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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1946

212 stories in Murray's papers · page 10 of 11

Heavy Damage Caused by Storm Tamworth

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 November 1946 · page 1

Widespread damage was caused when a gale swept the north and northwest areas this afternoon. Homes in at least two localities were almost…

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Gale Causes Much Damage Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 November 1946 · page 4

Yesterday’s gale caused widespread damage to telephone, telegraph, and broadcasting plant in northern NSW and southern…

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Violent Thunderstorm at Broken Hill Broken Hill

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 November 1946 · page 1

Following a heavy dust storm during the morning there was a violent thunderstorm early this afternoon with small hailstones. About half an inch of…

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Storms and Possibilities

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 November 1946 · page 4

The sun is still showing a considerable amount of southern activity and I remarked a cable, item agreeing with the conclusions…

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Gale Devastates Bourke Sydney, Monday

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 November 1946 · page 6

Roofs and verandahs were torn from buildings, windows were shattered, trees were uprooted, and telephone poles and sign posts were knocked down yesterday…

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Opposition Storms Electoral Bureau LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 November 1946 · page 2

The Belgrade radio announced last night that the headquarters of the Rumanian Electoral Bureau in Bucharest had been “storned” by…

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Heavy Rain Storms in S.A. ADELAIDE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 2

Heavy rain which followed thunderstorms over roost of South Australia last night did not cause much damage to wheat crops because it was…

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Storm Centre in Washington

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 1

LIEUT.-COL. ELLIOT ROOSEVELT, son of the late President Roosevelt, who is alleged to have made pro-Russian comments at a US Embassy party in…

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Severe Storm Near Brisbane BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 5

Train services were dislocated, roof were torn oil houses and telegraphic and telephonic communication was cut off by a severe electrical storm which…

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Cyclonic Storm at Lismore LISMORE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 December 1946 · page 2

A cyclonic storm which struck the North Coast late yesterday, unroofed several houses, uprooted trees and tossed a river boat about. At one time, the wind…

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Luggers and Lives Lost Cyclone and 21 Inches of Rain Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 December 1946 · page 1

Four privately-owned pearling luggers valued at 11500 to £2000 and two island industries cutters, worth £300 and £500, were reported today…

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More Floods in England London

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 December 1946 · page 3

Several areas in England are still flooded as a result of last week’s rain and mere was further rain in the Thames Valley on Sunday, although other parts of the…

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Deluge in 15 MINUTES Damage At Brocklesby

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 December 1946 · page 5

One hundred points or rain—more than five a minute—fell in parts of Brocklesby district in just over a quarter of an hour on Saturday…

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Violent Storm in Brisbane Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 December 1946 · page 1

Thousands of pounds’ worth of damage was caused in Brisbane and suburbs when the worst hurricane storm in Brisbane’s history broke from the south-east at 4.35…

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Storm Within Labor Party Bretton Woods Monetary Agreement Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 December 1946 · page 6

The Bretton Woods Monetary Agreement has plunged the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party into the greatest domestic turmoil since…

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Test May Be Wash-out Brisbane Oval FLOODED(From J. Mathews)BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 December 1946 · page 1

A storm which broke over Brisbane today flooded the cricket ground within a quarter of an hour. Hailstones, larger than eggs,…

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Violent Storm Strikes Orange SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 December 1946 · page 2

A violent thunderstorm struck Orange at 4.30 p.m. this afternoon, accompanied by torrential rain and terrarising lightning…

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Storm Felled Trees

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 1

This large tree on “Mintara,” the property of Mr E. Ludlow, Huon, was one of several which were blown over by gale-like wind in a violent storm over the district on Thursday afternoon…

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Tender Blown Off Viaduct at Storm Peak

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 December 1946 · page 1

A Victorian railways guard Was killed in a dramatic accident at the height of Thursday afternoon’s fierce storm on the Huon…

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Housewives Storm Parliament in Budapest BUDAPEST

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 December 1946 · page 1

In an hysterical demonstration against the acute shortage of potatoes, flour and eggs seven persons were injured when 5,000 people, mostly women,…

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