Weather To Be Cooler After Thunderstorms
Isolated thunderstorms, dust and cooler conditions will replace warm spring temperatures in N.S.W. soon, says Sydney…
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Floods & storms, 1948
311 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16
Victorian Gale Deaths Now 4
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Four people have lost their lives in the gale which has raged since the week-end…
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THE taxation relief provided by Mr. Chifley in his Budget may be regarded as a belated acknowledgment of the burdens which thepeople of this country are continuing to carry…
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NEW DELHI, Sept. 10. A.A.P.—Floods have obliterated about 1000 villages in the Benares, Ghazipur and Ballia districts of the…
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TOKYO, Sept. 12. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Fifty-three persons were killed, 50 were injured, and 117 are missing in Nagasaki and Saga…
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Today's dull, humid weather may be followed by thunderstorms and showers towards night, according to the…
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SHANGHAI, Tues. (A.A.P.): About 55,000,000 people, one-eighth of China's population, are homeless as a result of floods and civil war. The Ministry of Social Welfare says that civil war re-…
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Mr. Cyril Griffiths's forecast for Newcastle and the Coalfields to-day is—Fine and warmer, with patches of fog along the coast in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—"If you have not a place by the end of the year you can all come and storm my office," the Minister for…
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LONDON, Sept. 15. A.A.P.—One of the worst rainstorms for 30 years flooded roads throughout the west of Scotland, cut telephone…
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ROME, Sept. 15. A.A.P.—Torrential rains caused floods which made hundreds homeless in Northern Italy…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).— Floods in all parts of Cumberland and the border district have ruined harvests…
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NEW YORK, Sept. 16. A.A.P—The Portuguese auxiliary fishing schooner Gaspar is believed to have gone down in very rough seas,…
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NEW YORK, September 17. A.A.P.—A coastguard and two merchant ships cooperated in violent seas to rescue 79 seamen…
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TOKYO, Sept. 17. A.A.P.—Between 1800 and 2000 persons are dead, injured, or missing as a result of the flooding of Ichinoseki City, in northern Honshu, to-day…
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SYDNEY: In the first uncontrolled land sales in Sydney since the war values today leapt above blackmarket prices. Two thousand buyers crowded the rooms of…
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SYDNEY: Dealers to-day reported that used cars were "flooding" the market to such an…
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SYDNEY: The mission motorship Devare (35 tons) bound from Sydney to Rabaul with a crew of eight aboard,…
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Thunderstorms, accompanied by a cool change, are likely tonight, according: to Mr. R. W. Parker of Merewether…
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LISMORE, Sunday.—With little rain at the week-end, floodwaters in the Billinudgel district, near Murwillumbah, have almost receded…
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