Launch Sunk in Cyclone
The cyclone off the Queensland coast swept seas through the Ocean Beach bar and across the Broadwater at Southport,…
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Floods & storms, 1946
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 16
Floods Receding in North Cyclone Now Exhausted in Tasman Sea
Flood waters on the North Coast of New South Wales are now receding. All danger seems to have passed but the damage to crops and property is expected to be heavy…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Milk will be rationed in Sydney and Newcastle as from to-morrow morning. Householders and shops will be cut…
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HOBART.—Death roll in the Tasmanian floods reached four when Gordon Lovell (17), of Mountain River, slipped off a log…
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At Right: SUDDEN RISE of flood waters at Kempsey, when the Macleay River overflowed its banks, was responsible for these…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The immediate release of quantities of earth-moving machinery to assist flood repairs by shire councils in…
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SYDNEY.—Unless a cyclone sweeping down from the north quickly passes away from the north coast of N.S.W., further disastrous floods are likely. Northern towns which have not yet recovered from recent…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—With wide areas still laid waste from the disastrous floods last week, the North Coast of New South…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—With a cyclone sweeping down from the north-east and rivers on the North Coast still rising, the Weather Bureau to-day issued a warning that the danger of further floods was imminent. Rain has fallen…
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The cyclone operating off Northern New South Wales was moving down the coast, travelling south-east and with its centre out to sea, said Mr…
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SYDNEY: The cyclone that threatened to cause more floods on the North Coast has moved out to sea…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Premier (Mr. McKell) announced to-day that a scheme had been approved, and would apply immediately to relieve…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—After nearly sinking in a storm on the way from Sydney, the Navy tug Wybia arrived at Port Melbourne this…
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WASHINGTON.—The Army Signal Corps has developed a means of locating ocean storms up to 2000 miles away by…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—Some bulldozers and other earth moving plant have been made available, for flood relief. If this is insufficient…
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LONDON, April 12.—With millions of pounds worth of spurious notes circulating throughout Europe, the police of eight countries have united…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Flogs Newcastle Beach
Top: The storm which battered Newcastle yesterday piled up the sand round the seating by the rotunda at Newcastle Beach Right: The weather was so wild that the bathing pavilion was deserted…
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SYDNEY.—Whipped by the south-easterly gale, mountainous seas are pounding the coast and wide damage has been…
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Crashing from the cliff above the Newcastle Bogey Hole during the storm early this morning, a huge boulder weighing more than two tons wrecked the residence there and severely…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Had "Wildest" Night On Record 80 M.P.H. Gale: Four Inches of Rain
With Nobbys recording an 80 m.p.h. hurricane and torrential rain, Newcastle spent one of its wildest nights on record. Flails recorded at Nobbys since the…
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