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Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 104

Fertility Loss In Flooded Soils

The Land · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 12

Eroded rich alluvial land, where floods have exposed the sub-surface soil, is lacking in available plant food, and does not attain proper…

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Inadequate Flood Relief for Share and Tenant Farmers

The Land · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 12

SHARE and tenant farmers on the Central Coast who suffered serious losses in the recent floods are disappointed over the relief grants made available by the Government Flood Relief Committee…

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Flood Loss Heavy In Vineyards

The Land · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 15

AN official survey shows that vignerons suffered heavy losses when the recent Hunter River floods covered…

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Gale Helps Air Record

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 21 August 1949 · page 8

A Convair aircraft set a new Melbourne-Sydney record for two-engined aircraft yesterday by flying the 457 miles in…

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Rescuers Race To Aid Two Ships In Distress In Vicious Atlantic Storm

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 21 August 1949 · page 1

HALIFAX (Canada), August 20 (A.A.P.).—Rescue ships are plunging through mountainous seas toward two ships crippled by a vicious Atlantic storm. The 4,200-ton…

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High ground saves High Jip from flood

The Sun · Sunday 21 August 1949 · page 18

HIGH JIP, winner of the 1948 Breeders' Plate and a possible sprint star this spring, narrowly escaped from drowning in the recent country floods…

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Fight US Plan To Flood New Guinea With Twenty Million Japs

Tribune · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 3

American threats to plant 20,000,000 Japanese in New Guinea, rather than provocative and impossible plans to stop Hongkong returning to China, ought to be the subject of this…

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Four Dead in Turin Cyclone

The Sun · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 2

TURIN, Thursday.--A sudden cyclone swept through Turin yesterday, killing four and injuring 50…

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Heavy Rain Sweeping State Farmers Jubilant At Fall 2 Inches in City Areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 2

HEAVY rain has been sweeping the metropolitan area, coastal districts and the Blue Mountains since last night, and further rain is forecast…

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Heavy Rain Sweeping State Farmers In West Welcome Fall 2 Inches in City Areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 2

HEAVY rain has been sweeping the metropolitan area, coastal districts and the Blue Mountains since last night, and farther rain is forecast…

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Heavy Rain Sweeping State Farmers In West Welcome Fall 2 Inches in City Areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 2

HEAVY rain has been sweeping the metropolitan area, coastal districts and the Blue Mountains since last night, and further rain is forecast…

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Heavy Rain Sweeping State Farmers In West Welcome Fall 2 Inches in City Areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 2

HEAVY rain has been sweeping the metropolitan area, coastal districts and the Blue Mountains since last night, and further rain is forecast…

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Heavy Rain Sweeping State Farmers Are Jubilant Over Fall 2 Inches in City Areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 2

HEAVY rain has been sweeping the metropolitan area, coastal districts and the Blue Mountains since last night, and further rain is forecast…

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Heavy Rain Sweeping State Farmers Are Jubilant Over Fall 2 Inches in City Areas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 2

HEAVY rain has been sweeping the metropolitan area, coastal districts and the Blue Mountains, since last night, and further rain is forecast…

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Planes collide in thunderstorm

The Sun · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 9

FRANKFURT, Thursday.-- Two American Shotting Stars lighters crashed near Munich yesterday after being caught…

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Lounge Room Flooded

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 11

Today's heavy rain brought water cascading into the lounge room and set four-years-old Francis Kelly at work bailing out in his home at 8 Robert St., Camperdown. Candles (right) were alight in the darkened room…

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Four Killed in Turin Cyclone

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 3

ROME, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--A cyclone which swept through Turin yesterday killed four people and injured 50…

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State Benefits From Heavy Rain Same Hooding expected in river areas

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 7

More than 40,000 square miles of eastern New South Wales received rainfalls of up to nearly three inches between Wednesday night and late…

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Floods May Bring Cutworm Infection

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 10

DURING the spring, vegetables and field crops grown on land that was flooded in June may be infested with outworms…

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Floods Damage Cereals And Pastures On Central Rivers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 6

CONSIDERABLE damage was caused to winter cereals, newly sown pastures and lucerne by July floods in the Central Rivers reports the…

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