2000 Flee From Menace of Big Flood at Wagga Two Schools Taken Over
Faced with the threat of the worst flood in the history of Wagga, police, emergency army units and volunteers worked desperately today to evacuate…
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View of Floods From Air
A Daily Mirror reporter who flew over flood areas today saw scores of isolated farms cut off by vast…
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Faced with the threat, of the worst flood in the history of Wagga, police, emergency army, units and volunteers worked desperately today to evacuate…
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Station 2WG Wagga will relay first-hand accounts of the flood situation to 2SM at [?] tonight…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.--One hundred and twenty train passengers, stranded at Bungendore, 20 miles from Canberra last night, were rescued by buses from Goulburr…
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Threatened by rising floodwaters which are expected to engulf parts of yagga today, thousands of people are being evacuated from the city by…
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Faced with the threat of the worst flood in the history of Wagga, police, emergency army units and volunteers worked desperately today to evacuate…
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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 of the city. By this afternoon, the 2000,…
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The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham), who represents wagga in the Legislative Assembly, flew to his electorate this morning…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Rainfalls of up to 3in. are threatening vast areas of the Goulburn Valley, where…
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Threatened by rising floodwaters which are expected to engulf parts of Wagga today, thousands of people are [?]eing evacuated from the city by…
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Station 2WG Wagga will relay first-hand accounts of the flood situation to 2SM at 8.30 tonight…
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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 →Heavy Rain Marred Yass Society's 75th Show
HEAVY rain fell continuously throughout the main day of the 75th, Yass Show last week-end. Not only was the attendance small but a brief fine spell in the morning lost the insurance money for the Society…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Europe was still the storm centre of the world and it would be 10,15 or even 20 years before there would be dangers in the Pacific that might come to Australia, the…
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"HEAVY rains, extending over nearly a week, have drenched more than half of New South Wales and have caused floods, which are still rising, in southern areas on both sides of the Dividing Range…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Biggest Flood Yet, Threatened In Murrumbidgee Area Thousands Evacuated In Wagga; Roads, Railways Cut In S.East
AS this paper went to press, people in areas along the Murrumbidgee River were waiting for one of the biggest floods in their history. Other parts of the South-east corner of N.S.W. were in flood, but in many of these districts the water was already receding…
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This picture, taken yesterday afternoon from a "Herald" aircraft, shows how the rising waters of the Murrumbidgee River threaten the main shopping area of Wagga. Floodwaters are expected to inundate this area within the next 24 hours…
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WAGGA, Thursday.—Wagga residents are working feverishly to meet floodwaters which are expected to cover the major portion of the city by Saturday, afternoon…
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WAGGA, Thursday.—Millions of gallons of water, cascading over the spillway of Burrenjuck Dam, have converted the Murrumbidgee River into a raging torrent, as far as the flooded township of…
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