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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 104

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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Clothing Appeal for Flood Victims

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 16

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

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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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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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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 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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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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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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Flood Damage. in Southebn Districts

The Biz · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 1

Widespread damage was done over a large area by the record rains and the flcodwaters in this district were only receding on Monday. Market gardeners were…

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Storm Damage to Catalina

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

A QANTAS Catalina which broke from its moorings at Lord Howe Island and ran ashore during a gale has been…

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Storm Damage to Catalina

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

A QANTAS Catalina which broke from its moorings at Lord Howe Island and ran ashore during a gale has been…

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Storm Damage to Catalina

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

A QANTAS Catalina which broke-from its moorings at Lord Howe Island and ran ashore during a gale has been…

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Storm Damage to Catalina

Daily Mirror · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

A QANTAS Catalina which broke from its moorings at Lord Howe Island and ran ashore during a gale has been…

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Hunter Valley Flood Mitigation Programme

The Land · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 1

A FLOOD mitigation programme for the Hunter Valley to cost over £10,000,000, the work to extend over 20 years, has been adopted by the State Government…

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Flood Damage Heaviest In Years Thousands Still Homeless

The Land · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 1

OFFICIAL estimates of damage in the Hunter, Hawkesbury and Nepean floods are not yet…

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Red Cross Aids Flood Victims

The Land · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 1

THE Red Cross Society early this week made a Statewide appeal for clothing for flood victims, and all Red Cross branches are co-operating and forwarding supplies…

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An Exceptional Flood Disaster

The Land · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 4

FARMERS in the Hunter and Hawkesbury Valleys, especially vegetable growers and dairymen, have suffered an exceptional disaster in this week's floods. They will receive the sympathy of the whole…

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N.S.W. Coastal Floods Cause Havoc `Lives Lost, Families Homeless, Farms Inundated, Crops Destroyed Grave Vegetable Shortage Threatened

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

WIDESPREAD havoc, especially in the Hunter River Valley, was caused by severe floods late last week. It was reported yesterday that floodwaters were covering 10 square miles of south and east Maitland. Seven people in New South Wales lost their lives during…

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Clothing Needed For Flood Victims

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 2

AUSTRALIAN Red Cross Society (N.S.W. Division) making an urgent Statewide appeal for warm…

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Government Speeds Measures To Aid Victims Of Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 2

EVERYTHING possible was being by his Department to assist stock owners affected by the disastrous floods in the Maitland, Singleton and other districts, said the N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) yesterday. [?]…

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