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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 109

Forbes Flood Havoc To Furniture

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 29 June 1952 · page 4

The Mayor of Farbes, Alderman P. Conridge, estimated yesterday that floodwater had caused more than…

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Disease outbreak feared Danger As Floods Fall

The Sun · Sunday 29 June 1952 · page 9

SERIOUS outbreaks of disease are feared in flood-devastated areas…

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£1000 to Aid Flood Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 29 June 1952 · page 7

An allotment of £1000 from the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph Rugby League Skill Contests will be made soon to help the…

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Gales Delay Ships

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sun.--Gales delayed shipping along the Victorian coast today…

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Icy Gale Batters Southern Australia Snowfalls In NSW Towns To Continue

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 2

Icy winds from Antarctica which swept across Southern Australia yesterday and last night brought bleak winter conditions to…

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Icy Gale Batters Southern Australia Snowfalls In NSW Towns To Continue

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 2

Icy winds from Antarctica which swept across Southern Australia yesterday and last night brought bleak winter conditions to…

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Flood Losses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 2

Sir,—With regard to reports of very heavy stock losses in the floods about Forbes: My information, derived from…

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Flood victim found

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 5

Two youths yesterday found the body of a flood victim at Hargrave Park, near Warwick Farm. The youths were flying model aeroplanes…

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Wagga Rescue Club saves 4 in flood Men Cling to Tree

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 5

Members of the Wagga Rescue Club yesterday saved the lives af four young men in floodwaters at Darlington Point…

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Flood Men Save Four

Daily Mirror · Monday 30 June 1952 · page 6

Four men were thrown into swirling floodwater when their rowing boat capsized in a street at…

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Margarine will flood New York

The Sun · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK, Monday --Makers of yellow-colored margarine today loaded millions of pounds…

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Flood swamps village

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 3

Floodwaters yesterday spilled over Billabong Creek, a tributary of the Murrumbidgee River, and flooded the village of Conargo. The floodwaters also…

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Boats in Flooded Village

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 8

DENILIQUIN, Tues. -- Floodwaters from Billabong Creek have inundated the village of…

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Boats in Flooded Village

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 8

DENILIQUIN, Tues. -- Floodwaters from Billabong Creek have inundated the village of…

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Want State Insurance for Flood Victims

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 5

Holroyd Council will urge the Local Government Conference to seek establishment by State Government of a national insurance scheme to cover bushfire and flood damage in…

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Chinese people end flood scourge

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 4

AFTER attending last May Day celebration in Peking, Mr. Clancy visited the Huai project, which he describes below. “It Is designed to eliminate the flood danger in the Huai Valley where only three years ago half a million people were drowned and thousands of acres…

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Wagga Council must pay these flood victims

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 8

WAGGA.—The Duke of Kent Park Housing Commission settlement, in South Wagga is under water. Tenants have barely had…

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For the sake of our children--act now to prevent floods

Tribune · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 6

TWILIGHT at the Wagga Showgrounds last week was not a lovely sight, despite the flickering open fires which…

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Editorial [The opinions expressed in this Journal are not necessarily those of the Master Builders' Association, unless otherwise stated.] Flood Protection

Construction · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 1

Once again, in two years, a considerable area of inland New South Wales has been devastated by floods, this time confined mainly to the Lachlan and Murrumbidgee Rivers, both of which already hold storage dams…

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Families Cut Off by Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 July 1952 · page 12

Floodwaters from the Lachlan River have marooned many families around Hillston. Last night the river…

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