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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 109

Flood Loss on Dairies

The Land · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 17

The recent floods hi[?] South Coast farmers severely, particularly from Berry southwards…

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Hay's First Sheep Show Success Despite Floods by Our Riverina Representative

The Land · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 2

FAMOUS merino studs had sheep on exhibition at Hay Pastoral and Agricultural Society's first Sheep Show last Saturday…

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Trees, Not Dams, Will Mitigate Flood Effects

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 9

There are some people in New South Wales who claim that floods can be prevented by the construction of what they call "holding dams." These claims are not…

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Better Land Utilisation As Solution To Flood Menace Geography Professor's Views

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 3

IT has been estimated that damage due to the recent floods amounts to about £10,000,000. Professor J. Macdonald Holmes, Professor of…

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Offences In Floods Are Alleged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 10

Forbes police, with detectives from Parkes and Orange, yesterday arrested two men on…

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600 fighting flood to save town

The Sun · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 7

An army of nearly 600 Hay residents today is working on a huge levee to save the town from the swirling Murrumbidgee River…

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Flood levee patrol faces another week's vigil

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 9

Thirteen men in the deserted town of Euabalong will maintain a day and night patrol for another week along the levee holding bock the waters of the flooded Lachlan River…

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Tax Relief in Flood Area Urged

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 9

Mr. Jeff Bate, M.H.R., yesterday asked the Federal Treasurer (Sir Arthur Fadden) to…

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Fever Ravages Flooded Areas

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 3

MEXICO CITY, Fri. (B.U.P.). -- Medical squads are fighting typhoid fever and…

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Fever Ravages Flooded Areas

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 10

MEXICO CITY, Fri. (B.U.P.). --Medical squads are fighting typhoid fever and…

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Fever Ravages Flooded Areas

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 10

MEXICO CITY, Fri. (B.U.P.). Medical squads are fighting typhoid fever and…

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Fever Ravages Flooded Areas

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 10

MEXICO CITY, Fri. (B.U.P.). --Medical squads are fighting typhoid fever and…

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Fever Ravages Flooded Areas

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 3

MEXICO CITY, Fri. (B.U.P.). --Medical squads are fighting typhoid fever and…

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Fever Ravages Flooded Areas

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 10

MEXICO CITY, Fri.(B.U.P.)-- Medical squads are fighting typhoid fever and…

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The Floods

The Methodist · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 7

When inland rivers flood everybody within miles of their main current knows what is happening. As they move down the valleys they have made for themselves…

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Gallop In Floods To Aid Sick Baby

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 1

Victor Killembeck, 23, a farm worker, rode on horseback more than 20 miles through floods to…

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Flooded Rivers Now Stretch 300 Miles

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 3

The outback floods on the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee now stretch for 300 miles…

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Serious disease outbreak feared in flooded area

The Sun · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 3

Outbreaks of serious diseases are feared in flood-devastated areas. Health authorities said today that the danger…

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Plan to prevent Lachlan floods

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 June 1952 · page 3

Lachlan Valley Development League has a plan to prevent flooding of towns along the Lachlan (River. The Mayor of Forbes…

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Euphrates in Flood; Books Go to Water

Truth · Sunday 29 June 1952 · page 17

The Bag-Boys are not likely to recall with happy memory yesterday's reopening day at Warwick Farm after the thrashing they took over the success of…

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