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Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 109

Melbourne's Worst Floods in 20 Tears

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Mon.-- The worst floods for 20 years are sweeping through 'Melbourne suburbs. Hundreds or homes are feet deep in water, and…

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Melbourne's Worst Floods in 20 Years

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Mon.--The worst floods for 20 years are ; sweeping through Melbourne suburbs. Hundreds of homes are feet deep in water, and…

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Melbourne's Worst Floods in 20 Years

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 July 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Mon.-- The worst floods for 20 years are sweeping through Melbourne suburbs. Hundreds of homes are feet deep in water, and…

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Call for Flood Prevention

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

Leading citizens of Forbes, Maitland, and Kempsey — three of the most frequently flooded communities in N.S.W.— said last night that the State and Federal…

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Hundreds Flee From Vic. Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Hundreds of people fled from their homes last night in the Chelsea-Carrum district — the worst flood area in a water-logged State…

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N.S.W. River Floods Can Be Reduced, But Not Ended

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 2

Can the flooding of Eastern Australian rivers be prevented? If so would that protection be worth its price?…

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Two Drown in Car in Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon. -- Two men were drowned when their car skidded off a flooded road and into a dam near Geelong today…

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Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tuesday -- Floodwaters swamped four bayside suburbs of Chelsea, Bonbeach,…

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Four Melbourne Areas Flooded

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday-- Floodwaters swamped four bayside suburbs oi Chelsea. Bon beach…

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Four Melbourne Areas Flooded

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday -- Floodwaters swamped four bayside suburhs Of Chelsea. Bonbeach,…

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Floods Swamp Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues. --Floodwaters swamped four Bayside suburbs of Chelsea, Bonbeach,…

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Floods Swamp Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tues. --Floodwaters swamped four Bayside suburbs of Chelsea, Bonbeach,…

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Floods Swamp Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- Floodwaters swamped four Bayside Suburbs of Chelsea, Bonbeach,…

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Floods Swamp Suburbs

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 July 1952 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- Floodwaters swamped four Bayside suburbs of Chelsea, Bonbeach,…

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River Flood Menace in N.S.W. Taming Savage Macleay Is Big But Urgent Task

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 2

Although Australia's most destructive floods have scourged the Macleay River Valley every 25 years or so since white settlement, not one of them has been what the meteorologists call the "maximum possible flood."…

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Workers‘ party to help flood victims

Tribune · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 2

WAGGA. —A group of workers in Wagga have organised a Hood Restoration Party of laborers and skilled tradesmen to assist flood victims…

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Sudden flood surprises town

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tues.--A sudden wall of wafer flooded Seymour tonight and surprised hundreds of families. The waters raced…

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Melbourne floods

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 7

A HOUSEHOLDER paddling a canoe yesterday to his flooded home in Hyatt Street in the…

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Drama of the FLOODS-No

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 July 1952 · page 11

The policemen were rescued after their patrol boat. seen under tree at left, overturned in the…

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Flood Control Is Lagging In Hurtter Valley

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 July 1952 · page 2

The century-old struggle against floods in the Hunter River Valley is at last making some headway. The stages of public protests and Government promises have been passed, and the stage of action reached…

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