A Hungry Girl and a Gale Medal for Fifteen Year Old
There have never been many decorations which civilians could win for courage, and before the introduction during World War 11 of the George Cross and George…
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Floods & storms, 1946
161 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 9
Floods in S.a. Port Pirie Under Water
South Australia has had torrential rains and the East-West train has been held up for days. The passengers have had an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Third Flood in Twelve Years Pirie Under Water
For the third time in 13 years the town of Port Pirie is once again under water and until Wednesday, morning there semed imminent danger of another…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood-bound Trains Moving for Stations
ADELAIDE.—An express will leave Adelaide for Perth at 1.30 p.m. tomorrow and another will leave at 1.15 p.m. on Monday, the secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violent Storm At Railway Town Damages Property
AN electrical storm, accompanied by a torrential downpour of rain a little after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon resulted in a registration of 100 points within 15 minutes at the pumping station at Umberumberka…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tropiclike Storm Follows Humid Day Varying Intensity In City's Suburbs
After a day of high humidity Broken Hill last night experienced a thunderstorm and heavy downpour of rain which might be said to be tropical in its intensity. However, the intensity was different in different parts of the town, those people in West…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Move Again Trains In Flooded S.A.
Ade[?]able, February 23.—The three trains held up in South Australia because of the floods are now on the move. The transcontinental express for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cleaning Out Of Important Drain Move To Stop Blende Street Flooding
Yesterday employees of the Council were engaged upon the work of cleaning out a most important drain, a drain which hat not been functioning as it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone And Five Inches Of Rain At Ivanhoe
Adelaide, February 26.—Ivanhone, the Broken Hill-Sydney line, was struck by a cyclone late yesterday afternoon and 5 inches or rain fell, flooding the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Flood Bound Two Men Struck by Lightning
Melbourne, February 28.—Lashed by a disastrous cyclone last night and de[?]uged with rain, Melbourne today was practically flood bound and the city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Victims Back to Homes
MELBOURNE.—As river levels the Yarra and its tributaries fell today many, families who were flooded out in the deluge on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Much House Damage In Melbourne Floods
Melbourne, February 27.—As the floodwaters caused by Monday night's cy[?]lunic disturbance continued to recede today, many people who were driven from their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News From Ivanhoe Streets Flooded When Storm Breaks
Net since 1939 has Ivanhoe had such heavy rain as that which fell on Monday and Tuesday last when just on four inches were recorded locally, and in many coses the registrations were much heavier, the highest being at The Clump, Mossgiel, where…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Damage at North Council Talks on Homes and Building
THE Broken Hill Proprietary dam was discussed at last night's Council meeting both with regard to damage caused by recent floods and a proposal to make the area available for building purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rain Follows Qld. Cyclone
BRISBANE. — Torrential rains are falling in a new cyclone, which has crossed the coast near Babinda, south of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrific Floods in Queensland Disaster Faces Northern Towns
Brisbane, March 4.—The greatest cyclonic floods in Queensland's history are devastating 466 miles of the coastal belt between Mackay and Cairns. Millions of tons of flood water from rain-soaked northern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queensland Floods "Isolated! Water Creeping Up"—Then Silence
Brisbane, March 5.—The pilot of a plane which flew over Home Hill this morning found the town under water and saw occupants of houses clinging to the roof tops waving excitedly. The township of Ayr a few miles away suffered the same fate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ten Dead in Floods Hundreds Said To Be Homeless; Serious Damage
BRISBANE.—Ten lives have now been lost in the North Queensland floods and hundreds of people are homeless. The cyclone which brought the floods is moving away from the coast across the Coral Sea,…
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BRISBANE. — Although flood waters are still menacing Home Hill and Ayr, incomplete reports received in Brisbane suggest that the floods appear to be receding slightly and it is not impossible that both…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Townsville Floods Lives Lost And Huge Damage
Townsville, March. 6.—Damage in Townsville will run into many thousands, but it will not be possible to make a close estimate unless the flood waters recede as many houses in Hermit Park are still submerged. The south eastern suburbs of Railway Estate…
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