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Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 109

3 Months' Isolation Feared Euabalong Facing Big Lachlan Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 3

Popple in the almost deserted village of Euabalong, on the Lachlan River, are preparing for three months' isolation by floodwaters which are expected to encircle it today…

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Town Fights Flood Traffic Blitz Begins

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 1

TOP LEFT: Volunteers build a levee outside the small town of Darlington Point, on the Murrumbidgee, after bulldozers and heavy machines had pushed earth to the danger…

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Town Fights Flood Traffic Blits Begins

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 1

TOP LEFT: Volunteers build a levee outside the small town of Darlington Point, on the Murrumbidgee, after bulldozers and heavy machines had pushed earth to the danger…

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3 Months' Isolation Feared Euabalong Facing Big Lachlan Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 3

People in the almost deserted village of Euabalong, on the Lachlan River, are preparing for three months' isolation by floodwaters which are expected to encircle it today…

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3 Months' Isolation Feared Euabalong Facing Big Lachlan Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 3

People in the almost deserted village of Euabalong, on the Lachlan River, are preparing for three months' isolation by floodwaters which are expected to encircle it today…

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3 Months' Isolation Feared Euabalong Facing Big Lachlan Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 3

People in the almost deserted village of Euabalong, on the Lachlan River, are preparing for three months' isolation by floodwaters which are expected to encircle it today…

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The Causes Of Our Growing Flood Disasters

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 14

In the last three years, frequently recurring floods have brought death and devastation to almost every major river valley in…

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Town Fights Flood Eisenhower Solidly Favors Pacific Pact

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tues. (A.P., I.N.S., B.U.P., U.P.).--General Eisenhower, candidate for Republican nomination for the United States' Presidency, today gave unequivocal support to the Pacific Pact between America, Australia and New Zealand…

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Town Fights Flood Eisenhower Solidly Favors Pacific Pact

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tues. (A.P., I.N.S., B.U.P., U.P.).--General Eisenhower, candidate for Republican nomination for the United States' Presidency, today gave unequivocal support to the Pacific Pact between America, Australia and New Zealand…

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3 Months' Isolation Feared Euabalong Facing Big Lachlan Flood

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 3

People in the almost deserted village of Euabalong, on the Lachlan River, are preparing for three months' isolation by floodwaters which are expected to encircle it today…

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The Causes Of Our Growing Flood Disasters

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1952 · page 14

In the last three years, frequently recurring floods have brought death and devastation to almost every major river valley in…

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Storm Warning

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 5

A storm reached down from the northward And shadowed across the hold, As we loaded iron in the Dalfram, Heavy and harsh and cold…

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Melb. Lashed by Record Gales

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tues.--Victoria's worst June gales for 41 years today caused heavy damage and disrupted train, plane and shipping services…

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Miners’ women barred but brasshat is in Labor Council storm

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 3

WINCING and blustering through cries of “shame” and “sell-out”, rightwing NSW Labor Council official shortell,…

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Parramatta Girl Is Flood Victim

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

Mrs. Russell Webb, of Forbes, formerly Miss Helen Peake, of Parramatta, recently came with her husband…

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Cattle Stranded by Floods at Narrandera

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 1

Mr. Stewart Andrews throws hay from an Army "duck" to some of his cattle which are marooned on a small island in the Murrumbidgee floods near Middle Bridge, Narrandera. Water was gradually creeping up around the cattle…

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Tornadoes, Floods In Four Countries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, June 24 (A.A.P.).—Floods, tornadoes, and a typhoon in the last 24 hours have caused…

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Flood Threat Continues Township Ready For Long Siege

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 3

With the crests of the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan floods sweeping westward, the threat to the townships of Darlington Point and Euabalong continued last night…

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Fight the floods, not the Koreans

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 12

Immediate and adequate relief, full restoration and compensation, and measures for prevention are the crying needs of the flood-distressed areas of Australia. IT is obvious that the Menzies…

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Appalling wreckage, inspiring courage in flood-swept Wagga By a Tribune reporter just returned from the flood areas

Tribune · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 12

WAGGA.—The Murrumbidgee flood waters have hit Wagga and passed on their angry course, leaving behind a trail of immeasurable devastation and human tragedy—and the heroic determination of flood victims to return to life to once more restore the damage as best they can…

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