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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

3,659 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 183

Floods and Commandeering Of Food Causing Famine Millions Face Starvation in Red China

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1950 · page 3

HONGKONG, Tuesday.--Nearly 8,000,000 Chinese on the mainland are starving because of famine, say travellers arriving in Hongkong. They tell ghastly stories of suffering…

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Flood in Vic Envelops Village Police Aiding Evacuation Of Dwellings

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The village of 'Wyuna (population 300), on the bonks of the Goulburn River, is being inundated deliberately today to…

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Floods and Commandeering Of Food Causing Famine Millions Face Starvation in Red China

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1950 · page 3

HONGKONG, Tuesday.--Nearly 8,000,000 Chinese on the mainland are starving because of famine, say travellers arriving in Hongkong. They tell ghastly stories of suffering…

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Canberra Area Floods Recede

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--With the Molonglo River down to 8ft. early this morning and falling steadily, floods in the Canberra…

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Storm shock cause of surfer's death

The Sun · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 1

Ronald Chapman, 20, of Cambridge Street, Penshurst, died in the water at North Cronulla during a…

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Poster Girl's Boss Bows To Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.--The words All this-- end Blackpool, too," which practically drape the shoulders of shapely Australian girl Wendy Tibbett (26) as represented on a holiday camp poster, will…

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Poster Girl's Boss Bows To Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.--The words All this-- and Blackpool, too," which practically drape the shoulders of shapely Australian girl Wendy Tibbett (26) as represented on a holiday camp poster, will…

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Poster Girl's Boss Bows To Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.--The words "All this-- and Blackpool, too," which practically drape the shoulders of shapely Australian girl Wendy Tibbett (26) as represented on a holiday camp poster, will…

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Poster Girl's 'Boss Moms To Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.--The words "All this-- and Blackpool, too," which practically drape the shoulders of shapely Australian girl Wendy Tibbett (26) as represented on a holiday camp poster, will…

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Poster Girl's Boss Bows To Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.--The words "All this-- and Blackpool, too," which practically drape the shoulders of shapely Australian girl Wendy Tibbett (26) as represented on a holiday camp poster, will…

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Poster Girl's Boss Bows To Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.--The words All this -- and Blackpool, too," which practically drape the shoulders of shapely Australian girl Wendy Tibbett (26) as represented on a holiday camp poster, will…

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Poster Girl's Boss Bows To Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday.--Thte words "AH this-- and Blackpool, too," which practically drape the shoulders of shapely Australian girl Wendy Tibbett (26) as represented on a holiday camp poster, will…

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Poster Girl's Boss Bows To Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday.--The words "All this-- and Blackpool, too," which practically drape the shoulders of shapely Australian girl Wendy Tibbett (26) as represented on a holiday camp poster, will…

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Fears of Flood River Levee Weaker

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The skill of engineers of the State Rivers and Water Supply…

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Goulburn Volley flood damage may exceed £1,000,000

The Sun · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Flood damage in the Gouluburn Valley may exceed £1,000,000. Crop and stock losses alone…

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Flood threat to suburb in Canberra

The Sun · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 23

CANBERRA, Wednesday. --Residents of the Causeway are preparing to evacuate their homes as…

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Pastures go under huge wave Stand-to in Flood Area

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tues.--One thousand people in the Wyuna district, 20 miles from Shepparton, stood by to evacuate their homes today when Water Trust…

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Anxious Hundreds Watch As Flood Menaces Wagga

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 9

WAGGA, Wednesday.--Wagga people are flocking to the Murrumbidgee River in hundreds anxiously watching for the first sign of if breaking its banks. Following heavy rainfall…

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Anxious Hundreds Watch As Flood Menaces Wagga

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 9

WAGGA, Wednesday.-- Wagga people are flocking to the Murrumbidgee River in hundreds anxiously watching for the first sign of it breaking its banks. Following heavy rainfall…

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Anxious Hundreds Watch As Flood Menaces Wagga

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 9

WAGGA, Wednesday.--Wagga people are flocking to the Murrumbidgee River in hundreds anxiously watching for the first sign of it breaking its banks. Following heavy rainfall…

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