30 Homes Unroofed By Storm
BRISBANE, Sunday.—About 30 houses, the police station, the old town hall and a racing stable were unroofed by a tropical storm which…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Heavy Damage Caused By Country Storms
SYDNEY, Monday.—The roof of the Rural Bank Chambers was carried away, late crops were heavily damaged, fences blown away…
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WASHINGTON, June 5. A.A.P.—President Truman's State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress yesterday drew a storm of Republican opposition…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 6. A.A.P.—Some of the worst floods in 10 years left hundreds of families homeless in two mid-west States…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Five homes were unroofed and many others partly unroofed when a severe storm with wind of gale force struck North Tamworth this afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two Government officials-one from the Building Materials Department and the other from Social Services—…
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Port Stephens Shire Council decided yesterday to make a second approach to the State Government to have boats provided for use in…
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Although four dredges are working to capacity, it will be another twelve months at least before Newcastle Harbor has been cleared of the silt washed down by the floods last June. The District Engineer of the…
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LONDON.—So much rain fell at Bexhill (Sussex) recently, that an exhibition golf match had to be abandoned…
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Freddie Mills may be helping Joey Maxim to something a little heavier when they clash for the world light-heavyweight title in London, but at this luncheon in Soho things were friendly…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 15. A.A.P.—At least 27 people were killed and thousands made homeless by violent blizzards, heavy falls of snow and floods in the United States…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Traffic disabilities and flooding of low lying rivers were likely between Bowen and Maryborough in the…
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A southerly change and the possibility of thunderstorms are forecast by the Sydney Weather Bureau…
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CARS ON ICE.—Cars under a three-foot blanket of snow near the main business district of Sandpoint, I[?] (U.S.A.). The snowfall of 38 inches cut traffic to a one-way flow, and forced schools to call a temporary holiday…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The Weather Bureau to-night issued flood warnings for all Queensland districts…
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BRISBANE: Huge areas of Queensland, covering the central interior and the central coast and southern interior, are being flooded by lashing rains which are preceding the cyclone now centred between Tambo and Mitchell in central Queensland…
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Three men are feared drowned in a flooded creek northern New South Wales and an Ipswich postman was electrocuted as a result of the intense cyclonic rainstorm…
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A north-easterly gale which lashed the coast last night was estimated by Shoal Bay residents to have exceeded in violence the 80-mile-an-hour blow experienced there several years ago. The maximum wind velocity…
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Searchers early today recovered the body of one of the three men who were drowned when they were swept off their horses by racing floodwaters in a creek at Lionsville, 60 miles from Grafton,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Eight people died in the cyclone which swept Queensland and part of New South Wales yesterday and early to-day…
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