Farmer Pulls Constable And Dog From Floods
MELBOURNE, Thursday. —Mr. Nelson Northrope, an Orbost farmer, to-day rescued a policeman and a sheepdog…
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The Lessons Of The Floods
It is an ironic feature of the pastoral industry in the eastern States that the good rains which mean flush seasons so often…
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AT TOP: The roadway from the Canberra District Hospital, which leads to the Civic Centre, Canberra, covered by floodwaters from the Molonglo River. LOWER: Gundagai, showing how the swollen Murrumbidgee River has covered the lower section of the town. These pictures were taken yesterday afternoon from a special "Herald" plane…
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This Wagga shopkeeper walled up the front of his store as protection against the floodwaters of the Murrumbidgee River which are expected to flood the city…
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Drastic water restrictions have been imposed in Young as an ironical result of floods in southeastern New South Wales. Flood debris has blocked the pump intake of…
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Although no appeal for flood relief in the Wagga district has been made to Red Cross headquarters, the flood relief…
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WAGGA, Friday--This flood-bound town of 20,000 people is in a state of near-panic today ds the muddy-brown water creeps inexorably up into houses, shops and business premises. Dozens of people, suddenly cut…
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Murrumbidgee at Wagga sea nearly 33ft 2in and [?]ll rising slowly. About 50 [?]ple still stranded in house…
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THE MAIN STREET in Wagga taken from a high verandah as flood waters creep into the shops and business premises. The flood is already four feet deep in parts of the street. WAIST-DEEP IN WATER, families move out from a house in Tarcutta Road, Wagga, carrying furniture. Hundreds…
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WAGGA, Thurs. -- The steadily rising Murrumbidgee River has forced 1000 Wagga residents from their homes and another 5000 may have to leave before morning…
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A Daily Telegraph reporter who flew over the Burrinjuck Dam and the flooded Murrumbidgee River yesterday saw a vast moss of water moving towards the threatened town of Wagga. As the plane flew through…
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TORRENT of water pouring through the spillways of Burrinjuck Dam yesterday. Spray rose 150 feet. THE MURRUMBIDGEE sprawling over its banks in North Wagga yesterday. Pictures from Daily Telegraph plane…
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Floodwaters at Wagga continued to rise early today and flowed into the heart of the town. Many homes were flooded…
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Disaster threatens Wagga as the flooded Murrumbidgee continues to rise, and residents are keeping an anxious vigil. Already hundreds of homes in North Wagga have up to six feet of water in them. Several families, cut off by a sudden rise of water, have climbed to rooftops and are shouting and waving…
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With the Murrumbidgee slowly rising to a new record, families stranded in flooded areas are inundating the already overworked police with pathetic calls. As the police boats fight their…
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Arrangements have been made by Station 2SM and Station 2WG, Wagga, to keep Sydney listeners informed on…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Snowy River is in record flood and the town of Orbost is isolated…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Snowy River is in record flood and the town of Orbost is isolated…
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Arrangements have been made by Station 2SM and Station 2WG, Wagga, to keep Sydney listeners informed on…
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Disaster threatens Wagga as the flooded Murrumbidgee continues to rise, and residents are keeping an anxious vigil. Already hundreds of homes in North Wagga have up to six feet of water in them. The peak of the flood is not expected in Wagga for another 18 hours…
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