Winter’s Worst Gale In Newfoundland
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 1
MONTREAL, March 4.—One of the winter’s most intense storms swept eastern Canada on Sunday and Monday, and there were at least two deaths in the Montreal district. The storm deprived Quebec city of power, paralysed…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1947 · page 3
Hillsborough Progress Association asked Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day whether anything further had been done towards providing a…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 5
LONDON, March 6.—Britain’s worst winter for over 50 years is dying hard. A blizzard swept the country last night and the worst storms in living memory cut off villages and hamlets in a belt from the south of Wales to Bedford,…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 6
Britain’s decision to quit India not later than June, 1948, has produced a storm which already exceeds any to the long series associated with India. Since Mr Attlee’s bombshell in the Commons recently, there has been a rising side of indignation at the method…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 1
N.S.W. Forecast: Isolated showers on the North Coast; scattered afternoon thunderstorms, mainly in the north-east quarter, but…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 2
On Sunday afternoon a storm broke with suddenness and caused much damage south of Dungog. Wind blew at gale force from west to east in a…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 2
A thaw has spread over almost the whole of Britain, except for the extreme north of England and East Scotland, bringing widespread fog and…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 1
LONDON, March 11—The thaw has spread over almost the whole of Britain except for the extreme north of England and the east of…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 1
N.S.W. Forecast: Warm to hot and [?]ultry with scattered afternoon thunderstorms, mainly In the north-eastern and coastal sections, with…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 1
The thaw has now spread over almost the whole of Britain except the extreme north of England and eastern Scotland…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 2
The Hunter River forecast issued to-day is Warm to hot and sultry, with isolated afternoon thunderstorms; fresh northerly…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 1
N.S.W. Forecast: Scattered showers on the west and west of the highlands and along the coast, with tome Isolated heavy…
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Singleton Argus · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 4
Mr. Alex. Callen, of Dunolly, had a remarkable escape from possible death or serious injury in the electrical storm yesterday…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 1
At the meeting of Hunter District Water Board, the Water Supply Committee reported that at a meeting of the Flood Mitigation Committee held…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1
N.S.W. Forecast: Isolated thunderstorms in the north-east, otherwise fine and warm, with cool northwest to south-east…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 3
LONDON, March 17.—A man and his wife were killed when the gate-blew in the roof of a house at St. John’s Wood…
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Singleton Argus · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 1
While flood waters swirled over large parts of southern land, blizzards again swept most of the country this week-end. While a good part of Britain is still under snow or water, a strong gale hit Southern. England last night proving that…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 5
While flood waters swirled over large parts of southern England, [?]ards again swept most of the country at the week-end. The Thames was reported to…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 3
LONDON, March.—The death roll as the result of floods which followed the week-end thaw is 15, including six men, eight women and a 10-year-old girl. Troops, who were working to heat the Thames, which…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 1
BERLIN, March 18. — Six German civilians were killed and 12 others Injured in Berlin and Hamburg yesterday, when the…
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