Bureau of Warns of Floodings
SYDNEY, Mon. — The Weather Bureau tonight forecast further rain for the Illawarra and South…
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Flats Flooded
A recording of the rainfall at Gerringong over the week-end, showed that 654 points had fallen up to 9 a .m. Monday morning…
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Torrential rains over last wee-end—the wettest this year caused damage to roads, crops, and property, and caused further delay to Kiama Council's Jerrara Creek dam project. A sudden flood of water through Jerrara…
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Over £1000 worth of damage was done to groceries at the G. and G Store, next door to the Commonwealth Bank on…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Torrential rain has caused officials to cancel two racing fixtures…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Fierce storms, which have lashed the New South Wales coast for the past 24 hours, have disorganised rail, road and air traffic, flooded…
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Gale-force winds and biting rain have battered Wollongong district unceasingly since early on Wednesday night, only three days after a weekend of flooding…
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Floodlights will be switched on n the reconstructed Showground at Albion Park for the first time on the night of Coronation Day. The lights will be used for the…
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LONDON, Mon.—Gale warnings were signalled last night to more than 200 ships from the giant…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deputation to Meet Council on Fairy Meadow Floodings
Flooding of Fairy Meadow properties and homes during heavy rains will be discussed early next month when a deputation from the Mount Ousley Progress…
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Flooding of Fairy Meadow properties and homes during heavy rains will be discussed early next month when a deputation from the Mount Ousley Progress Association meets Greater Wollongong Council's Central Zone…
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TOKYO, Sun.—Police reported today that 263 were dead on flooded Kyushu Island, in Southern…
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Temperamental Gar Mulloy, America's top-ranking amateur tennis player, stormed about the…
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TOKYO, Mon.—More than 1,000,000 Japanese were homeless today as disastrous floods continued to swamp the whole of the southern island of Kyushu. Police said 423 people…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Havoc Over Korea—struggle Continues in Mud
SEOUL, Tues.—United Nations and Communi[?]tison officers will meet again at Panmunjom tomorrow at the Communists' request…
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TOKYO, Sun.—More than 6000 Jap-anese were reported dead or missing to-day in sudden violent floods that swallowed whole villages about 200 miles…
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BERLIN, Tues.—More than 6,000 Communist demonstrators stormed food distribution centres in West Berlin to-day…
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SEOUL, Tues.—The United States Secretary of State (Mr. John Foster Dulles) arrived in Seoul today to confer with President Syngman Rhee on post-armistice American-Korean relations…
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TEHERAN, Wed.,—Two hundred and fifty people are missing in floods which swept the Caspian village…
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DALLAS, Mon.—Floods sent 4500 people scurrying from their homes in Texas yesterday…
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