Disease Fear After Floods In Queensland
BRISBANE.—Medical authorities in Townsville, Ayr, and Home Hill flood area fear outbreaks of typhoid and pneumonia…
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Floods & storms, 1946
161 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 9
Scene Of Queensland Floods
THE BURDEKIN RIVER, Queensland, which has menaced towns in the basin area with record floodwaters. This picture was taken last year at the railway bridge, when the river was 46 ft. deep. Now it is 84 ft. deep…
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Townville, March 7.—While flood-waters are receding from inundated areas, civic authorities are planning ways and means of relieving the distressed…
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Sydney, March 8.—A warning of a cyclone raging between Rockhampton and New Caledonia has been wirelessed to Jap Hell's Ship Yoizuki by the RAN, but they have not been acknowledged by the captain of the destroyer. Unless he look instant action the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burdekin Flood Waters Mr. Horsington Raises Bradfield Scheme
In the Legislative Assembly this week Mr. E. M. Harrington asked: Will the Premier say whether it is a fact, as reported in the Press, that flood water of…
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AIR VIEW OF HOME HILL TOWNSHIP, Queensland, where residents spent a night on rooftops following record floods. The township was the centre of a mile-wide torrent from the Burdekin River. Regular supplies of food were dropped to the marooned, residents…
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Owing to exceptional rain at Adelaide this morning the drome was closed to all outgoing planes Consequently the Adelaide, service…
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BROKEN HILL today suffered another of its dust, storms when at 2.20 p.m. a red wall of dust blacked out the…
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ADELAIDE— In last night's violent storm, which has done widespread damage, 30ft. of the Semaphore Jetty was…
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A red dust storm that struck the city between 2 and 2.30 p.m. yesterday brought, with it a decided cool change, the temperature at 3 p.m. reading only…
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THE weather today was just a continuation of yesterday afternoon, when the. city was blacked out by a dust storm. After the initial blast of yesterday's storm had abated at 2.30 p.m., the high wind still blew dust along with the result that it continued…
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Adelaide, March 17—From Friday to Saturday evening South Australia was lashed by a series of violent storms that did many thousands of pounds of…
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MELBOURNE.âSix persons are dead and hundreds homeless, thousands of cattle and sheep have been drowned, and much damage has been caused in the western district and Tasmania by floods. Bridges are under water or washed away, roads are impassable, and many trains will be held up. Rain was still…
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Melbourne, March 18.—It has been ascertained that the five victims of the flood at Macarthur were members of one family, George Henry Sparrow (58), his wife, Lillian Sparrow (56), Mavis Leititia Sparrow (24), Bruce Leo Sparrow (22), Ronald Hamilton…
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MELBOURNE.—While many isolated farm houses are still surrounded by flood waters and road and rail traffic is still held up, the majority of towns ravaged by floods in the western area of the State now appear to be out of danger. As the flood waters…
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Melbourne, March 19.—Dramatic stories of timely rescues from floods in western Victoria come to hand as communication is restored. Till late this…
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MELBOURNE.— Some estimates now place the damage caused by the disastrous floods in Western Victoria as…
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Melbourne. March 20.—Floodwaters are receding in Western Victoria, leaving damage estimated at £2,000,000 Lost of livestock will aggravate the present…
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CANBERRA.—The Federal Government will contribute up to £10,000 for immediate relief to sufferers in the Victorian…
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SYDNEY. — All air services between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane were cancelled early today as a result of…
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