Tents Topple, House Unroofed In Gale
Yesterday's gale blew down 11 of the 13 marquees erected for the 150th Anniversary Industrial Fair to be held at Newcastle Showground. The scale model of Awaba…
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Floods & storms, 1947
365 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 19
Union Game Under Floodlights
Waratah and Mayfield East will play an exhibition match under floodlights at Newcastle Showground on Wednesday night. Newcastle Rugby…
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In addition to the replay of the final between Wanderers and St. Patrick's, at the Sports Ground tomorrow, Newcastle…
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Today is Sports Day in the Celebrations. The N.S.W. Professional Golf Championship commenced at Cockle Creek and a varied programme will be held at the Showground, including a number of games under floodlights…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A gale warning to shipping in South Australian, Victorian and West Tasmanian waters was issued to-day…
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SYDNEY: Gales, which have lashed parts of N.S.W., Victoria and South Australia for the past two days, have…
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THE WEATHER was sultry and we were listless as our ship glided across the desolate blue water. We were all weary from our tedious,…
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SYDNEY.—Good rains should fall in N.S.W. in October, but the following four months will be dry, said the Queensland…
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TOKYO, Sept. 16.—Two thousand houses in Kurihashi, outside Tokyo, were flooded by flood waters to-day, following a break in a river…
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LONDON, Sept. 17. A.A.P.—Floods in the southern part of the United Provinces (India) have driven one million people from their homes…
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TOKYO, Sept.18.—The death roll in the floods following Tuesday's devastating typhoon which swept the island of Honshu, may total more than 2000, according to Japanese officials…
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BOMBAY, Sept. 18. A.A.P.— Floods sweeping across Chittagon affected hundreds of thousands [?] people, and destroyed crops over a…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The roof and part of the first floor of a modern home at Chatswood collapsed during a sharp…
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TOKYO, Sept. 19.—Half a million inhabitants of the north-western suburbs of Tokyo are threatened by the latest flood development, which, is a divergence of the overflowing lone River into a…
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TOKYO, Sept. 21—The First Unites States Cavalry Division stated that 2000 Japanese dead were in its area as a result of the…
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SYDNEY.—All hands turned to when boxes containing two racehorses worth thousands of pounds were swept some feet…
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TOKYO, September 22. A.A.P.— Incomplete flood casualty figures is sued to-day gave the number of dead as 836, injured 1581, and 1171…
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MIAMI (Florida), Sept. 23. A.A.P. —The Weather Bureau hoisted storm signals to-day as the second tropical storm in a week hit the west coach…
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LONDON, Sept. 23.—Abolition of the basic petrol ration from October 1—one of the Cabinet's measures to save…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday.—"A severe economic storm appears to be threatening," the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank (Mr. Eccles) said yesterday. Addressing supervisors of the State Banks Association today, he…
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