Heat, Storms, Floods Mar Week-end Newcastle Swelters Under 95.6 Degrees
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 December 1947 · page 1
The temperature of 95.6 degrees recorded in Newcastle at 2.30 p.m. yesterday was the highest since January 29. The highest State reading was 96 degrees at Lismore…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 1
Heavy rain on Christmas Eve, topped off by showers yesterday morning, flooded many tents at Lake Macquarie camps. In the night a number were blown over. Campers on the flat, such Pelican,…
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The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 3
Threatened one-day hold-ups in coal mines and postal services and the prospect of trouble in the clothing trades industry are the early clouds on the 1948 industrial horizon. A mining stoppage is feared on…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 3
PERTH: Though the cyclone which has been moving along the north coast appears to have struck the coast in the vicinity…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 December 1947 · page 1
Fierce gales unroofed houses and damaged property in Melbourne and at Bendigo yesterday. A man was fatally injured and others suffered minor injuries from accidents caused by the storms…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 December 1947 · page 3
LONDON, Dec. 30.—Rivers, swollen by heavy rain and melting snows, have flooded towns and villages over wide areas in eastern France and western Germany, smashing bridges and closing roads and railways…
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