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Floods & storms, 1950

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey and Curley Some Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 23

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Loss Of Fencing In Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 3

Manufacturers of fencing materials had been asked what they could produce in the next three…

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Scouts die in lake gale

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Wed.-- Four Boy Scouts, each 13 years old, died from exposure on a rubber raft…

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Acquittal of Gestapo Chief Storm Against Neo-nazis

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 2

MUNICH, March (JTA).—A wave of protest has swept Bavaria following last week's acquittal by a German court of the former Gestapo chief of Munich…

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A town that thumbed its nose at a flood

The Sun · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 27

SWIRLING Murrumbidgee floodwaters roared of 20 knots through the south-west town of Hay last week -- but nobody got wet. Hay instead got two miles of brand new road…

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Four mines idle from flooding

The Sun · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 20

Delayed effects of flooding lost output of 2000 tons of coal in southern and western NSW today…

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Flood victim's body found

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 13

CANBERRA, Wed.--Police today recovered the body of Leslie Savage, 45, laborer, of Queanbeyan, missing since…

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Wheat Sowing Delayed By Heavy Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 9

The wheat-sowing season in New South Wales was sure to be delayed, and much seed would have to go into hastily…

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Wheat Belt Deluge May Cut Acreage This Year Seed Bed Preparation Problem

The Land · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 10

SOME country in the wheat belt is so wet that it will not be in a fit condition to cultivate for a considerable time and where rainfall has been excessive a restriction in the area sown to wheat…

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Serious Erosion Follows Heavy Storms Wheat Sowings In N.S.W. Delayed Restricted Areas Expected

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 10

EXCEPTIONAL and continuous rain in recent weeks had resulted in flooding of low-lying country and severe erosion to undulating lands, reported the N.S.W. cereal specialist (Mr. Geo, Nicholson) yesterday. Damage by…

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Floods Cause Serious Loss of Vegetables

The Land · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 31

BECAUSE of floods and adverse, seasonal conditions, vegetable growern throughout the State have suffered heavy losses…

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Floods Stopped Colts From Touring Berry St. George Plans Cancelled at Last Minute

The St George Call · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 4

Continuous heavy rain all day on Thursday and a cloudburst late in the evening, causing severe dislocation to road and rail traffic,…

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Dams To Aid Control Of Flooding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 9

No Government could prevent flooding, but much could be done to reduce losses on the lower…

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The Floods Inland

The Methodist · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 3

Seldom if ever in the history of the State has the country inland been so thoroughly drenched with water as it has been in recent times. Even today enormous areas along the valleys of the…

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Bush Creatures Too Are Flood Sufferers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 2

OVER quite a long period we have been reading about the losses suffered by settlers in the widespread floods, which is a[?]…

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Floods go down--and people go back

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 13

AS floodwaters receded this week on New South Wales rivers, thousands of…

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Old boat is town's transport (Floods cut off roads)

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 12

An old rowboat is the only means of dry transport for the 209 inhabitants of Euabalong, where waters from the flooded Lachlan River are inundating the township. The town yesterday…

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Countless Acres Ravaged As.... Famine, Flood, Drought Hit 40 Million People In China Reds May Buy Grain Overseas

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 16 April 1950 · page 6

HONG KONG, April 15 (A.A.P.Reuter).—China's great famine has swept across 20 million acres and brought suffering to 40 million people since it began last year,…

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Native Warning Ignored; Then Gale Came

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday.—After residents of Coen township, in far northern Queensland, had disregarded the warning of…

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Rescuers Miss Death In Yanco Floodwaters

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 6

LEETON, Tuesday.--Four well-known residents of Yanco had narrow escapes in floodwaters yesterday while taking provisions to farmers isolated on the south side of the river…

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