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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

1,485 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 75

Hit by Storm By a Special Correspondent Aboard the Leda

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 4

AT SEA, Monday.—The yachts are heading through a storm to-night. The Leda sighted the Sydney…

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Flood Relief

The Sun · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 2

NSW Flood Relief Fund Committee, under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor (Aid. E. C. O'Dea) today made…

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£6,400 To Help Flood Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 4

The management committee of the N.S.W. Flood Victims' Relief Fund yesterday approved grants…

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Flooded Rail Line Re-opens

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 12

The section of the Brewarrina branch line recently closed by flood waters would re-open today, the Secretary for…

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Yacht Skipper Went Looking for a Storm

The Sun · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 9

The big cutter, Tara, which was third across the line in the Auckland-Sydney yacht race, found winds so light that…

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Wiped Out by Hail Storm Urban Rating Discussed

The Biz · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 12

At least two market gardeners at Horsley had been washed out by the recent [?]sastious hailstorms, their tomato craps having been ruined. The men had been…

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Leda Skipper's Own Story... Tasman Race Was Battle With Storms And Calms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 2

THE nine of us who crewed the 54ft yacht, Leda, from the New Zealand port of Tauranga will never forget…

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Government Wins Meat Storm Vote

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--By 306 votes to 298, the British Government last night survived a no-confidence motion on the meak ration. Opening the debate, Captain…

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Government Wins Meat Storm Vote

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Friday,--By 306 votes to 298, the British Government last night survived a no- confidence motion on the meat ration. Replying to the Conservative…

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Government Wins Meat Storm Vote

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.-- By 306 votes to 298, the British Government last night survived a no-confidence motion oh the meat ration. Replying to the Conservative…

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Government Wins Vote Meat Storm Vote

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. --By 306 votes to 298, the British Government last night survived a no-confidence motion on the meat[?]ation. Opening the debate, Captain…

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Uk. Meat Ration Storm Government Survives New Attack

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.--By 386 votes to 298, tine British Government last night survived its second no - confidence motion of the week, this time on the…

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U.K. Meat Ration Storm Government Survives New Attack

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

L0ND0N, Friday.-- By 306 votes fo 298, the British Government Bast night survived its second no - confidence motion of the week, this time on the…

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U.K. Meat Ration Storm Government Survives New Attack

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 5

LONDON, Friday-- By 306 votes to 298, the British Government last night survived its second no - confidence motion of the week, this time on the…

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Flooded Box Is Inured to Western Conditions

The Land · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 17

This tree, known, too, as the Black Box or River Black Box (E. bicolour) has an amazingly wide distribution over the districts of the west. In many an area through which the Paroo, Darling and…

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Farmers In Oft-Flooded Hunter Valley Need Aid

The Land · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 25

UNLESS Hunter Valley farmers, whose farms had been flooded many times in the past 18 months, got substantial assistance, many more of them would have to walk off their properties…

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Floods Cause Big Drop In Lucerne Hay Production

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 2

ACCORDING to the Young district agronomist (Mr. Hall), lucerne hay production on the Belubula and Lachian…

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Flood Relief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1951 · page 2

Sir,—On behalf of some sorelytried constituents of mine along the Hawkesbury River I wish to thank those many people who…

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Floods Drive Farmers Off Land

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 11 February 1951 · page 2

NOT all of Australia's farmers are driving around in new cars. There's Jack Pye, for instance. Jack Pye, 34, and single, of Cornwallis Road, Windsor, can tell a story the Sydney housewife—worried by the ever-ris…

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Miners taking work from pensioners Strikers flood berry-picking industry

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 February 1951 · page 7

LITHGOW, Sat.--Old age and invalid pensioners fear that striking coalminers will oust them from blackberry and pea-picking work near the coalfields. The pensioners in the…

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