Desperate all-out battle to hold back Warren flood Water, water everywhere
The Sun · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 3
Men and women are joined in a desperate fight today to hold back the Macquarie River flood which threatens to engulf Warren (population 1800) and Ravenwood (population 700). Little hope is held that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FLOODS 12 Feet Deep in Town River pouring in for 10 hours
The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 7
Floodwaters from the Lachlan yesterday swamped Forbes with up to 12ft. of water in less than 10 hours. Police used two Army amphibious "ducks" to rescue…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Menace Decreases At Many Towns In Central N.S.W. Drop In Level Of Water
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 4
Flood danger fo many central N.S.W. towns was averted early this morning when floodwaters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Threat Eases In Vic
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Torrential rains which caused floods in southern and eastern Victoria have passed now,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floodwater Easing Off
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 9
Flood dagger fo many central N.S.W. towns was averted early this morning when floodwaters began to gradually recede…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Floodwater Easing Off
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 9
Flood danger to many central N.S.W. towns was averted early this morning when floodwaters. began to gradually recede…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Floodwater Easing Off
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 9
Flood dagger to many central N.S.W. towns was averted early this morning when floodwaters began to gradually recede…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Threat Eases In Vic
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Torrential rains which caused floods in southern and eastern Victoria have passed now,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floodwater Easing Off
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 9
Flood danger fro many central N.S.W. towns was averted early this morning when floodwaters began to gradually recede…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Floodwater Easing Off
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 9
Flood danger to many central N.S.W. towns was averted early this morning when floodwaters began to gradually recede…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Menace Decreases At Many Towns In Central N.S.W. Drop In Level Of Water
Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 April 1950 · page 4
Flood danger to many central N.S.W. towns was averted early this morning when floodwaters…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Muddy Creek Storm-water Channel Proposed Local Rate
The Propeller · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 3
With regard to the proposal of the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board to impose a local…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murrumbidgee Floods "Wash Out" Most Clydesdale Classes
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 10
AS a result of the Murrumbidgee floods around Narrandera, there was only one Clydesdale stallion before the judge, Mr. W. J. Dawkins, Gawler River (S.A.)…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Preventing Floods Mr. Wheeler Approaches Federal Government
Nepean Times · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 2
"This looks like a critical year for floods along the Hawkesbury," Mr. Roy Wheelers M.H.R., states. "It is an ominous sign when summer ends…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fall to Death Flood Parts Bridge
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A woman fell to her death in the swirling waters of the flooded Avon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coonamble Hit by Floods Rescue Work By Police
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 1
Police at Coonamble were last night trying to rescue three persons endangered by the flooded Castlereagh River…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Disasters in China
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 3
HONG KONG, April 5 (A.A.P.-Reuter).— Floods caused by the springtime thaw are bringing new disasters to famine-stricken Central China, according to the latest reports reaching Hong Kong…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Waist- deep flood rescues at Forbes
The Sun · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 5
ABOVE: Despite their anxious moments, Mrs. Bill Dean and Mrs. K. Clarke, manage to smile as their…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warren hopes to win long battle with flood
The Sun · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 7
Exhausted after a non-stop 60-hour battle, the men and women of Warren (363 miles from Sydney) hope to hold back the Macquarie River flood which threatens to submerge the township…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Men Work All Night on Levee Long fight against rising floodwaters
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 7
Four hundred men worked in relays throughout last night building a levee around the town of Warren in an effort to keep out rising floodwaters…
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