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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 109

Families Homeless in Flood Terror Wide Havoc Along Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of families--many of them homeless-spent a weekend of flood terror as torrential rains and hurricanes lashed the…

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Families Homeless in Floods Peril Wide Havoc Along Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of families--many of them homeless--spent a weekend of flood peril as torrential rains and hurricanes lashed the…

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Families Homeless in Floods Peril Wide Havoc Along Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of families--many of them homeless--spent a weekend of flood peril as torrential trains and hurricanes lashed the…

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Families Homeless in Flood Terror Wide Havoc Along Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of families--many of them homeless-spent a weekend of flood terror as torrential rains and hurricanes lashed the…

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Families Homeless in Floods Peril Wide Havoc Along Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of families--many of them homeless--spent a weekend of flood peril as torrential rains and hurricanes lashed the…

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Families Homeless in Floods Peril Wide Havoc Along Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of families--many of them homeless--spent a weekend of flood peril as torrential rains and hurricanes lashed the…

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Families Homeless in Floods Peril Wide Havoc Along Coast

Daily Mirror · Monday 16 June 1952 · page 1

Hundreds of families--many of them homeless--spent a weekend of flood peril as torrential rains and hurricanes lashed the…

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Big Gale Delay to Shipping

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

Gales off the southern N.S.W. coast have delayed shipping up to 48 hours…

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Ketch rode out storm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

Three men who disappeared in a 40ft. ketch before a storm struck Byron Bay on Saturday morning…

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Ship's 3-Day Battle With Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 4

After fighting a storm between Noumea and Sydney for three days, the small French motor…

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Ship's 3-Day Battle With Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 4

After fighting a storm between Noumea and Sydney for three days, the small French motor…

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Interstate Trucks Taken in Tow As Camden Floodwaters Subside

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 1

Freighter trucks from Victoria being towed across to the Sydney side of Camden Bridge as floodwaters began to subside yesterday. The trucks in the picture are part of a queue waiting to make the crossing…

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(From page 1) More Flooding in Country Forecast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

The Weather Bureau said last night that it expects flooding along the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers and the NepeanHawkesbury system. A Weather Bureau official…

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Flood-bound A.L.P. Men Miss Talks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday.—The N.S.W. delegates to the meeting of the Federal executive are floodbound at Limerick, near Crookwell—80 miles from…

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Floodwaters rolling over wide areas Boat Trip to Save Sick Child Floating timber endangers party

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

Windsor police yesterday took a nine-years-old girl suffering from acute appendicitis four miles by boat through floodwaters to Windsor Hospital…

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Floods Strand A.l.p. Officials

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

CANBERRA, Mon.--Floods today prevented the president (Mr. J. Ferguson) and two members from attending an A.L.P. Federal Executive…

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Big Floods Feared in 2 RIVERS Threat to four towns

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 1

Serious floods are developing on the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan Rivers. Experts fear the floods will he as bad as those of 1950 which made hundreds of people homeless…

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Man Lost in Vic. Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.--A man drowned today when a "flying fox" crashed into the…

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Highways blocked by floods

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 3

The Main Roads Department yesterday reported damage to many…

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Tracks Flooded

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 17 June 1952 · page 24

MELBOURNE, Tues. --Horses preparing for Saturday's face meeting at Caulfield had to…

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