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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

3,659 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 183

Flooded Rivers Claim Two Victims Central West Now Menaced

Truth · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 2

A soldier was drowned yesterday in the rain-swollen George's River at Casula. In south-west N.S.W., near Jerilderie, a station hand is believed to…

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Pig Entrants Please the Judges Champion Boar Delayed By Flood At Wagga

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 8

Kinilibah Master Stroke owned by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. E. H. Graham, won the Berkshire boar championship yesterday—but only by good luck…

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Army Man Tried to Swim River Two Drown in N.s.w. Floodwater

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 1

A 25-year-old man attending the Casula School of Military Engineering was drowned in the flooded George's River yesterday afternoon…

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Flood Has A Golden Lining

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 3

BATHURST, Sunday. —Flood rains in the Sofala district have uncovered gold, and a…

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New flood danger to Dubbo, Wellington

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 2

Heavy rain yesterday swelled floodwaters sweeping down the Macquarie, Murrumbidgee, and Bell Rivers threatening Wellington and Dubbo with…

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Bedraggled thousands flee Showground in heavy rain

The Sun · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 3

Thousands of drenched, bedraggled visitors fled the Showground as heavy rain pelted down about 3 o'clock today. Parents shielded themselves and their babies with…

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Big Crowd Storms Wharf After Wait For Maltese

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 3

More than 1,500 people outside the wharf at 13 Pyrmont yesterday afternoon burst through the wharf gate, sweeping aside two policemen who tried to stop them…

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Anxiety Over War Minister Secrets Storm Attlee Asked Opinion

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- The Prime Minister (Mr. Attlee) will be questioned in the House of Commons…

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Floodwaters Surging on Towns Growing Peril In Central Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 1

Floodwaters surging down from the upper reaches of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers threaten towns in Central New South Wales with the worst flooding in their history…

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Grim air picture of flooded N.S.W.

The Sun · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 1

South-west NSW from the air today is a grim picture of sprawling rivers and yellow spilling over roads and pastures. ANA planes through Wagga,…

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Dubbo Flood Peril Roads cut; rescues by police

The Sun · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 1

Facing the worst flood in its history, Dubbo today is completely isolated by the rapidly-rising Macquarie River…

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Floods may prevent NZ Rangers reaching Yarralumla

The Sun · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 23

UNLESS the flood waters near Canberra drop four feet, the four New Zealand Land Rangers who arrived in the Wanganella this morning will be unable to reach Yarralumla for the Interstate Rangers Camp…

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Flood May Upset G.p.s. Race Plans

The Sun · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 35

The GPS Head of the River title, set down for April 15, will be postponed a week unless the Nepean River returns to normal level foy tomorrow week…

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Immediate grant of £40,000 for relief of flood victims

The Sun · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 7

An immediate grant of £40,000 from the Commonwealth and State Governments is expected to be recommended by the Flood Relief Committee today. This will be on the basis…

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Inland Rivers Rise Again 3 towns flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 1

The rain-swollen Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers last night began to flood central- western towns…

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Crowd sees men go to death in flood

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 7

WELLINGTON, Sun.--Two men were drowned in the flooded Bell River of Wellington last night. Townspeople last night…

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£40,000 Flood Aid Suggested

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 3

It is expected that the State Government's Flood Relief Committee will recommend that the State…

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Floods Cause Food Shortage

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday.-- The food position in several South and Central Western Queensland townships is becoming…

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Floods Increase Vegetable Prices

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 5

Higher vegetable and fruit prices and serious shortages from the disastrous flood damage to crops in N.S.W. were predicted today by growers. The president of the…

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Floods Result in Mine Losses

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 5

Although disputes are at a minimum in N.S.W. mines today, floods and wash- aways have caused heavy…

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