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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1940

176 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 9

Week-end Rain Over Section Of State Little Benefit Inland Gale in Suburbs. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 September 1940 · page 4

Inland districts did not benefit very much by the rain which fell over a section of the State during the weekend. The heaviest falls were received…

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Gale on Coast Shipping Delayed Light Rain in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 5

The gale which raged off the coast during the week-end continued to-day causing delays to coastal shipping. One passenger steamer coming south to…

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Worth Millions Heavy Rain in N.S.W. Gale Raises High Seas Further Falls Needed Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1940 · page 4

Heavy rain of the past four days, and of this month generally, has been worth millions of pounds to primary industry. Further good falls this…

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Storm

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1940 · page 4

About half an inch of rain fell in a storm at Heifer Station last night. There was also a storm at Copmanhurst with some rain…

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100 M.P.H. Gale Flying Boat Turns Back. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 October 1940 · page 4

The British Overseas Airways' flying boat Cleopatra was forced to return to Brisbane three hours after leaving for Sydney to-day. The machine ran into…

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Sturdy Old Maianbar Wreck Withstands Gale

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1940 · page 3

Exposed for hours to a 40 to 50 mile an hour gale and waves that often broke over the deck, the wreck of the North Coast steamer…

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Talkies Saraton Theatre. "The Mortal Storm.''

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 October 1940 · page 3

"The Mortal Storm," screening tonight at the Saraton Theatre, is a masterly drama, of domestic life in Germany before and after the coming of…

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Smelt It a Desert Storm Bushboys in the A.I.F. CAIRO

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 October 1940 · page 5

Last night members Of the A.I.F. saw their first raid since April when an electrical duststorm preceded by a heavy downpour fell in the desert…

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Grafton Council Grant-Loan Works Bitumen Surfacing Water Brigade Floodboats

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 October 1940 · page 6

The ordinary meeting of the Grafton City Council was held last night, there being present: The Mayor (Ald. E. H. Chataway), Alds. C. H. Richards, W. R. Weiley. C.H. Chalmers…

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Talkies Saraton Theatre. "The Mortal Storm."

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 October 1940 · page 3

"The Mortal Storm," a drama of real life in Nazi Germany that will hold you spellbound with its reality and truth, will be presented to-night, at the…

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Rain Forecast N.S.W. And Victoria Storms Expected. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 October 1940 · page 4

Hope for rain in New South Wales and Victoria at the end of the week or early next week, is held out by Mr. Inigo Jones…

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Gale Over Straits of Dover. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1940 · page 5

At south-westerly gale sprang up at night and swept the Straits of Dover. The sea is choppy and low-lying clouds covered the sky. It is misty…

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Storm at Grafton Steady Rain Follows Best for Over Three Months

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 October 1940 · page 4

Following a light thunderstorm at 10 0 o'clock last night, steady rain commenced to fall at Grafton and continued for over two hours. It was the…

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Floods in Spain Death Roll 400. BARCELONA

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 October 1940 · page 5

The death roll caused by floods in the Pyrenees is now 400. Catalonian rivers rose nine to twelve feet as a result of torrential rains…

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Storms on Clarence Some Good Falls 370 Points in Four Hours at Lionsville

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 October 1940 · page 4

Lionsville recorded 370 points of rain in four hours on Sunday, as the result of a storm. The rain commenced to fall heavily about 1 p.m., and continued till…

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Floods in Spain 600 Drowned or Missing. Barcelona

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 October 1940 · page 5

It is now revealed that 600 persons were drowned or are missing in the Catalona floods at the week-end. It is estimated that 6000 are…

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Six Lose Lives Flooding in Mine. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 October 1940 · page 2

Six Asiatic workers lost their lives when the Raub hole, a section of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Company's mine in British Malaya was…

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Country Responds To Thursday's Storm Average of Nearly an Inch Grafton Receives 103 POINTS

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 October 1940 · page 4

As a result of the splendid rain which drenched the countryside on Thursday night and in the early hours of yesterday morning, the…

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95 M.P.H. Sydney's Worst Storm Trail Of Devastation One Dead, Several Injured Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 November 1940 · page 4

The most terrific storm in Sydney's history swept over the metropolis for several minutes this afternoon, causing widespread damage and a number…

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40 Hours Floodlighting FOR 5d. Britain's Portable Projectors for South African Defence

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 1 November 1940 · page 4

South Africa has received from England 240 floodlight projectors each capable of throwing a continuous and powerful 5,000 candle-power…

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