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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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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 wafer, have climbed to rooftops and are shouting and waving…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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 way through waters racing at more than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arrangements have been made by Station 2SM and Station 2WG, Wagga, to keep Sydney listeners informed, on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Snowy River is in record flood and the town of Orbost is isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Snowy River is in record flood and the town of Orbost is isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Arrangements have been made by Station 2SM and Station 2WG, Wagga, to keep Sydney listeners informed on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disaster threatens Wagga as the flooded Murrumbidgee continues to rise, and residents are keeping an anxious vigil. Already hundreds of homes in North waggas 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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With at least a third of Wagga under water and 3,000 homeless, the flooded Murrumbidgee was still rising last night. It was expected to rise…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WAGGA, Friday.— People ih the Docker and Bolton Streets area of North Wagga banged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Premier, Mr. McGirr, said yesterday that funds were available for flood victims. Mr. McGirr said he had approached the prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, asking for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Friday.— Floodwaters in north-east Victoria began to recede to-day, leaving a trail of damage to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TRAVELLING in Wagga's flooded streets is not easy without a boat. The three men (above) managed to get out of the flooded town by horse and sulky, while the less fortunate ones (below) had to swim and wade against the fast-moving current…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WAGGA, Saturday. -- The flooded Murrumbidgee River last night inched up to 33ft. 3in., passing the 1925 record level. By this morning it dropped again to 33ft, but police have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- An island in the middle of the Snowy River at Orbost has been moved about 400 yards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narrandera police said last night they expected floodwaters coming down the Murrumbidgee River from Wagga to flood parts of Narrandera…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Government would make available immediately whatever money was urgently necessary for food, blankets, or other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WASHING: Using an old aircraft fuel tank as a raft, Jim Ryan, Doreen McKenzie, and Marie Halls hung out their washing in the yard of a Wagga hotel yesterday. ROAD: The partly submerged bridge on the main road to Sydney from Wagga. RAIL: Though menaced by rising floodwater, this rail bridge at Wagga was still…
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