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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1946

212 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 11

Amusements “Summer Storm” at Hoyts

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 6

“Summer Storm,” which ends its run at Hoyts to-night, is a stark, intensely dramatic story of a Russian girl whose beauty destroys the men whom first in [?]…

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Flood Sufferers Claim £44,000 MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 2

Applications for relief have now been received from 100 flood sufferers in the western district, und the claims total £44,000…

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Sydney Has Bleak Day Rain and Gale Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 April 1946 · page 5

Cyclonic weather, which gripped the NSW court today, is expected to case off tomorrow and tie replaced by moderate conditions…

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Flooding Danger Passed SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 April 1946 · page 2

This week’s cyclonic disturbances along the coast caused damage in the Gosford district estimated al over £100,000…

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Latest News Heavy Rain in Sydney Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 April 1946 · page 3

Flood dangers in the Gosford district are increasing as heavy rain continues to fall. Twenty inches have been recorded since Sunday and…

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Flood Damage Is Heavy Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 1

Floods in the Hunter, Newcastle and coalfields districts have ruined thousands of pounds’ world of crops, washed away miles of fencing and…

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Heavy Thunderstorms Deluge District Rain Welcomed By Farmers

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 1

Rain, badly needed by farmers, came to Albury district yesterday in sudden plenty. Violent thunder-storms deluged the greater part of the district, washing away fences and bringing down telephone and telegraph…

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Golf Title Played During Heavy Storm CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 6

With visibility limited during the playing of the last three holes to 50 yards by a heavy hail storm, D. W. Bacilli (Vic ), to-day won the amateur championship of…

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Violent Storm in Melbourne Houses Struck By Lightning MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 April 1946 · page 1

During a violent electrical storm which caused a deluge over the city and suburbs this morning a house in Crazier street, East Coburg, was…

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8000 Marooned by Floods MADRID

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 1

Flood waters from the Segura river have inundated tho cities of Alquarias and Santa Cruz, where 80 per cent of the houses collapsed…

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Athletes Praise Sports Ground Floodlighting Proposed

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 5

Athletes who bad competed all over Australia said after the Easter Saturday sports at Albury that the sports ground was the best they had ever…

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Indies Rice for India Offer Causes Storm of Controversy Batavia

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 1

Premier Sjahrir’s statement that Indonesia could supply India with 500,000 tons of rice in exchange for textiles, has stirred a storm of…

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Telegrams Flooding, Into Gold Boom Town Bar in Local Hotel Becomes a Stock Exchange Odendaals Rust

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 1

The Mayor of this gold boom town has received a telegram from an engineering firm in Sydney asking him to notify the Interested…

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Dry Clothes for Flood Victims

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 4

Gifts of dry clothes were welcomed by washed-out Narrabeen families sheltering in Brookvale showground. Mrs Fraser here tries on some garments for Kevin, 4: Terry. 3: and Gay. 21 months…

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Weddings Gale—just

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 May 1946 · page 4

The marriage was celebrated at St Luke’s Lutheran Church, Albury, on Tuesday afternoon, April 23, of Elsie Ada, younger daughter of Mr C. Just,…

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Violent Storms in India LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 1

Damage, which it is feared may be considerable, was done to crops by floods and rains resulting from violent electrical storms in the…

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Opposition Criticised on Egyptian Stand Blamey’s Comments May Cause Storm London

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 May 1946 · page 1

“It might be hoped that the Opposition would now permit the delicate and vital negotiations on Egypt to go forward without fresh…

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Sailors Drowned; Subs Break Loose in Storm London

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 1

Seventeen Japanese submarines being towed out to sea off Japan to be sunk by the Australian destroyer Quiberon and the Indian sloop…

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Floods Make Thousands Homeless LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 1

Reuter’s correspondent in Baghdad states that thousands are homeless as a result of the overflowing of the great twin rivers, the Euphrates and the…

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Hungry Italian Women Storm Bakery Bread Rationing in South Africa London

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 1

Reuter’s correspondent in Rome says that a mob of 500 women stormed the local bakery in the town of Ascoll and carried off over…

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