Heavy Rain In Queensland
BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Tropical downpours yielding up to four inches to-day brought the first drought relict to…
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Floods & storms, 1952
437 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 22
Ohio River In Flood
NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.): The Ohio River, in flood, forced about 2000 persons to flee from their…
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The storm arose one peaceful day. When everything was quiet and still,…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 28. A.A.P.—Flood damage mounted to-day in four States as the Ohio River and tributary…
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A cataclysm more terrible than the Biblical flood will convulse the earth in 570 years' time, according to Signor Raffaele Bendandi, a 56-year-old Italian scientist. Signor Bendandi claims to…
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An enabling Act would have to be passed by the State Government before steps could be taken to…
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WELLINGTON, Feb. 5. A.A.P.-Reuter. — Food supplies were dropped from a plane to-day to workmen and…
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Speers Point Ratepayers' Progress Association, by petition, will-ask the Federal Government to use the War Risk…
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Telephone services between Maitland and Allynbrook-Eccleston district were still out of order yesterday as the…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Europe's 10-day storm death toll has risen to 76. Five more people were reported killed yesterday in…
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BOSTON, Mon. (A.A.P.): The worst storms of the winter in north-eastern U.S. crippled transportation…
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Local flooding was feared on northern coastal areas of New South Wales if heavy rain continued, a Weather…
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NEW YORK Wed. (A.A.P.).—A sloop with six men aboard is missing in heavy seas off the Florida…
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WHEN the Maitland areas were held in the grip of flood there were assurances that "not a moment would be lost" in instituting vigorous control measures to…
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SYDNEY: Insufficient money and not a forgetfulness of the damage caused by the 1949 and 1950 Maitland floods is now the cause on delay in Government plans for flood mitigation in the Hunter Valley, the Minister for Conservation (Mr. G. Weir)…
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Maitland, Singleton and Lower Hunter Councils had agreed to contribute to the cost of maintaining flood-warning…
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NORFOLK (Virginia), March 12 (A.A.P.).—A gale raging off Cape Henry has cracked the hulls of two…
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AUCKLAND, March 17. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A large whaling fleet, believed to be Japanese, has been anchored in…
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WIESBADEN, (Reuter): The, mission to Moscow of Dr. Martin Niemoeller, head of the Protestant Church in the State of Hesse, has raised one of the greatest storms of controversy in Germany since the war…
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BRISBANE. Monday. — Floods have broken the worst drought in the Gympic district since 1902…
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