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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1946

312 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 16

Terrific Storm in South Australia Damage by Wind and Rain

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 1

Widespread damage to homes and other property has resulted from one of the most violent storms that has hit South…

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Victoria. Enormous Flood Damage. Melbourne

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 2

While many isolated farm houses are still surrounded by flood waters and road and rail trallic is still held up, the majority of towns ravaged…

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Late Australian News Victoria's Disastrous Floods Receding Relief Measures Being Taken Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 1

While many isolated farm houses are still surrounded by flood waters and road and rail traffic is still held up, a majority…

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Heavy Floods in Victoria People Drowned and Others Marooned

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 1

Rescue boats are operating over a wide area of western Victoria to-day in efforts to bring to safety hundreds of people still marooned on housetops by the latest disasterous floods…

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Enormous Damage by Vic. Floods Heavy Losses of Stock

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—While many isolated farm houses are stilt surrounded by flood waters, and road and rail traffic is still held up, the majority of the towns ravaged by floods in the western areas of the State now appear to…

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Sad Picture of Vic. Flood Damage

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Some estimates now place the damage caused by the disastrous floods in western Victoria as high as £2,000,000. A grim panorama of ruin in wrecked bridges, damaged roads and railway tracks and other severe losses continues to be reveal ed as the waters further recede…

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Victoria's Disastrous Floods Damage Placed at £2,000,000

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 March 1946 · page 2

Some estimates now place the damage caused by the disastrous floods in Western Victoria as high as £2,000,000. A grim…

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P. arid C. Forecasts Heavy Rain

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 4

“The P and C is of the opinion that in the near future, we will again get heavy rains, which will bring the water over Melville…

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Sad Picture Of Victorian Flood Damage

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 2

Some estimates now place the damage caused by the disastrous floods in western Victoria as £2,000,000…

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House Lifted By Fierce Cyclone

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A Brisbane message reports that Mrs. E. Ahern, of Morningside, and her five children, had a frightful…

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Flood Warning on North Coast Fierce Cyclone Lashes. The Eastern Coast

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—All air services between Sydney and Melbourne and Sydney and Brisbane were cancelled early to-day as a result of cyclonic conditions over a wide area over the Australian east coast…

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Flood Losses in Victoria

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. — Stock losses in the recent floods in Western Victoria, were believed to total between 8000 and…

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Flood Danger Developing Hunter River Forecast

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 2

General rain, with heavy fog and flood danger developing; South-cast to cast winds; rough seas…

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Cyclone Moves Out to Sea Still Danger Of Flooding At Kempsey

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY ,Tuesday—The cyclone which caused serious floods and damage in Queensland where four people lost their lives, has moved out to sea in the direction of, Lord Howe Island, and apart from the Kempsey area the main…

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Four Lives Lost in Queensland Floods. Macleay River at Kempsey Above Danger Level. SYDNEY

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 2

The cyclone which caused serious flood and damage in Queensland, where four people lost their lives, has moved out to sea in the direction of…

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Floods on the North Coast Tweed and Richmond Rising Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 4

Swollen by torrential cyclonic rain, rivers along the north coast of New South Wales rose to flood levels last night, and families have evacuated danger areas. An intense cyclone, centred north-east of Brisbane, has…

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More Disastrous Floods In Queensland Four Drowned : Towns Isolated

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Four persons have now been drowned in the latest floods in Queensland. The port of Brisbane has temporarily been closed to in-bound shipping after the cyclone raging along the…

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Flood Waters Invade Grafton Streets Marooned Families Rescued By The Police

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Flood waters on the North Coast are now receding from the various danger points other than at Grafton, where the Clarence river was still rising this morning…

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Extensive Flooding on Northern Rivers Waters Expected To Subside Quickly

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Although some of the greatest floods for, many years have occurred on northern coastal rivers, the Weather Bureau expects them to subside quickly with the return of fine weather…

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Flood on the North Coast 800 People Forced From Homes at South Grafton

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 2

The flood waters on the North Coast are now receding from various danger points, other than at Grafton, where the Clarence…

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