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Floods & storms, 1952

2,176 stories in Sydney's papers · page 74 of 109

Drought Flood Damage Crops

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 12

CHICAGO (B.U.P.).-- Damage to crops totalling more than £70,000,000 has been caused by the drought…

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Crops Devastated: Railway Lines Cut on North Coast Floods Disrupt Food Supplies to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 4

Floods have disrupted sydney's food supplies, and the position has been aggravated by the flooding of north and north coast railway lines near Maitland…

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Crops Devastated: Railway Lines Cut on North Coast Floods Disrupt Food Supplies to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 4

Floods have disrupted Sydney's food supplies, and the position has been aggravated by the flooding of north and north coast railway lines near Maitland…

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Food Supply By Floods

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 2

Floods have disrupted Sydney's food supplies, and the position has been aggravated…

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Drought Flood Damage Crops

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 13

CHICAGO (B.U.P.). --Damage to crops totalling more than £70,000,000 has been caused by the drought…

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Stop Press Floods May Block Trains

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 28

Train traffic in the [?] area may be suspended tonight because of floods the Seecretary for Railways (Mr. W. A. Anderson) said…

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Crop Devastated Railway Lines Cut on North Coast Floods Disrupt Food Supplies to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 4

Floods have disrupted Sydney's food supplies, and the position has been aggravated by the flooding of north and north coast railway lines near Maitland…

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Crops Devastated: Railway Lines Cut on North Coast Floods Disrupt Food Supplies to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 4

Floods have disrupted Sydney's food supplies, and the position has been aggravated by the flooding of north and north coast railway lines near Maitland…

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Drought Flood Damage Crops

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 13

CHICAGO (B.U.P.). -- Damage to crops totalling more than £70,000,000 has been caused by the drought…

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Crops Devastated: Railway Lines Cut on North Coast Floods Disrupt Food Supplies to Sydney

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 4

Floods have disrupted Sydney's food supplies, and the position has been aggravated by the flooding of north and north coast railway lines near Maitland…

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Nepean River Floods Richmond Orchards and Market Gardens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 August 1952 · page 1

An aerial view of the flood waters, extending on both sides of the Nepean River, between Windsor and Richmond yesterday. In the foreground, floodwaters cover orchards and vegetable market gardens. (Flood relief measures, page 3.)…

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Hunter River Floods Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 August 1952 · page 3

TOP: A flooded house in the Mudsfarm district of East Maitland, about five miles from Maitland. LOWER: Men filling sandbags yesterday to strengthen the river bank at Maitland before the river reached a peak of 36 feet nine inches…

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Another £30,000 For Flood Relief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 August 1952 · page 3

The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, and the Premier of New South Wales, Mr. Cahill, yesterday announced that their Governments would each contribute a further £15,000 for flood relief in New South Wales…

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Receding floods reveal wide damage

The Sun · Saturday 9 August 1952 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Saturday.-- Floodwaters were falling steadily today on the lower reaches of the Hunter, and Raymond Terrace and Maitland, which…

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Floodbound Dog to Miss Race at W.p

The Sun · Saturday 9 August 1952 · page 8

Floods in northern areas will prevent prepost favorite, Shy Havoc, from starting in the Patron Stake at Wentworth Park greyhound meeting tonight…

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Floods sweep fertile farmlands Big Area Covered

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 August 1952 · page 7

Floodwaters last night covered more than 50 square miles of rich farm, land near Raymond Terrace…

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Flooded Orchards Near Nepean River

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 August 1952 · page 7

FLOODED river flats on either side of the Nepean between Richmond and Windsor yesterday. The picture shows flooded citrus orchards in the foreground. The broken…

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Leon Gellert On... Fighting the Flood

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 10 August 1952 · page 2

THERE was a time when I loved to hear the patter of rain. I used to listen to it hitting the old tin roof as I…

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Another cyclone likely to bring showers

The Sun · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 5

Another cyclonic depression may form off the NSW coast, the Weather Bureau said…

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Floodwaters Recede

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.— Floodwaters receded from highways in the Maitland area to-day. and the roads are open…

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