers head fro fight for their Hives when floodwaters from Bellbird Creek flooded the big Aberdare Extended…

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Railway Hold-up in Flood

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 5

ALTHOUGH floodwaters are falling in most coastal regions, leaving behind a trail of wreckage, the Nepean River rose three feet overnight, and is…

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8 Men Escape From Cessnock Mine Flood 80 Horses May Drown

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Friday. -- Eight miners had to fight for their lives when floodwaters from Bellbird Creek flooded the big Aberdare Extended…

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Miners Fight for Lives As Waters Flood Mine 80 Horses May Drown

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Friday.--A dozen miners had to fight for their lives when Hood waters from Bellbird Greek flooded the big Aberdare Extended…

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