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Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 109

Wagga Cut by Floodwater Forbes People Flee To Hills

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 5

Three thousand homeless people huddled miserably among heaps of personal belongings in temporary shelters as raging floodwaters from the Murrumbidgee cut Wagga in halves early this…

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Stop Press £20,000 Flood Grant by State Government

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 32

The Premier (Mr. [?]) [?] today that the state government had made a grant on £20,000 for flood [?]…

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Flood Cuts Wagga City in Half

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 1

Three thousand homeless people huddled miserably among heaps of personal belongings in temporary shelters as raging floodwaters from the Murrumbidgee cut Wagga in halves early this…

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Wagga Cut by Floodwater Forbes People Flee To Hills

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 5

Three thousand homeless people huddled miserably among heaps of personal belongings in temporary shelters as raging floodwaters from the Murrumbidgee cut Wagga in halves early this…

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Man Missing In Floods At Wagga Special Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

WAGGA, Wednesday.—Police and members of the Wagga Rescue Club were…

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Floods Close Four Major Highways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

Four major N.S.W. highways and six branch railway lines were still closed by…

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Wagga Residents Take Anti-flood Precautions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

TOP: Wagga business man, Mr. Walter Lucas, building a brick retaining wall across the front of his motor spare parts shop to keep out floodwaters. ABOVE: A Wagga farmer moved sheep from a flooded paddock to higher land as the floodwaters lapped the edge of the road to North Wagga…

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Floods Swirl Into Forbes Worst Town Has Ever Known

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

Floodwaters last night were swirling through the main streets of Forbes at 20 m.p.h. in the worst flood the town has ever known…

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Floodwaters Cut Highway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

An aerial picture of the floodwaters straddling the Prince's Highway at Sale, Victoria, yesterday. The town is cut off from Melbourne by the floodwaters…

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New Warnings As Floods Move to West

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

The Minister for Social Welfare, Mr. F. J. Finnan, last night warned of grave flood danger to towns west of Wagga, on the Murrumbidgee, and west of Forbes, on…

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Flood Victim's Body Found

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

The body of Stan Thomas, 50, married, who was swept away by the Lachlan floodwaters near Cowra on…

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50-50 Letterettes in Fifty Words Lesson of floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 25

Once more we are in the midst of flood tragedy and destruction. Can't we plan against…

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1300 Homes Flooded People flee to hills at Forbes; Wagga in peril

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

The vast Lachlan and Murrumbidgee floods were racing through Forbes and Wagga last night. Muddy wafer poured into more than 1300 homes and the shopping centres of both towns…

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ARMY, R.A.A.F., Help Fight Flood Wagga like town in battle zone

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

Business people in Wagga yesterday bricked up doorways of their premises to keep out floods. Wagga looked like a town in a battle zone…

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Three die in floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 1

At least three people have been drowned and one man is missing in the present floods in…

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Helicopter Rescues 13 in Flood

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

A Royal Australian Air Force helicopter today rescued 13 persons who had taken refuse on…

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2 Towns In Grip Of Floods

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

Working since dawn. thousands of men have been desperately building new levees at Forbes…

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Desperate Race to Put Up Levees Wagga, Forbes Floods Damage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

Working since dawn, thousands of men have been desperafely building new levees…

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Desperate Race to Put Up Levees Wagga Forbes Floods Damage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

Working since dawn, thousands of men have been desperdtely ' building new. levees…

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Race to Build Flood Levees Helicopter Rescues 17

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 June 1952 · page 3

A Royal Australian Air Force helicopter today rescued 17 persons who had taken refuge on…

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