£50,000 Storm Damage
TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—Damage estimated between £40,000 and £50,000 was caused to homes, stores and other…
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Floods & storms, 1953
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Storm's Damage
BULAWAYO, South Rhodesia.—Hail as big as eggs recently broke 60 windows, flattened a…
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DARWIN, Sunday.âSixty Tennant Creek residents were stranded seven miles north of the town when the Tennant Creek suddenly flooded the North-South Highway…
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DARWIN — Tennant's Creek held its first boat race yesterday, made possible by unprecedented floods. It was probably the most unusual in Australia…
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LONDON, Thursday: Methodist preacher Dr W. E. Sanger, former president of the Methodist Conference, on Sunday made an impassioned plea for a gigantic British religious revival. Preaching from Central…
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Just two and a half years after the 1950 flood Maitland City Council has received a bill from the…
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Grass is beginning to grow abundantly in Australian cattle regions where barely a week ago the earth was parched with a two-year drought…
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SINGAPORE, January 8. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Record floods following three days incessant rain have caused heavy…
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DARWIN, Friday.—The flooded Finke River to-day cut the railway line between Adelaide and Alice Springs. About 50 passengers on…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 11. A.A.P.—The worst storms of the winter, which continued to sweep over widely scattered sections of the Unites States yesterday,…
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LONDON, Jan. 11. A.A.P.—Coronation songs are flooding London's popular song publishers but only one in a thousand can hope to be a "hit"…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—The passenger train from Quorn to Alice Springs is held up three miles from the Finke…
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FINKE RIVER: Children on the stranded Port Augusta-Alice Springs train today will have their first drink of milk since Thursday, Constable T. Kelly, of Finke River, having a herd of goats milked for them…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A big area of drought-stricken country stretching from the Gulf of Carpentaria at…
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MELBOURNE.—Play in the Australian tennis championships at Kooyong today was held up by rain…
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BRISBANE: Extensive damage was caused on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria by a cyclone today. Gales up to 80 m.p.h. are…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— A fire observation tower was blown 65 feet when a cyclonic storm suddenly struck the…
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Newcastle Council Health Committee recommended last night that Messrs. Hawkins and Booth, Ms.L.A., be asked…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Six people were rescued to-day by rowing boat in two separate incidents in Tully, North…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.— A cyclone heavily damaged the Persbyterian Mission on Mornington Island, in the Gulf…
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