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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

3,659 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 183

Four-river Flood Warnings

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 7

Sydney Weather Bureau last night issued flood warnings to towns along the Shoalhaven, Clyde,…

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Floods Stop Coal Output

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 22

Vale of Clwydd Colliery Ltd. suspended production on April 17 because of the flooding of the main haulage road…

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11 Die in Sudden U.s. Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- Eleven people, including two children were drowned and seven are missing in a "flash" flood at Lincoln (Nebraska) yesterday. A "flash" flood occurs when…

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11 Die in Sudden U.s. Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- Eleven people, including two children, were drowned and seven are missing in a ''flash" flood at Lincoln (Nebraska) yesterday. A "flash" flood occurs when…

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11 Die in Sudden U.s. Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- Eleven people, including two children, were drowned and seven are missing in a "flask" flood at Lincoln (Nebraska) yesterday. A "flash" flood occurs when…

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12 Die in Sudden U.s. Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- Two children were swept from their parent' arms, four others were drowned and six people are missing in a "flash" flood at Lincoln (Nebraska) yesterday. A "flash" flood occurs when…

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12 Die in Sudden U.s. Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- Two children were swept from their parents' arms, four others were drowned and six people are missing in a "flash" flood at Lincoln (Nebraska) yesterday. A "flash" flood occurs when…

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Launch Party Safe in Storm

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Deal Island mailboat, with two women,four children and two fishermen aboard, is storm…

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Launch Party Safe in Storm

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Deal Island mailboat, with two women, four, children and two fishermen aboard, is storm…

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Boy Swept Through Pipe Line. During Rain Storm at Bexley

The Propeller · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 1

Last Friday afternoon Rex Nairn, son of Alderman C. Nairn, of Rockdale Council, and a resident of Kingsgrove…

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19 Killed, Thousands Homeless In Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, May 10 (A.A.P.).—Nineteen people have died, 12 are missing and many thousands are homeless in the floods which are sweeping over north Dakota, Minnestota and…

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Flood of Beans in City Markets

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 3

Beans continued to flood the Markets this morning, when more than 2350 bags arrived. These, with the 381 bags…

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Flood of Beans in City Markets

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 3

Beans continued to flood the Markets this morning, when more than 2350 bags arrived. These, with the 381 bags…

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The Storm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 16

The day was het and dreary When clouds cams in the west, The flowers nodded their pretty heads And the birds flew to their nesis…

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Wally and the Major After the storm

The Sun · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 25

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Despite Flood Damage, Dubbo Put On Splendid 3-Day Show

The Land · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 20

DESPITE heavy flood damage, and at considerable inconvenience, Dubbo district farmers assisted in making Dubbo's three-day show last week a Successful exhibition. It was Dubbo Show Society's 78th…

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Floods Sweep Vegetables, Lucerne Away

The Land · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 7

FLOOD damage along the Belubula River lucerne flats would probably cause a shortage of lucerne chaff and…

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Crop Losses From Floods

The Land · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 24

THE recent Murrumbidgee floods which swept farms in the Yanco and Narrandera areas, may result in complete loss o[?] many [?]ice and vegetable crops,…

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Smaller Wheat Sowing Likely After Flood Rains

The Land · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 9

THE area sown to wheat in N.S.W. this year would probably fall short of that originally intended to be put under crop because of flooding, weeds, erosion, and cultivation difficulties…

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F.S.A. Branch News and Notes F.S.A. Calls Public Meeting on Flood Loss Compensation, Cut In Duty, Insurance Urged

The Land · Friday 12 May 1950 · page 12

A PUBLIC meeting, which Dubbo F.S.A. called to consider means of providing relief for victims of the recent disastrous floods, made these decisions: [?] Federal and State…

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