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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 109

Migrants Flee From Flood Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 2

Trucks were used to evacuate migrants camped on the banks of the Snowy River near…

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2 Flood Refugees; One's Quite Happy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 3

Two of the youngest flood refugees—Beverly Clarke (5) and her baby lamb-- pictured at St. John's Parish Hall, Forbes. Beverly feeds her pet from a requisitioned tomato sauce bottle. They sheltered in the hall when flood waters rose to 8in. in the kitchen of their home in Templar St. near Lachlan Lagoon…

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2 Flood Refugees; One's Quite Happy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 3

Two of the youngest flood refugees—Beverly Clarke (5) and her baby lamb- pictured at St. John's Parish. Hall, Forbes. Beverly feeds her pet from a requisitioned tomato sauce' bottle. They -sheltered in the hall when flood waters rose to Bin. in the kitchen of their home in Templar St., near Lachlan Lagoon…

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Migrants Flee From Flood Area

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 2

Trucks were used to evacuate migrants camped on the banks of the Snowy River near…

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2 Flood Refugees; One's Quite Happy

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 3

Two of the youngest flood refugees—Beverly Clarke (5) and her baby lamb— pictured at St. John's Parish Hall, Forbes. Beverly feeds her pet from a requisitioned tomato sauce bottle. They sheltered in the hall when flood waters rose to Bin. in the kitchen of their home in Templar St., near Lachlan Lagoon…

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Robin Slessor's Reviews Storm Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 June 1952 · page 35

IT'S ABOUT: Machinations of Ku-Klux Klanners. YOU'LL SEE: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Steve Cochran…

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Union Yelling Raised A Storm

Truth · Sunday 8 June 1952 · page 20

Dervish yells and Red Indian war-whoops cost Rindwick Rugby Union team victory in a tense 14-all drawn match with University at Coogee Oval yesterday. A ruling that the yells…

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Flood Cuts Off 6,000 Rugby Crowd

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 8 June 1952 · page 3

GUNDAGAI, Saturday —Six thousand spectators found themselves marooned at Anzac Park to-day after…

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Six families evacuated from floods

The Sun · Sunday 8 June 1952 · page 44

POLICE evacuated six families from the banks of the swollen Murrumbidgee at…

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Floods trap 6000 football fans

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 June 1952 · page 1

Rising floodwaters from the Tumut and Murrumbidgee rivers late yesterday trapped 6000 football fans inside Gundagai Oval. Police drove trucks…

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Four dead in U.S. storms

The Sun · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday.-- Violent summer storms struck in the Mid-West and East today, killing at…

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Flood Danger Easing Crops On Flats Ruined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 3

More than 100,000 acres of the best farm land in New South Wales are still under water west of Forbes, farmers and businessmen in the area said last night…

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5 Chinese Stay Put in Floods

The Sun · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 5

Five Chinese marooned by flood-waters at Narrandera refuse to be evacuated and police may have to use force to get them to safety…

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Floods May Bar Jumpers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Sun --"Bushfire" geldings Faiz Effendi and Fin[?]entigue will try…

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Town faces flood peril

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 7

Floodwaters from the swollen Lachlan River are expected to reach Condobolin, in…

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Through Floods For Win

Daily Mirror · Monday 9 June 1952 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- A daring drive through flooded country from Wodonga to…

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Ship's fight with gale

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 3

A 40-miles-an-hour headwind delayed the trans - Tasman liner Wanganella (9876…

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Storm blacks out New York

The Sun · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 20

NEW YORK, Monday. --When a, thunderstorm hit New York today with wind at 84 mph. tens of…

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Desperate bid to beat flood

The Sun · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 5

Nearly 200 mien will work all tonight building a huge levee to save the small township of Darlington Point from the flooded Murrumbidgee…

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Floods Cut Off Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 5

Floodwaters from the Murrumbidgee River last night hod surrounded houses at Narrandera…

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