Frantick Race to Beat Floods Threat To Scores Of Towns
Scores of towns on the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers expect record floods within the next 24 hours…
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Floods Threatening Seores Of Towns
Scores of towns on the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers expect record floods within the next 24 hours. Thousands of residents are frantically attempting to build earth and sandbag levees before the arrival of the floodwaters,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Threatening Scores Of Towns
Scores or towns on the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers expect record floods within the next 24 hours. Thousands of residents are frantically attempting to build…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Battles to Avert Flooding Danger Close For Many Towns
Scores of towns oil the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers expect record floods within the next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forbes Flood-level Now Falling Growing Danger At Narrandera From Our Special Reporters
Floodwaters raging through Forbes fell about one foot yesterday, but were still above the peak of the previous record flood last October. Meanwhile Narrandera, on the Murrumbidgee, was facing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Forbes Street
Looking towards the main shopping centre of Forbes, from Nth. Hill, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assessing the Damage Heavy Flood Toll In Forbes, Wagga
With the water receding in most areas, a start was made yesterday to assess the huge total of flood damage in the State. In Forbes and Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scenes in Wagga, Forbes Floods
TOP: The flooded city of Wagga as seen from the air yesterday. LOWER: Railwaymen who have been clearing the line of debris return on their trolley to Forbes railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mud and Floods Didn't Stop Him
MELBOURNE, Sat. — Russell Beckett (24), Walhalla timber worker, waded through mud to his armpits and swam through mountain torrents to attend his wedding on time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New areas prepare against floodwaters Narrandera threatened by river 30 miles wide Tremendous damage to properties, stock Victims of the Floods
With the floodwaters of the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers ebbing, hundreds of families face the heartbreaking task of returning to homes in Forbes and Wagga damaged by mud and slush. Some families have already returned and are hosing and shovelling feet-thick debris from their homes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floodwaters Surging Into Narrandera Houses Feverish Work on Levees
Fast-rising floodwaters last night swept into parts of Narrandera, and floods are expected in Condobolin to-day. In both towns sweating men are working furiously to build up levee banks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Tree-top Boys" Recover After Flood Ordeal At Forbes Mercy "Duck"
Above: An Army "duck" sets off on a rescue mission along a flooded Forbes street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FLOODS Destruction Revealed As Forbes Water Recedes High Loss Estimate
Floodwaters dropped about three feet in Forbes yesterday, leaving behind a scene of destruction. In the shopping centre the damage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£5-Mill, Damage in N.S.W. FLOODS More towns face 10-mile onrush New fear
WHILE early estimates yesterday showed that NSW floods had cost the State about £5-million-- Main floodwaters were moving fast…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Did Not Stop Football
Teams from two flooded towns played football yesterday. Gundagai and Cowra…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grim race to save homes from floods Muddy tide sweeping down on river towns
Flood wafers from the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers are sweeping down valleys on many small towns. Thousands of people in the path of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Liner battles gale in Tasman
The Wanganella, with 240 passengers aboard, is battling a gale across the Tasman for the third trip…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Damage Revealed As Water Recedes at Forbes
TOP: Wreckage of Mr. Alan Breadon's garage in Rankin Street, Forbes, after the floodwaters receded yesterday. Damage to the business has been estimated at £10,000. The garage was also destroyed in the October, 1950, floods. LEFT: Mrs. W. A. McGee in the flooded lounge of her home in Bridge Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£10 Millon Flood Damage Official Estimate For Minister
The Minister for Social Welfare, Mr. F. J. Finnan, said last night that the overall damage caused by the N.S.W. floods was estimated to be at least £10 million…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Looting in flood area-- call for police
Some shops in flood-devastated Forbes were looted last night, Mayor Ald. P. Conridge said today. Ten police from Forbes,…
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