Victorian Gale
Melbourne. —Victoria had its worst gale for 25 years last night. It left a trail of damage in city and country areas. Houses…
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Floods & storms, 1948
192 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 10
Some Damage in City Storm
Minor damage was reported from several parts of the city today following lowing last night's severe wind storm.The wind reached gale…
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London. September 5.—Heavy storms and landslides today cut rail communications between Turin and Genoa in Italy. The main rivers of north-western…
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Melbourne.—Police and insurance company estimates indicate that damage caused in Victoria yesterday by the 100 m.p.h…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communists Storm Berlin City Hall Session Is Called Off
Berlin, September 6.—Communist demonstrators rushed the city hall, swept aside the Soviet sector German police, broke down the main door and swarmed into the building ten minutes before the city assembly was due to begin, says Reuter's…
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London September 6.—More than [?]0 people lost their lives in a violent storm which swept Northern Italy at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soviet Rocket Expert Attacked Russians' Storm Of Questions
London, September 7.—Angry Russian press representatives caused a stormy scene yesterday when they tried to "grill" the Russian rocket expert…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Over Anti-picketing Releases Did Watersiders Pay Fines?
Brisbane, September 9.—The leader of the Queensland Opposition (Mr. T. Hiley) said in the Legislative Assembly to-day that the Hanlon Government's action in withdrawing the anti-picketing legislation was "full of corruption" and played…
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London, September 16.—An over-night rainstorm, one of the worst in 30 years, flooded roads throughout western Scotland yesterday…
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Those are crucial days for the harvest in Britain. When storms and heavy rains came in August, they caused heavy damage and so much of the corn was…
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New York. September 17.—An American coast-guard cutter and two merchant ships yesterday co-operated in violent seas to rescue 79 seamen from…
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Tokio (A.A.P.-Reuter). September 17.—Extensive damage from Kyushu to Hokkai is reported as a result of a typhoon which this week swept a large…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Barrier Miner Wednesday, September 22, 1948. Have You Felt Those Equinoctial Gales?
IN the unsettled, occasionally squally, weather of the past few days many people will see confirmation of an old belief that stormy weather is prevalent about the time the sun crosses the equator…
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Canberra.—A suggestion that Commonwealth controls over the sale of Queensland grown tobacco were removed because most of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Passing Storm Gives 15 Points Yesterday
After a good day on Saturday the city yesterday afternoon experienced number of storms which quickly passed over the city. These storms gave a…
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Many houses in the Crystal St. area were without electricity last night due to the storm at the week-end. High and low tension…
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Following week-end falls further rain was experienced locally and in the district early yesterday morning, making the total local fall from 9 a.m…
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Adelaide.—£5,000 to £8,000 damage waa done to the State's fishing fleet in the week-end gale Boats were sunk, damaged or…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Freak Storms Blow Soil To Sea Millions Of Tons Hundreds Of Miles
Sydney, October 12.—Millions of tons of top soil scoured from N.S.W. by freak storm winds during the past two days have been blown 600 miles out to sea, where a B.C.P.A. Skymaster pilot reported today that the soil formed a solid wall of…
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