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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 104

North Flood Danger Over

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 2

MAITLAND, Thursday.--The river at Maitland had dropped to 25 feet this morning and danger of…

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Flooded Roads Slow Down Car in North

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 2

Car on the main road to Hinton, near Morpeth, making a big "bow" wave as it pushes its way through…

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Farm Building and Constrution Drying-out Wet, Flooded Homes

The Land · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 13

UNLESS skillfully treated, houses submerged in winter floods could be uninhabitable until improved by months of summer weather, and any unplanned method of drying out could…

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Flood Danger Passes At Maitland

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 2

FORTUNATELY, the danger of the Hunter River breaking its banks and flooding Maitland again was averted on Wednesday…

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Flood Relief Grant

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 4

THE Commonwealth Government should have granted at least £100,000 to relieve the distress and losses caused by the recent disastrous…

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Storms kill 10,000 sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 August 1949 · page 7

At least 10,000 of the 1,000,000 sheep in the Cooma district had died in recent snowfalls, Mr. F. L. Clark said last night…

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Women Send Flood Of Mail To Haigh

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 August 1949 · page 12

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Women throughout Britain are writing letters to vampire killer John George Haigh, who is receiving the biggest fan mail of any condemned man for many years…

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Women Send Flood Of Mail To Haigh

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 August 1949 · page 12

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Women throughout Britain are writing letters to vampire killer John George Haigh, who is receiving the biggest fan mail of any condemned man for many years…

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Women Send Flood Of Mail To Haigh

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 August 1949 · page 6

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Women throughout Britain are writing letters to vampire killer John George Haigh, who is receiving the biggest fan mail of any condemned man for many years…

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Women Send Flood Of Mail To Haigh

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 August 1949 · page 12

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Women throughout Britain are writing letters to vampire killer John George Haigh, who is receiving the biggest fan mail of any condemned man for many years…

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"Dollar-wasting" Storm Criticism Of U.K. Mounting Hurdles for Cripps, Bevin

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Monday.-- Criticism of Britain's "dollar-wasting Socialistic policy," amounting in some cases to open hostility, has grown to a…

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"Dollar-wasting" Storm Criticism Of U.K. Mounting Hurdles for Cripps, Bevin

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Monday.--Criticism of Britain's "dollar-wasting Socialistic policy," amounting in some cases to open hostility, has grown to a…

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"Dollar-wasting" Storm Criticism Of U.K.. Mounting Hurdles for Cripps. Bevin

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Monday.--Criticism of Britain's "dollar-wasting Socialistic policy," amounting in some cases to open hostility, has grown to a…

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"Dollar-wasting" Storm Criticism Of U.K. Mounting Hurdles for Cripps, Bevin

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Monday.-- Criticism of Britain's "dollar-wasting Socialistic policy," amounting in some cases to open hostility, has grown to a…

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"Dollar-wasting" Storm Criticism Of U.K. Mounting Hurdles for Cripps, Bevin

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Monday.-- Criticism of Britain's "dollar-wasting Socialistic policy," amounting in some cases to open hostility, has grown, to a…

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Storm Over Kissing by Schoolboys

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 18

LONDON. -- "Someone told the headmaster at a London high school that some of the boys had been…

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Storm Over Kissing by Schoolboys

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 18

LONDON. -- "Someone told the headmaster at a London high school that some of the boys had been…

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Storm Over Kissing by Schoolboys

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 18

LONDON. -- "Someone told the headmaster at a London high school that some of the boys had been…

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Floods increase misery in quakes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tues.--Floods and torrential rain are increasing the miseries of thousands of people made homeless by the Ecuador earthquakes…

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MAITLAND Mayor Thanks Bishop For Flood Work

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 4

His Lordship the Most Rev. B. Gleeson. C.S.S.R., D.D., received a letter from the Mayor of Maitland (Alderman F. O. Fahey) thanking…

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