Snow, Hail, Gale, In Victoria
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Victoria was hit last night and to-day by heavy rain, hail, snow and Antarctic winds reaching gale force…
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Floods & storms, 1951
334 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 17
Creek Floods Street
Lake-street was being flooded by water from Stoney Creek at high tide, Stoney Creek Progress Association was told…
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TOKIO, Tues. (A.A.P-Reuter): U.N. troops yesterday resumed their advance toward the Hwachon River reservoir as floodwaters released by the enemy's opening of the reservoir gates receded…
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Homes in Irvine-street, Wallsend, were being flooded after every downpour because a drain at the rear of their properties had become…
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LONDON, April 10. A.A.P.—The Government announced that Spring crop sowing was "seriously behind schedule" because of the continued…
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LONDON, Sat (A.A.P).—To-day's race meeting at Newbury, which included the Newbury Spring Cup has been…
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Nobbys registered 45 points of rain in the heavy storm which broke over Newcastle shortly before daylight this…
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WELLINGTON, April 19. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Christchurch and Timaru were both isolated by road and rail to-day as a result of the most…
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WELLINGTON, Apr. 22. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Hours of effort were needed in a gale to-day to berth the 22,000-ton liner Rangitane, after an…
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WELLINGTON, Apr. 23. A.A.P.- Reuter. — The largest anthracite nine in New Zealand was wiped out by the recent South Island…
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PERTH, Monday.— Two four-year-old children drowned in a flooded street. They were Patsy Marshall and…
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Storms are expected to follow this morning's bright sunshine. Mr. R. W. Parker, of…
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LONDON. Mon. (A.A.P.). — Godfrey Roberts won che English Amateur Golf Championship at Tunstanto, Norfolk,…
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HONGKONG, May 2.. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Thousands of people in the South China province of Kwangtung have been made homeless by…
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Port Stephens Shire Council has called for an estimate of cost for complete repairs to Wallalong-Woodville floodbanks…
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Kearsley Shire Council last night agreed to a request by Lower-Hunter Shire Council to meet half the cost of providing…
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Despite the clear autumn tints of the countryside at Morpeth yesterday, the important part of this picture is the cartload of…
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Three Newcastle seamen examine yesterday a hole in a lifeboat of the freighter River Fitzroy, which has just returned from a trip to the Antarctic…
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Six members of the crew of the River Fitzroy had a dangerous three-hour battle to lash down a Lifebeat smashed loose in high seas in the Antarctic on the ship's return trip from Macquarie Island…
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A FAMILY of nine which had been living in St. Mary's Parish Hall, Maitland, for four months won a three-bedroom…
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