Serum On Way To Sick Woman In Flooded Town
BRISBANE, Monday. — Hospital doctors fought for the life of a 30-year-old woman at flood-ringed Fully while a plane took blood…
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Floods & storms, 1948
311 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 16
Flood Warnings On South Coast
Warnings that floods were likely on the South Coast following torrential rains were issued b)y the Weather Bureau yesterday. Falls of two to four inches…
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Simultaneous with a Weather Bureau flood warning to people on the South Coast of N.S.W. today, came news that a new cyclone was developing off Queensland and a gloomy announcement by the celebrated Queensland weather expert…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A nurse and three children were injured, and trees were uprooted by a storm which swept Sandgate, near…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police in country areas had been instructed to grant assistance to people who suffered injury or damage during…
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LONDON, Wed. (O.S.R.).—Flood warnings have been issued over many parts of Britain as swollen rivers threaten…
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LONDON, Jan. 14. A.A.P.—Floods in Derbyshire, the worst reported in 70 years, and in York-shire, Mid-Wales and Herefordshire,…
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Flood warnings were issued in Gosford-Woy Woy district last night. The Central Coast had five and…
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A 45-miles-an-hour southerly gale lashed the coast today and the heavy seas forced the coastal vessel Bangalow to put into Newcastle Harbor for shelter…
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The North Coast steamer, Bangalow (640 tons), which sought shelter in Newcastle early on Saturday morning, because of bad…
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SYDNEY—Incessant rain this morning washed oat many sporting fixtures—tennis, cricket and tonight's Harold Park dog…
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The State Weather Bureau forecast for Hastings, Hunter and Manning is: Scattered thunderstorms in afternoon or evening,…
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Mr. Cyril Griffiths's forecast for Newcastle, the Coalfields and Upper Hunter to-day is—Fine and hot at first, with scattered thunderstorms…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The worst flooding in 40 years occurred at Sandgate and other coastal centres yesterday. Water was…
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SYDNEY.—The Weather Bureau this morning issued a warning to shipping that a cyclone, which was 150 miles north-east of Lord Howe Island at 9 a.m., is moving south…
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The Weather Bureau in Sydney expects south-west to south-east winds to reach moderate gale force along the central section of the N.S.W. coast today…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— Air services were interrupted by weather to-day and the Weather Bureau warned that gales and rough seas…
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SINGAPORE, Feb. 1.—Land slides blocking the railway and floodwaters on the road have again disrupted land communications…
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PARIS, Feb. 2. A.A.P.—At least 100 people were killed, several hundred were injured and 50 are missing on Reunion Island, in the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — A cyclone that swept through Seymour district to-night did many thousands pounds' worth of damage…
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