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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

3,659 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 183

Abos Get Body Through Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 4

DARWIN, Tuesday. — Nine aborigines carried the body of a 15st. man on a paperbark canoe nearly five miles through flood…

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Hot days with storms likely

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 12

The Weather Bureau last night forecast a hot, sultry day for Sydney with thunderstorms late this afternoon…

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Thunderstorm Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Thunderstorms during the day are likely to bring some relief from the warm sultry spell Sydney ha[?]…

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Thunderstorm Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Thunderstorms during the day are likely to bring some relief from the warm, sultry spell Sydney has…

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Thunderstorm Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Thunderstorms during the day are likely to bring some relief from the warm, sultry spell Sydney has…

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Thunderstorm Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Thunderstorms during the day are likely to bring some relief from the warm, sultry spell Sydney has…

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Thunderstorm Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Thunderstorms during the day are likely to bring some relief from the warm, sultry spell Sydney has…

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Thunderstorm Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Thunderstorms during the day are likely to bring some relief from the warm, sultry spell Sydney has…

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Thunderstorm Likely Today

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 2

Thunderstorms during the day are likely to bring some relief from the warm, sultry, spell Sydney has…

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Trade, Finance, Produce, Overseas Markets Broker to His Client Cyclone Co. Wire Fence Makers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 26

Client: You reckoned Cyclone ordinaries were high enough at 60 a couple of years ago, but…

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Farmers' Aid To Flood Victims

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 2

CHAIRMAN of the Macleay River Flood Relief Committee (Mr, D. J. Lancastor) announced this week that…

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Families Take Flood Children

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 3 February 1950 · page 5

TEL AVIV (JTA): Answering the Jewish Agency’s special appeal for temporary accommodation of flood-stricken immigrant…

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Storm Damage in Europe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Feb. 3 (A.A.P.). —Raging storms sweeping Britain throughout the night have caused traffic diversions,…

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Floods Hit S. Australia

The Sun · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Saturday. -- A strip of territory covering 120 miles on Central Australian railway is completely…

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Floods Cut Food to S. Aust. Towns

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 February 1950 · page 11

ADELAIDE, Fri.--Some towns in the far north of South Australia are short of food because floods have caused a serious rail hold-up…

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Railway towns isolated by floods ADELAIDE

The Sun · Sunday 5 February 1950 · page 7

SIX towns on the Central Australian railway line have been cut off by floods…

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Heavy rain likely to continue

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 7

Heavy rain which drenched most of New South Wales at the weekend is likely…

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Heavy Rain Soaks Southern N.S.W.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 1

Soaking rain fell over the southern half of the State yesterday. Many towns report falls of three inches during the week-end. At noon the Weather…

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Doctor's car strikes boys in heavy rain

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 2

Two schoolboys, knocked down by a doctor's car in Cabramatta early today, are in Parramatta Hospital, one in a serious condition. The boys ran across…

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Warning of river floods

The Sun · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 3

Weather Bureau officials this afternoon issued a flood warning-. They said rises can be…

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