Stop Press Liner in Gale
ADELAIDE The overseas liner, Madura, while on its way from Hobart, ran into an 80 m.p.h. gale crossing to Port Adelaide. Waves 40 feet…
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Floods & storms, 1947
365 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 19
Cattle Marooned by Floods in Victoria; People Evacuated
MELBOURNE: A sharp rise in the Glenelg River over-night at Casterton in the western district has caused extensive flooding throughout the town, and the river is now about two feet below the record floods of last year…
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The Hunter District Water Board advised Greater Newcastle Council last night that it the maintenance of stormwater channels in the Wallsend,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale Blows Railway Shed Into Path of Train; House Blown Over
SYDNEY: A railway waiting shed was blown off the platform and smashed to pieces by a goods train, a house was blown over and several others unroofed by a gale which swept through the Gerringong district early today…
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Weston branch of the Red Cross Society raised £50/18/ for British Flood Relief The money was sent to headquarters…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Shortly after 4 p.m. to-day floodwaters began to fall at Casterton, on the Glenelg River which has been extensively…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Kiandra and surrounding districts are almost isolated following heavy snowfalls, accompanied by a 60-miles-an-hour blizzard throughout to-day and to-night…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Heavy rain still fell to-night in flooded areas in the western district. At Casterton, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods Make 17 Families Homeless
MELBOURNE: Another 17 families are homeless in the Casterton floods in Western Victoria. The town had its worst…
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On a roof frame and in the teeth of the westerly, a reconstruction trainee yesterday went through an examination. He is Mr. J. C. Dare (left), a Merewether returned soldier, who is being trained in plumbing under the re-establishment scheme. The examiner on roof of this house under construction at New Lambton is Mr. J. P. Adder ton. All trainees must undergo periodic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →10-Year Plan to End U.S. Flood Damage
WASHINGTON, July 17. A.A.P.—The President (Mr. Truman) asked Congress to-day to launch a 10-year programmne to end the floods which,…
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SHANGHAI, July 18. A A.P.—Thousands of flood victims in Kwantung province are eating wild grass and roots, reports Kay Booth, an…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Flood waters in north-west and south-west Victoria have subsided considerably since yesterday…
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The Premier of Queensland (Mr. Hanlon), at left, braces himself against a synthetic cyclone produced aero engines during the filming of the Australian film "Sons of Matthew." The producer (Mr. Charles Chauvel) gives him a guiding hand…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Three New Zealand racehorses were battered to death on board the freighter Waitaki in violent storms…
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TOKYO, July 23.—Thirty-nine persons were killed, hundreds injured and thousands are homeless as a result of torrential rains which struck…
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LONDON, July 24. A.A.P.—Over 9700 parcels of food and clothing from the Australian Red Cross, for British flood victims, arrived at…
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Flood-distressed areas of England are now receiving full benefit of food and clothing relief from the Australian Red Cross. This picture shows a Clapton housewife, Mrs. Seiley, being presented with a gift food parcel from the Secretary-General of the A.RC. (Captain A. J. Brown). In addition to parcels, the Society is distributing £300,000 worth of food and clothing to flood victims…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mock Cyclone For Australian Film
MOCK CYCLONE is staged by the film unit in the jangle at Canungra Creek (Queensland) during a scene in Charles Chauvel's "Sons of Matthew." The scene was shot in the presence of the Premier of Queensland (Mr. Hanlon) and more than 100 guests…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blizzard Sweeps Alps; Towns Isolated Air Services Delayed By Strong Gale
SYDNEY, Monday.—Heavy snowstorms driven by a severe blizzard to-day isolated many to was on the Southern Alps. The wintry blast swept the remainder of the State. A continuance of these conditions is forecast…
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