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Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 104

One of the Big Floods Devastation in the Nepean Valley Inundations at Wallacia, Penrith

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 1

THE flood waters that came down the Nepean River last week-end reached a height recorded at Wallacia as 38 feet above summer level, the highest since the weir was built in 1912, and the flood is claimed there to be the greatest since…

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Transport Need for Parcels to Flood Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 7

So many members have responded to the C.W.A.'s appeal for clothing for flood victims that parcels are piling up at…

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East Maitland Flood Relief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 1

Mrs. H. Hodges, of East Maitland, serves tea to Mrs. I. Ford, a cripple, who was flooded out of her home. Mrs. Hodges was also flooded out of her home with her four children. She is assisting with flood relief at the East Maitland Returned Servicemen's League hall…

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Flooded Maitland Resents Power Cut By Our Staff Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 3

MAITLAND, Wednesday.—People in Maitland are incensed that the city, disrupted by its worst flood, is being subjected to the same electricity restrictions as other towns in the State…

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Relief for Flood Victims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 3

Constable S. Luxford, of Newcastle police, distributes food fo flood victims at East Maitland police station. This food was donated and also provided by the Department of Social Welfare…

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Flood Relief Tour Members Of Joint Committee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 3

The Premier, Mr. McGirr, announced last night that members of the Commonwealth-State Flood Relief Committee would visit country centres to-day, to-morrow and…

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A woman goes home Report on the flood

The Sun · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 13

MAITLAND, Thursday.--Mrs. Maude Arthur, mother of three young children, came back today to the home from which the advancing flood waters had driven her last Saturday. Here is her story:--…

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Clothes for flood victims

The Sun · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 7

The Red Cross is making an urgent State-wide appeal for warm clothing for flood victims, many of…

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Epidemic threat of 'flu in flooded Maitland area

The Sun · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 7

MAITLAND, Thursday.--A serious epidemic of severe colds and infuenza is sweeping the Maitland flood area, heightening the sufferings of the thousands of homeless and destitute people…

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Water Wrecking Flooded Homes £40,000 Govt. relief offer "inadequate"

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 7

MAITLAND, Wed.--Today I stood near Maitland railway station and watched flood waters wrecking a dozen homes still partly submerged…

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Floods cut off Vic. town

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Floods tonight isolated the town of Mario, hear Orbost, with several hundred residents…

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Clothing Appeal for Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 2

THE Red Cross is making an appeal for warm clothing suitable for immediate issue to victims of the floods in…

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Many Brick Pits Flooded

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 2

Brick production had fallen because many of the pits were flooded, the Minister for Building…

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House Engulfed by Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 2

Floods in N.S.W. were paralleled last week on a small scale at Roggen, Colorado, when a reservoir dyke broke and cascaded a flood of water into a normally dry railway cutting. In the process, the water snatched up the…

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Mystery of Body in Cook's River Believed Flood Victim Inspection of Ravaged Area

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 5

RELIEVED to be a flood victim, the well-dressed body of an unidentified man was found floating in Cook's River, Tempe, this morning…

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Clothing Appeal for Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 1

THE Red Cross is making an appeal for warm clothing suitable for immediate issue to victims of the floods in…

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Many Brick Pits Flooded

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 4

Brick production had fallen because many of the pits were flooded, the Minister for Building…

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Mystery of Body in Cook's River Believed Flood Victim Inspection of Ravaged Area

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 5

BELIEVED to be a flood victim, the well-dressed body of an unidentified man was found floating in Cook's River, Tempe, this morning…

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House Engulfed by Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 2

Floods in N.S.W. were paralleled last week on a small scale at Roggen, Colorado, when a reservoir dyke broke and cascaded a flood of water into a normally dry railway cutting. In the process, the water snatched up the…

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Clothing Appeal for Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 2

THE Red Cross is making an appeal for warm clothing suitable for immediate issue to victims of the floods in…

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