Storms Hit Over Wide Area
Thunderstorms struck dozens of centres on a 1000-mile stretch of the Queensland coastline yesterday afternoon…
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Floods & storms, 1954
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Anglo Dies From Storm Injuries
MELBOURNE: Anglo, who won several races over long courses in Melbourne, died at Terang (V.) while a…
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MARRAKESH, Thurs. (AAP) —Twenty-three people have been drowned in floods in southern…
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LONDON. Nov. 11. A.A.P. —Gales and cloudbursts battered Britain yesterday. They stopped trains and…
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LONDON, Nov. 12. A.A.P.—Waves swept through the streets into the houses of Hull (Yorkshire) early to-day when two rivers, swollen by rains, clashed with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blackouts From Wild Storm
Blackouts lasting from five minutes to half an hour were caused by a violent thunderstorm which swept across…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.A.F. Heaters Aid Flood Victims
LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.)—Twenty big mobile heaters normally used to warm up aircraft engines have…
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NARROMINE: Reports now indicate that Saturday's severe hailstorm caused many thousands of…
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Floods in the Hunter River were getting worse, Mr. E. A. Crago told Newcastle Rotary Club luncheon yesterday. He said that in 100 years from the time the Maitland…
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A sailing official said last night that conditions for the Northern Zone sailing championships on Lake Macquarie…
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Rainstorms overnight in Newcastle registered 14 points at Nebbys. At Merewether, Mr. R. W. Parker…
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SYDNEY,—The Minister for Social Services (Mr. Landa) said in the Legislative Assembly that a…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Flood Of Newcastle Bids For Licences
The State Government will receive a flood of applications for club licences from the Newcastle district following a decision by Cabinet yesterday…
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LISMORE, Wednesday. —Hail a foot deep blanketed parts of Lismore district to-day after a hailstorm…
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LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).—A lifeboat, trawlers and an R.A.F. patrol bomber are battling against…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Floods, Gales In Britain
LONDON, Friday, (A.A.P.): The worst rain in living memory fell in parts of western…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. —Three West Wallsend pensioners whose homes were damaged by a storm last…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.) : A storm is working up over Sir Winston Churchill's admission that he ordered Nazi arms to be held against the day when they might he used against Russia. Newspapers of different…
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LONDON, Nov. 26. A.A.P. Torrential rain flooded many parts of Western England yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wild Storms Hit U.K. Ships Wrecked; Seven Men Believed Dead
LONDON, Nov. 28. A.A.P.—Two ships were wrecked and seven men are feared dead in violent storms which cut a path of destruction through southern England at the…
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