Heavy Rain on North Coast
SYDNEY Thurs—Heavy rain has fallen on the North Coast, causing floods. The Acting State Meteorologist, Mr. Newman, revealing…
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Floods & storms, 1944
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Bayonet Attack in Heavy Rain (From Axel Olsen, In the Ramu Valley.)
A Japanese bayonet attack In torrential rain and Inky blackness, early this morning was beaten off by five members of an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone Strikes Monkerai with Terrific Force Trees Levelled
On the afternoon of Monday, 27th December, a big storm was experienced in Dungog and district, and the wind reached gale force. Some slight…
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The following verse, graphic and convincing, comes from the Christmas edition of Troopo Times, published by the servicemen in Darwin:—…
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SINGLETON Tues.—A heavy thunderstorm occurred yesterday afternoon during which 35 points of rain fell. For some time…
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SYDNEY Tuesday—The city was swept by a fierce electrical storm late yesterday afternoon. Four trams and a train were struck by lightning. The drivers of two trams were taken to hospital…
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The Shire Engineer (Mr. Grattan) reported to Kearsley Council, at its meeting last Tuesday night, that the heavy storm which swept the Millfield and…
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It has become a habit to have a storm each Monday and last Monday was no exception. In fact, there appeared to be about five storms all…
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At a public meeting held in the Millfield Hall last Thursday a committee was formed to assist the victims of the recent cyclone in the Millfield area. This…
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At the last meeting of the District Committee of the Communist Party it was decided to send to the Municipal and Shire Council Fund, in aid of the…
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Mr. O. Matthews. of Pokol[?] has subscribed £1 to the MIllfield Fund…
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SYDNEY Saturday.—In association with a warning of the d[?]ger of bush fires at Wagga,[?] Deniliquin, Mathoura…
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The secretary of the Lower Hunter Regional Committee of the National Water Conservation and Development League (Mr. P…
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LISMORE Monday.—There has been little rain over the catchment since Friday, and the flood danger on the North Coast has…
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In association with a warning of the danger of bush fires at Wagga, Deniliquin. Tumut, Mathoura and Barham, the Divisional Meteorologist. Mr…
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Up to yestretjay, the farmers' • " fears were of bush fires, and anxious eyes watched the smoke that was mounting in valleys ;…
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U.S. soldiers equipped with rocket guns storm ashore on an English beach in manoeuvres preparatory to Allied offensive operations in Europe. Two men are assigned \o each rocket gun, an antitank weapon known as the "bazooka." One man aims and fires the…
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U.S. Marines charge across the sands of Tarawa Island to storm the Island’s airfield during the[?]ree-day battle in which combined U.S. Forces captured Tarawa and the adjacent Islands of Makin and Abername, in the Gilberts group of the South Pacific…
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BROKE Friday—Up to Wednesday farmers [?] were of bush fires and[?] eyes watched smoke that was mounting In…
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An eye-witness of the damage caused by the hailstorm which swept over Oakley Valley this week has given • a graphic…
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