Delayed By Floods
HONG KONG, Tues. (AAP-Reuter).--Heavy flooding along the Yangtse is expected to seriously delay the communist…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Repairing Damage Caused By Floods
MACLEAN.--Harwood Shire Council expended £294152 during 1948 on the clearing of flood mud and debris and…
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LONDON, Sun. (AAP).--Two boys and two men were killed and, many injured in violent thunderstorms, accompanied by…
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LONDON, Mon. (A.A P.).-- Lightning set fire, to buildings and killed at least one pers in during violent thunderstorms in…
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CANTON, Monday (AAP).--Twenty million Chinese were homeless as the result of the recent disastrous floods in…
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CANBERRA. Tuesday.--Mr. Chifley announced the Commonwealth had decided to increase the grant of up to…
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Heavy storms, which developed into steady rain at some centres, were experienced throughout the Clarence Valley yesterday afternoon. Falls of about an inch…
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HONG KONG, Sunday. (AAP-Reuter).—The Peiping radio claimed that over 10 million people have been rendered…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- For the second time within a period six weeks, residents of South Maitland are evacuating homes…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—With water only 12 inches below the sandbag level at Oakhampton, Maitland this afternoon, the Hunter River…
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AUCKLAND, Sun. (AAP).—A tropical cyclone is moving toward New Zealand from New Caledonia, bringing floods from…
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COFF HARBOUR, Sun.--A heavy storm yesterday afternoon and light rain at night and this morning Caused the cancellation…
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PRAGUE, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--Sixteen persons have now lost their lives in the heavy floods in eastern Slovakia, and the Tatra…
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LUCKNOW, Tues. (AAP).-- Nearly 500 villages in the United. Provinces are under water as a result of floods after heavy rains…
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TURIN, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--A sudden cyclone which swept through Turin yesterday killed four and injured 50. The wind…
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SYDNEY, Thurs. -- A storm warning was issued to-day. It read: "Strong pressure gradients over the N.S.W. coast, south from…
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The heaviest gale Coffs Harbour has experienced for many years lashed the Coastline from midnight until this morning. Seas of mountainous proportions battered the breakwaters and harbour installations throughout the night. The Matthew Flinders, moored at the Jetty, broke her lines at 2 a.m…
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The heaviest gale Coffs Harbour has experienced for many years lashed the Coastline from midnight until this morning. Seas of mountainous proportions battered the breakwaters and harbour installations throughout the night. The Matthew Flinders, moored at the Jetty, broke her lines at 2 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scout-Guide Rally Heavy Rain Delays Many Contingents
ALTHOUGH the arrival of many visitors has been delayed until this morning by heavy and widespread rain, the Girl Guide and Boy Scout Silver Shield Rally got away to a good start at Grafton yesterday…
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COFF'S HARBOUR Friday.--Eight launches and two yachts of an estimated total value of £35,000 were washed ashore at Coff's Harbour early this morning. Of the craft washed ashore…
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