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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

3,659 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 183

Plane Drops Food in Flooded Area Bus Party Marooned

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

The State-wide floods took ca dramatic turn today when emergency food rations were dropped from d plane to 41 tourist feus passengers and two…

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Rescued Off Table in River Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 6

A police rescue party in a boat in floodbound Glen Davis yesterday found John Bennett, his wife…

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Plane Drops Food in Flooded Area Bus Party Marooned

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

The State-wide floods took a dramatic turn today when emergency food rations were dropped from a plane to 41 tourist bus passengers and two…

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Plane Drops Food in Flooded Area Bus Party Marooned

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

The State-wide floods took a dramatic turn today when emergen food rations Were drppped froni a plane to 41 tourist biis passengers and two…

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Rescued Off Table in River Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 6

A police rescue party in a boat in floodbound Glen Davis yesterday found John Bennett, his wife…

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Plane Drops Food in Flooded Area Boys' Band Marooned

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

The State-wide floods took a dramatic turn today when emergency good rations were dropped from a plane a 41 tourists bus passengers and two…

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Plane Drops Food in Flooded Area Bus Party Marooned

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

The State-wide floods took a dramatic tarn today when emergency food rations were dropped from a plane to 41 tourist has passengers and two…

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Plane Drops Food in Flooded Area Boys' Band Marooned

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

The State-wide floods took a dramatic turn today when emergency food rations were dropped from a plane to 41 tourist bus passengers and two…

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Passenger dies, ship in storm

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- A woman passenger died after a heart attack early…

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Glen Davis Floods Cut Town in Two, Isolated Many People

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

LEFT: The oil refineries at Glen Davis, showing floodwaters surrounding the oil tanks. RIGHT: Pushing a car through three feet of swirling floodwaters on the Capertee Road, leading into Glen Davis…

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Migrant Swam To Work During Glen Davis Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

Glen Davis shale oil miners and their families spent yesterday digging out their damaged and wrecked homes from the silt left by Monday's flood. The floodwaters had…

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Floods Blow to Output Petrol And Coal Hit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 3

The wont flood in the history of the shale oil town of Glen Davis is now receding, but it has stopped the production of oil for at least a fortnight…

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Property Lost in Sth. Coast Flood

The Sun · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 15

In one of the most destructive floods in the history of the South Coast, towns from Moruya to Genoa, just over the Victorian border, are isolated. Bega police last night…

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2 children die in floodwater Drowned in Creek, Lake Near Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 5

Two little girls drowned in floodwaters near their homes yesterday. One drowned in four feet of wafer near Windsor, in a creek swollen by heavy rain,…

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Cat's cruise through flood

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 5

GLEN DAVIS, Tues.--A black cat rode half a mile through Glen Davis yesterday on a telephone box…

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People out of homes: flood fear

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 1

Police moved some East Maitland families last night when floodwater entered…

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We can stop these floods which cost us millions

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 8

THE Capertee River, which burst its banks last Monday, swamped the…

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Flood Fears on South Coast Trail Of Ruin Over Wide Area Of State

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 5

Hundreds of flood victims in Glen Davis, least Maitland and other areas began a pathetic trek back to their damaged homes today, whew the flood…

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Flood Fears on South Coast Trail Of Ruin Over Wide Area Of State

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 5

Hundreds of flood victims in Glen Davis, East Maitland and other areas began a pathetic trek back to their damaged homes today, when the flood…

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Flood Fears on South Coast Trail Of Ruin Over Wide Area Of State

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 5

Hundreds of flood victims in Glen Davis, East Maitland and other areas began a pathetic trek back to their damaged homes today, when the flood…

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