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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The body of Lyle Terrance Jamieson (36), flood victim, has been recovered in a free, 15 miles from where he was drowned yesterday. Jamieson, a grazier, of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Canberra had a complete power breakdown as a result of heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →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…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →More rain has fallen in the already flooded Goulburn Valley in Victoria. More than 300,000 acres of the valley are under water. This picture shows an isolated farmhouse near Murchison…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy and almost continuous rain for the past six days threatens the south-east corner of New South Wales with the severest flooding for 25 years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reports of flooding were received from many parts of the south-east last night. It is feared that rivers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six thousand people were evacuated from North Wagga this morning, as a huge flood moved down the Murrumbidgee River and threatened to submerge the entire town. An eight-foot wall of water is pouring oyer Burrinjuck Dam…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The State Government's flood relief committee will meet almost continuously today to hear reports from the flooded area at Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CANBERRA, Thursday.--Three trains on the Goulburn-Canberra line were isolated last night when floodwaters washed out the permanent way. The afternoon express from Canberra to Sydney was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The river at Wyuna reached its peak this morning and flood danger in Victoria's Goulburn Valley is believed…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →One hundred passengers on the train which left Canberra for Sydney yesterday afternoon were stranded last night at Bungendore, 30 miles from Canberra. Washaways on the line…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floodwaters pouring down the Murrumbidgee and Tumut Rivers yesterday forced hundreds of families from their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Burrinjuck Dam, photographed from a Daily Mirror plane today, showing a cloud of spray over the vast volume of water racing over the spillway. Depth of the overflow, 6ft. 9in., is the greatest since 1925…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Rainfalls of up to 3in. are threatening vast areas of the Goulburn Valley, where…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Thursday.--One hundred and twenty train passengers, stranded at Bungendore, 20 miles from Canberra last night, were rescued by buses from Goulburn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham), who represents wagga in the Legislative Assembly, flew to his electrorate, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Faced with the threat of the worst flood in the history of Wagga, police, emergency army units and volunteers worked desperately today to evacuate 2000 people before Murrumbidgee Waters engulfed parts off the city. By this afternoon, the 2000,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The northern outskirts of Wagga, on the north bank of the Murrumbidgee, under water today. Floods are approaching the city itself. Countless head of stock are marooned on near-inundated properties outside Wagga. Gundagai railway station,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Station 2WG Wagga will relay first-hand accounts of the flood situation to 2SM at 8.30 tonight…
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