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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 104

Dance for Flood Relief

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 4

A dancc held in Warragamba Town Hall on Wednesday evening, 27th ult., in. aid of the. flood relief fund realised about £20…

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MAITLAND Archbishop Marella Sees Flood Damage

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 4

His Excellency the Apostolic Delegate (Archbishop Marella) was the guest of His Lordship Bishop Gleeson at Bishop's House on…

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Flooded mine men on strike

The Sun · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 2

Men engaged on reclamation work at Aberdare Extended (flooded recently) struck today in protest…

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200 Cut Off in Flood 'Pocket'

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 12

Two hundred people living on scattered farms in a flooded district near St. Albans have been almost cut off for three weeks…

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Big Death Roll In Chinese Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 1

CANTON, Thursday.--Disastrous floods are sweeping Kwantung and Hunan Provinces…

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Big Death Roll In Chinese Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 1

CANTON, Thursday.--Disastrous floods are sweeping Kwantung and Hunan Provinces…

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Big Death Roll In Chinese Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 1

CANTON, Thursday.--Disastrous floods are sweeping Kwantung and Hunan Provinces…

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Big Death Roll In Chinese Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 July 1949 · page 1

CANTON, Thursday.--Disastrous floods are sweeping Kwantung and Hunan Provinces…

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Gale blows away plane

The Sun · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 12

CHRISTCHURCH (NZ), Friday.--An 86-mile-an-hour gale picked up a Dakota training aircraft anchored by…

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Cronulla Sea Wall Breaks Up Storm Damage to Shire, £50,000

The Observer · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 4

Sutherland Shire has suffered badly in the recent flood rains and gales. Great areas of roads have washed out, water tables have banked over…

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Illawarra Floods Damage Crops, Cold Browns Pastures

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 4

SOME 12-in to 10-in. of rain fell in the Illawarra district in 17 days of June. This resulted in large tracts of country becoming water…

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Monthly Reports Highlight Flood Damage Silt Deposits Of Poor Quality Soil

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 6

JUNE, 1949, will long be remembered by farmers in the Lower Hunter as the month of the record flood when thousand of acres of rich country were inundated, states the Newcastle agronomist (Mr.Dawson) in his monthly report…

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Milk Supplies.On The Increase After Floods In Zone

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 5

MORE vegetable growers and lucerne-growers than dairy farmers had been seriously affected in production by the…

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Guides' Scheme To Aid Flood Victims

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 7

Sixteen girls, from six to 15 years old, who are victims of the Maitland floods, arrived in Sydney by train last night and…

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'Forgotten' Flood Pocket: This Was an Orchard . . . and This Was a Road!

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 3

THREE WEEKS after the big floods there is still so much water round one "pocket" of 200 people in the St. Albans district that they can be reached only over a bridle path through the mountains. Picture shows some of the thousands of tons of driftwood deposited by the floods on citrus groves in the McDonald River Valley…

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More Help Needed for Flood Victims

Truth · Sunday 10 July 1949 · page 38

THE Mayor of Maitland (Ald. Fahey) said yesterday that £16,000 had been contributed in public donations in response to…

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Maitland Needs Still More For Flood Relief

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 10 July 1949 · page 4

The Mayor of Maitland, Alderman F. O. Fahey, has written to "The Sunday Herald" stating he is making another…

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Rescue after 100 miles in gale

The Sun · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday.-- Blown north more than 100 miles by a south- westerly gale, two young men who left Neutral Bay yesterday were rescued by the pilot seamer,…

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Storms Ahead

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 11

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Storms Ahead

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 11

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