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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1941

58 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 3 of 3

Sailing Through Storms

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 8

"What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, so pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag and smile, smile, smile"-- and think about…

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Safest Plages in a Thunderstorm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1941 · page 2

What is the safest place in a thunderstorm? Lightning will do the most freakish things according to its mood and voltage. It will wreck a home with…

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Sand Storm at Sea

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 5 July 1941 · page 4

This sounds ridiculous, but it is true. In 1852 the Montreal Morn was making her usual voyage through the Red Sea, and to the surprise of…

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Mrs. E. J. Storm

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 16 July 1941 · page 2

Residents of Taree received a shock on Tuesday morning when the word passed round that Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Storm, wife of Mr. E. J. Storm, the well…

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Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Storm

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 16 July 1941 · page 3

Yesterday (Tuesday) morning the citizens of Taree were shocked to hear of the death of Mrs. E. J. Storm, wife of Mr. E. J. Storm,…

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Mrs. Jane Elizabeth Storm

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 18 July 1941 · page 4

On Tuesday morning last the citizens of Taree were shocked to bear of the death of Mrs. E. J. Storm, wife of Mr. E. J. Storm,…

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Severe Dust Storms in West. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 5

Dust storms were reported from many parts of Western N.S.W. yesterday. At Wilcannia the sun was blotted out and it was impossible to…

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Mr. Inigo Jones Expects Heavy Rain

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 3 October 1941 · page 2

The well-known meteorologist, Mr. Inigo Jones, said on Wednesday that if, as he expects, there are very heavy rains within the next ten days, and…

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Sydney Battered by Gale. Good Rain on Manning

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 4 October 1941 · page 6

October was ushered in with a 65 m.p.h. gale, accompanied by heavy rain, which swept Sydney for 14 hours on Wednesday. Falls of from…

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Flood Protection Feature

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 8 October 1941 · page 4

From Blair & Stuckey, Consulting Engineers, that a main trunk sewer line had to be taken through an Eden-street culvert in such a way that the…

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Flood of Clock Orders. British Makers Busy

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 11 October 1941 · page 2

British clockmakers are the latest witnesses against Nazi sea claims. With a loss as low as from one-half to two per cent., they are continuing…

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Tobruk. War Storms Gathering. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 17 October 1941 · page 5

In an address last night, Lieut.-General Sir Iven Mackay, G.O.C. of the Australian home forces, revealed that many of the men of the N.S.W…

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Severe Storm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1941 · page 4

After a strong north-east blow on Sunday, the wind veered to a hot northerly and then a westerly. Just after 5 o'clock the threatened storm…

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Civic Theatre Attractions. "Storm Over Bengal."

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 10

Glorious in its sweep of exciting adventure in North-West Indian farflung outpost of Empire and moving in its depiction of galiantry and…

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Civic Theatre Attractions "Storm Over Bengal."

The Northern Champion · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 4

Glorious in its sweep of exciting adventure in north-west India, far-flung outpost of Empire, and moving in its depiction of gallantry and heroism is…

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The Sixty-Four Flood

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 3

Mr. J. Allen, pulling down an old house in Frederickton recently found a scrap of an old Macleay paper giving some particulars of the big flood in…

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A Violent Storm

The Northern Champion · Saturday 22 November 1941 · page 2

Following a priond of en[?] humid [?] a violent tainst[?] swept over Taree at about [?] p.m. on Thursday. The rain was for[?] in character…

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Terrific Storm. Damage by Hail at Nabiac

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 22 November 1941 · page 6

A particularly severe hail storm struck Nabiac about 1.15 on Thursday afternoon. All the windows at the residence at…

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