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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 104

5 rivers flood low land

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wed.--Melting snow and heavy rain caused five…

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Police Use Boats in Vic. Floods

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday. --Families in many Victorian towns have been isolated by floods which…

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Police Use Boats in Vic. Floods

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday. --Families in many Victorian towns have been isolated by floods which…

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Victorian Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —Almost every river in southeastern Gippsland, east of the Latrobe River, broke its banks…

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£107,000 Flood Damage in Riverside Orchards

The Land · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 1

AN official survey shows that recent flood damage in citrus orchards along the Hawkesbury, Colo and McDonald Rivers will be about £107,000. District Fruit Officer, E. C. Levitt,…

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Women's Interests Novel Plan To Help Maitland Flood Victims Muswellbrook C.W.A. Adopts Families

The Land · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 19

MUSWELLBROOK Branch of the C.W.A. and the Younger Set of the same branch, have adopted two…

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Maitland Flood Relief

The Land · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 19

MORE than £100 of flood relief donations have been spent this week by Headquarters of the C.W.A. in the purchase of bath towels, baby's…

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Devastating Effects Of Floods On Citrus Orchards "Must Be Seen To Be Believed"

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 8

DAMAGE to orchards, especially on the lower and central McDonald River Past Wiseman's Ferry, had to be scan to be believed, said the Government's citrus expert (Mr. Kebby) yesterday. "I have never seen anything as devastating. It was…

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Man drowned in Vic. floods

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Gippsland floods drowned a man and swamped thousands of acres of rich farm land…

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New Fiction Music of the Storm, by David John Welsh.—The Falcon Press Ltd., London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 July 1949 · page 6

WHEN a beautiful English widow of 26, living with her younger sister in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors,…

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Refugees are flood victims New Delhi, Saturday. --

The Sun · Saturday 23 July 1949 · page 2

Twelve inches of rain have fallen in New Delhi in an incessant three-day downpour dislocating traffic and…

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Storm Over Margaret's London Party

Truth · Sunday 24 July 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Saturday.—An "incident" during the week in which the central figure was none other than the petite and vivacious, but at times unconventional, Princess Margaret, has provided the upper crust of Britain's…

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Cheap Jap Toys Flooding U.S. Market From Our Staff Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 24 July 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, July 23.—Japanese toys are flooding the United States to such an extent that many American…

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Heavy Rain Along Coast Warning Issued To Shipping Snow Kills Sheep

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 6

MORE than two inches of rain fell at points along the coastal region during the past 24 hours…

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More Heavy Rain Tipped Warning Issued To Shipping Snow Kills Sheep

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 6

HEAVY rain which swept the central coastal region during the past 24 hours resulted in…

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Heavy Rain Along Coast Warning Issued To Shipping Snow Kills Sheep

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 6

MORE than two inches of rain fell at points along the coastal region during the past 24 hours…

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Heavy Rain Along Coast Warning Issued To Shipping Snow Kills Sheep

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 6

MORE than two inches of rain fell at points along the coastal region during the past 24 hours…

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Carrier to rescue in gale

The Sun · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 9

Petty-Officer Jack Hastings, DSM, of Perth, was he hero of a sea drama off Kiama yesterday…

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Flood Danger Looms Again Anxious Maitland Watches River

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 1

Maitland people fear further floods if rain continues. Both the Hastings and Hunter Rivers are rising after heavy rain over eastern New South Wales yesterday…

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Hundreds flee homes when river floods Maitland again

The Sun · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 3

Maitland has again been hit by floods--the second in six weeks--and hundreds of families are evacuating their homes in low-lying areas. As menfolk load furniture on to waiting lorries, women…

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