Air Mail To flooded Areas
Regular air mail services beginning next week to northern stations will overcome spasmodic deliveries which have followed the flooding of the Cooper and Diamentina. The service, which starts on…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Heavy Rain at Katalpa
Widespread rain around Katalpa Station; about 150 miles from Broken Hill, and also north of it, was reported by Mr. Howard Tre…
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Melbourne.—The vacht Kurrewa III. was severely battered early today when it was caught in a hurricane in the Tasman Sea. Big…
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Flies were becoming a serious menace to stock in areas where heavy rains had fallen, a stock owner and stock agents…
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Oklahoma City, May 1— At least 10 persons were killed and about 85 injured when a series of tornadoes swept across…
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Mr. J. J. Clark. M.H.R., has received the following from the State Minister for Building Material (Mr. W. E. Dickson. N.L.C.):…
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Mt. J. J. Clark, M.H.R. has received the following from the State Minister for Building Materials (Mr. W. E. Dickson, M.L.[?]…
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New York, May 18.—Three bodies have been recovered and 12 other persons are missing, presumed drowned, at Fort Worth. Texas, where the…
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Washington, May 19.—The disappearance of a quarter of an ounce of Uranium 235 has raised a storm in Congress with Irate members demanding to…
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New York, May 19.—Seven lives have been lost and 13,000 are homeless and six million doll[?]rs worth of damage has been done in the Fort Worth (Texas)…
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Macsi[?] (Brazil), May 26.—Wide-spread floodwaters in north-eastern Brazil have killed over 200 persons and left hundreds missing…
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Sydney.—Serious damage to structures along the coast, blackouts in Sydney, and interruptions of communications are attributed to the week end cyclone…
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Sydney.—The collier Hetton Bank arrived in Sydney from Newcastle late last night after battling through 70 m.p.h. winds and high seas for more than 30 hours…
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Sydney, June 5.—Leaving behind it a trail of damage estimated at thousand of pounds a violent gale which swept the eastern part of the State eased late today. Winds which reached a velocity of over 70 m.p.h. yesterday subsided today,…
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New York, June 15— Eleven persons lost their lives in floods in Texas and,13 died in a heat wave in New England on Tuesday…
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Sydney. — The Nepean River broke its banks in several placeo today, flooding hundreds of acres of farmlands in the Camden…
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Sydney, June 17.—The 7,176 ton Italian freighter Orione torn from her anchorage in Athol Bight early this morning and driven ashore at Kurraba Point, was towed into deep water by the tugs Heros and Lindfield shortly after midday. The ship…
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Sydney.— No early relief is expected from the heavy cyclonic rain which has caused the most severe floods ever known from the Hunter River to the South Coast…
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Petersburg (West Virginia). June 19.—Floods that struck almost without warning brought death and destruction to Sher[?]ah and the Potomac Valley…
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Sydney, June 19.—Although floodwaters are receding in many areas of the N.S.W. coast, leaving a trail of drownings and destruction, the position in the lower Hunter River Valley has become critical. Seven people have been drowned in the…
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