Fires, Floods On Queensland Coast
BRISBANE: While fires raged along the Queensland coastline north from Maryborough during the week-end,…
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Floods & storms, 1948
311 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 16
Flood Relief Plans For Hunter Valley
The Hunter River Flood Mitigation Committee has submitted to the State Government a long' range plan for flood relief, involving an expenditure of £8,500,000 over 20 years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The World of Stamps U.S. Commemorative Flood Continues: 30 "Specials" In 1948
Special and commemorative U.S. stamps continue in a constant stream with new issues on sale at the rate of about one a fortnight. The total issued and yet to…
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The example given by columnist William Crawford appears to refute the Flood Mitigation Committee's…
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A MOVE by the Lord Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. Quinlan) for a "short cut" in ideas of the Hunter River Flood…
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A local committee consisting of representatives of the 21 organisations present was formed at a conference at West Maitland yesterday to press for the implementation of the programme of works…
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SYDNEY: Thunder and showers are likely this evening, the Weather Bureau said to-day. Warm, sultry weather is…
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SYDNEY.—A heavy thunder[?]rom fell at Randwick today after the running of the Widlen Stakes and before the…
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AUCKLAND, Oct. 11. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Captain Spurr, of the Palana, which is towing the Fernmoor to Auckland, advised that the…
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The steamer Pacific Fortune gave bearings by radar to other ships off Nobbys yesterday, during the dust storm which…
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The 127-ton tug Skilful is running wild in a westerly gale off the coast, more than 100 miles north of Newcastle, with a steamer and a tug trying to get her under control. Round from Lae to Sydney…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—While New South Wales had fine, clear weather to-day, gales and heavy rain continued in Tasmania and…
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SYDNEY: A woman said today that what she believed was the Lutana flew inland off its course into a severe electrical storm about two hours before the airliner crashed. Mrs. Mabel Willock of Mal-…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A woman told the Air Court of Inquiry to-day that at 6.15 p.m. on the day of the Lutana air disaster she had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →60 m.p.h. Gales In Victoria
MELBOURNE: Sixty-mile-an-hour gales in wild icy blasts, hailstorms so thick that street gutters have been choked, and heavy boisterous seas on bay-side foreshores with intermittent bursts of sunshine have…
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HOBART, Thursday.—The proposed search by a R.A.A.F. Catalina for the overdue fishing boat Voana and its crew of three was…
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SYDNEY: Driven by fierce westerly gusts, in one of the wildest morning gales Sydney harbor has experienced, the British motorship Hopepeak (5179 tons) crashed out of control into Cremorne ferry wharf today…
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While snow fell in an area embraced by Lithgow, Young and Kosciusko yesterday, duststorms in the western areas of the State…
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GRAFTON, Sunday.—Field tests of a high frequency radio network for use in flood emergency are to be undertaken on the North Coast…
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