Radio Gear For Floods
The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Enticknap) has approved a tender to supply short-wave radio network equipment for flood warning use in the…
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Floods & storms, 1953
304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 16
Heavy Rain Floods Townsville
BRISBANE, Thursday.— Thirty homes were evacuated in Townsville, North Queensland, to-day, following…
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BRISBANE, Friday.— Floods in North Queensland have stranded 800 people in trains between Rockhampton…
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Mr. R. W. Parker forecasts thunderstorms later today. A cool change should follow with…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—Flood waters raged through the coastal plains of California and Oregon to-day…
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BRISBANE, Monday.— Urandangie, in North-Western Queensland, expects to he under water to-morrow night if…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—There was a risk of widespread flooding in the Tweed, Richmond and Clarence River basins, the…
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WELLINGTON, Jan. 26. A.A.P.-Reuter.— Widespread floods wiped out road and rail communication north and west…
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BRISBANE.—Seven marooned motorists in three vehicles were rescued just before dark last night from…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.— A squad of uniformed police had to control a crowd of more than 1000 women who…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday.—One ho[?] was destroyed two were unroofed, and three partly unroofed in a cyclone at…
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LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.): Nearly 400 people have perished in one of the worst storms in centuries, which battered Britain and Europe at the weekend. One hundred and twenty-eight were drowned in the sinking of an…
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THE HAGUE, Feb. 1. A.A.P.—A state of emergency was declared in many parts of south-western Holland to-day after heavy seas, whipped up by gales,…
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High humidity maintained oppressive weather conditions today and Mr. R. W. Parker forecasts the…
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LONDON, Feb. 2. A.A.P.—Coastal dwellers on both sides of the North Sea counted their dead to-day as dropping winds promised a respite from the floods…
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LONDON, Tues. (AAP): At least 1037 people have perished in week-end storms which swept Britain and Western Europe and drove high seas over thousands of square miles of coastal…
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LONDON, Feb. 3. A.A.P.—The appalling loss caused by the floods in Britain and Holland became clearer to-day. National services in both countries are…
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LONDON, Feb. 3. A.A.P.—Canvey Island, the Thames Estuary holiday centre with a population of more than 13,000, suffered worst in the British…
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LONDON, Feb. 3.—The nation is to-day surveying one of its greatest peace-time tragedies. The flood catastrophe would have…
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(A.A.P.) : A great Allied mercy mission is faking aid by land, sea and air to 50,000 homeless in Holland, worst hit of three countries by the North…
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