Heavy Rain, Gales Cause Floods In Vic
MELBOURNE, Sun.—Torren[?]driven by gales, de[?] in East Gippsland [?]clonic disturbance…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Heavy Rain In North Queensland
BRISBANE, Mon.—The north-west monsoonal flow or air over the peninsular, which has been steadily freshening and moving…
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Graf ton and district yesterday sweltered in hot, humid conditions. About mid-afternoon storm clouds worked up from the west…
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Isolated storms, some of them severe, were experienced over widely separated areas of the Clarence district on Monday and…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—The body of a man arid woman recovered from the River Avon at Bathford. Somerset, were the…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—Flood warnings have been issued on the North Coast, following torrential rains yesterday and to-day from the Macleay, north to the Queensland…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Thousands of pounds of damage was caused in Sydney to-day by torrential rains which have brought immense benefit to farmers from Cape York to the Victorian border. The Weather Bureau to-night announced that most of the rain…
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People living on the lowlying portions of South Grafton lost a lot of sleep on Sunday night as a result of a flood…
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SYDNEY, Sun.—Three deaths followed a freak 75 m.p.h. cyclonic storm that swept the central western districts of the State yesterday afternoon and later hit the…
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LISMORE, Wed.—Switch girls who stayed non-stop at Lismore Exchange during the June floods had still not been paid overtime…
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BRISBANE, Wed. — An hour before a 100-knot cyclone was forecast to reach New Caledonia, two French Catalina amphibian…
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MACLEAN. — The Minister for Public Works has offered Maclean Municipal Council 50 per cent. of the cost of…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Tues.—A heavy electrical storm broke over Coff's Harbour this afternoon. Steady rain fell for about half…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Tues.—Before the breaking of a heavy storm over Coff's Harbour early this afternoon, residents at Coff's…
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WHITEMAN CREEK.—During a storm on Tuesday afternoon and evening, 18 points of rain were registered. In the last week…
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Grafton was the centre of a series of storms which swept the Clarence yesterday. The rain, which was badly wanted…
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During a short but sharp storm on Tuesday afternoon very heavy rain fell at Coffs Harbour and in the vicinity of…
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BROKEN weather throughout the Clarence over the past week culminated in a series of storms during the week-end. They yielded falls ranging from a few points at Yamba to about two inches at Glenreagh. Grafton's unofficial week-end registration…
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CAIRNS, Thursday.—Extensive damage is reported to have been caused at Cooktown by a [?]lone which struck the town early this…
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BRISBANE, Fri.—Cut of residences in Cooktown 117 have been either wrecked or baldly damaged by the cyclone…
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