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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

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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 · Monday 11 July 1949 · page 11

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Storms Ahead

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Flood Fund

The Sun · Tuesday 12 July 1949 · page 5

A further donation -- five guineas from M. J. Bultian -- has taken the Maitland Flood Relief Fund to £23918-…

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Storm Damage in Hills District

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 2

Baulkham Hills Council last week adopted the report of its Engineer (Mr. R. J. Wagener) on damage caused by recent…

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Flood Damage

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 2

"A friend in need is a friend, indeed," says Ald. R. T. C. Storey, President of the Local Government Association…

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Red Cross Service Country People Help Flood Victims

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 1

Country people responded magnificently to the State-wide Red Cross appeal for food and clothing to relieve the plight of victims of the recent disastrous…

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Flood Warnings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 2

Sir,—We, residents of Hawkesbury River and surrounding districts, would like an explanation why no flood warnings were…

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Move to Ease Flood Danger

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 10

ORGANISATIONS in the Hunter Valley are urging appointment of local trusts with statutory powers to control the…

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Move to Ease Flood Danger

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 10

ORGANISATIONS in the Hunter Valley are urging appointment of local trusts with statutory powers to control the…

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Move to Ease Flood Danger

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 10

ORGANISATIONS in the Hunter Valley are urging appointment of local trusts with statutory powers to control the…

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Move to Ease Flood Danger

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 10

ORGANISATIONS ill the Hunter Valley are- urging appointment of local trusts with statutory powers to control the…

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Scouts' Good Work in the Flood

Nepean Times · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

Scoutmaster I. Leeding, Assistant Scoutmaster W. Callendar, and nine of the Penrith Boy Scouts were among the 500 Scouts and their leaders who…

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Thousands die in floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

HONGKONG, Wed.--Twenty thousand people have been killed or injured in widespread Hoods in central and south China. Two million people are homeless and the main…

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Hunter Farmers Seek Flood Control, Water Conservation

The Land · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 28

DELEGATES from all parts of the Hunter Valley met at Maitland last week and decided to ask the Government to establish a Hunter Valley Trust to deal with flood control water…

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Flood Losses In Vegetable Areas 'Appalling'

The Land · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

THE recent floods had caused appalling losses on Hunter and Hawkesbury vegetable farms…

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Dairymen's Flood Losses Lighter Than First Expected

The Land · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 6

THE blow to the dairying industry by the Hunter River flood, while bad enough, is not as severe as was at first expected…

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Sydney Camp For Girl Guides From Flooded Areas

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 19

GIRL Guides from the Maitland area, who are suffering from shock as a result of the recent floods, are being accommodated at…

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Most Corn Crops Were Ensiled Before June Floods Came

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 22

MOST corn crops in the County of Cumberland had been enslied before the disastrous floods of late June occurred, reported the…

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