60 m.p.h. Cyclone Strikes Queensland Coast Three Towns Isolated
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 1
BRISBANE, Wednesday—A cyclone accompanied by 60 m.p.h. winds struck the Central Queensland coast to-day, cutting off Bundaberg, Rockhampton and Gympie from the rest of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day’s Leader: The Show Opens Twenty Killed by Violent Gale in Germany Britain, Europe and United States Swept
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 March 1949 · page 1
LONDON, March 2.—Violent gales, which yesterday swept Britain, Europe and the United States, killed many people and left behind wrecked buildings, disrupted communications and crippled shipping…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 1
BRISBANE, Thursday.—The cyclone, which caused havoc along the Queensland coast yesterday, killing four persons, is moving…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 1
BRISBANE, Friday.—Wednesday’s cyclone in Queensland is estimated to have caused damage of more than £500,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Strikes Queensland Coast Three Killed, Hundreds Homeless
Singleton Argus · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 2
Three people were killed and others injured when a cyclone struck the Queensland colone south of Gladstone, 328 miles…
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The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 4
Three people were killed and others injured when a cyclone struck the Queensland coast south of Gladstone, 328 miles north of Brisbane, early this afternoon…
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Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 1
BRISBANE, Saturday—According to the latest review of damage done in the Queensland cyclone, the devastation is on a…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 2
Every second house in Gladstone has been unroofed and business houses wrecked. The Police Magistrate, Sergeant and Constable arc living in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Towns Isolated By Floods Torrential Rain in Queensland and Nothern N.S.W.
Singleton Argus · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 2
Torrential rain over Queensland and northern New South Wales has caused severe flooding and isolated many towns. Some areas of western New South Wales, which have an average of less than 10 inches of rain a year, have had more…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 6
As is customary alter rain of any appreciable quantity, the low-level bridge at Dalwood was again under water today. For…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 2
Bad flying conditions and impassable roads have prevented emergency food and medical supplies being flown to-day to families stranded in…
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Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 6
CESSNOCK, Tuesday. — With the exception of the open cut mines, which are partly flooded, owing to the heavy rain, and…
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Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 2
Heavy rain fell on Monday in the Stroud, Dungog and Bullahdelah districts. About four inches were registered at Stroud, where 20 inches have…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 4
CANBERRA, Wed.—The Commonwealth Government will subsidise Queensland flood victims on a £ for £ basis with the…
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Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 1
Two men and a woman in a car have been missing for five days in the flooded, isolated, north-western corner of New South Wales. They are Mr. S. Scheild, station manager, his wife, and…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Next Saturday’s Newmarket Handicap may have to be postponed if there is further ra[?]…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 4
After a particularly humid day, a storm broke over Maitland yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock and rain fell heavily for a while…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday.—Heavy rain along the coast has caused severe flooding and has disrupted train schedules. At Albion Park,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bogged Down by Floods. Missing Family Located. Broken Hill
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1
Don Shied, his wife and a station hand, Albert Stewart, who had been missing in the flooded district north of Broken Hill for more than a week,…
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Singleton Argus · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1
Leonaerd Ingram, 40, who cannot swim, was still marooned up a tree at Brush Creek, 20 miles west of Wyong, with ! ',…
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