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Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 104

Flood Menace Growing In Many Parts Of State Rural Districts Cut Off by Rising Water

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 19 June 1949 · page 4

A roundup from "Sunday Herald" correspondents yesterday showed that floods had caused widespread damage—and that the danger was growing as rain continued…

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Storm Changes Face Of Beaches

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 6

Hundreds of persons yesterday combed Sydney beaches looking for valuables uncovered by the storm. HEAVY seas have changed the appearance of most…

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Faces Of Sydney Beaches Changed By Fierce Gale

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 6

Hundreds of persons yesterday combed Sydney beaches looking for valuables uncovered by the storm. HEAVY seas have changed the appearance of most…

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Faces Of Sydney Beaches Changed By Fierce Gale

Daily Mirror · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 6

Hundreds of persons yesterday combed Sydney beaches looking for valuables uncovered by the storm. HEAVY seas have changed the appearance of most…

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Maitland Railway Station Covered by Fl00dwaters Floods Begin To Recede; Extensive Damage Revealed To Homes, Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 1

The great floods along the central coast of New South Wales are beginning to recede. As the waters fall, extensive damage to homes, farms and crops is being revealed…

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Power Ban Likely for Industry Miners' Threat And Floods Mean Black Week Ahead

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 1

This week is going to be the blackest week most Sydney people have known in peace-time. A meeting of State Cabinet to-day is…

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This Playground Now a Pond 1,600 Homes Under Water Or Uninhabitable In Flood-bound Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 4

MAITLAND, Sunday.—It was officially estimated to-day that 1,600 homes in the Maitland district are under water or uninhabitable. This afternoon sandbags gave way in the streets and water poured into the Horseshoe Bend section of the town, where about 1,000…

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Strike And Floods Mean Less Meat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 3

The secretary of the Meat and Allied Trades Federation, Mr. T. A. Herbert, said last night that there would be a severe meat shortage in Sydney for most of this week…

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Flood Scenes at Maitland Yesterday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 3

TOP: Merewether Surf Club trew row down Maitland's main street The crew assisted in rescue work and…

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Roads Survey In Flooded Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 4

A Main Roads Department official last night gave this report on highways in heavyrainfall areas:—…

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Floods still hold up coal

The Sun · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 1

At least 34 mines are out of production today--mainly because of floods--for a coal loss of 16,000 tons…

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Govt. grant expected for victims of floods

The Sun · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 5

An immediate financial grant from the State Government to assist flood victims has been recommended to the Premier (Mr. McGirr) by the Flood Relief Committee. Mr. McGirr will submit the…

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Flood-ravaged Maitland has 6000 homeless people

The Sun · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 5

Mainland passed its flood crisis during the night, when the Hunter River dropped five feet, but the picture is one of widespread desolation and vast losses. The backwater, which…

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Floodwaters delay liner

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 9

Floodwaters from Parramatta and Lane Cove Rivers backing into, Walsh Bay delayed berthing of the liner Athenic (15,300…

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Northern Floods Force Milk Cuts Gas blackout affects bread

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 7

Sydney's milk will be rationed by two-thirds today. The city will have sufficient bread today, but supplies will be reduced tomorrow in…

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Bird's-eye View of Flooding

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 7

This is what a Daily Telegraph reporter saw when he flew over flooded areas yesterday…

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Flooded Factory

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 7

AIR picture of a flooded factory on the banks of the Hunter River yesterday…

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6000 Homeless in Flooded City Anxiety as clouds threaten more rain

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 5

MAITLAND, Sun.--Tonight Maitland is a city of misery and fear. Floods have driven nearly 6000 people from their homes, the water has not fallen and more rain seems…

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10,000 People Homeless in Record Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 1

Six people hove been drowned and 10,000 are homeless in the worst floods in the State's history. Around Maitland the Hunter River,…

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10,000 Homeless in N.s.w. Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 June 1949 · page 3

Picture taken from a Daily Telegraph plane yesterday of a section of Maitland. Floodwaters are in 4200 Maitland homes…

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