Heavy Rain North Queensland Deluged BRISBANE
Further heavy rain has fallen on the tropical coast, reaching up to 650 points for the 24 hours ended 9 o'clock this morning. Babinda has…
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Floods & storms, 1939
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Floods in North Partial Resumption of Traffic
CAIRNS, Wednesday:—The flood waters which isolated Cairns yesterday have fallen considerably to-day, permitting partial resumption of…
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DURBAN, Wednesday:—Fifteen persons have been drowned and thousands are homeless in Natal and the…
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Fifteen have been drowned and thousands rendered homeless by heavy floods in Natal and the Transvaal. Roads and bridges has been wrecked…
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BRISBANE. Thursday:—As a result of torrential falls last night Cairns was again isolated by floods, but with improved weather to-day air…
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MACKAY, Thursday:—Frederick Jones (26) was killed this morning when a tree fell on the camp at Eton Range in which he and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood of Applications From Refugees to Enter Australia Australia House To Select?
CANBERRA, Thursday:—Australia House may have to be given powers soon to select alien migrants because of the…
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BRISBANE, Sunday:—A boy drowned at South Johnstone, a survey party of six marooned in the Tully area, trains held up at…
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JOHANNESBURG, Sunday:—Floods isolated the town of Barberton and drowned 40 persons. There is a threatened food…
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Floods isolated Barberton and drowned 40, and also threaten a food shortage for the whites, and a famine for the natives on the Kreger…
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LOURENCO MARQUES. Monday:—A cyclone to-day in South-Fast Africa, devastated the island of Angoche. Every house and two…
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A cyclone devastated the island of Angoche, in Portuguese East Africa, and every house and two lighthouses were razed…
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CAIRNS, Tuesday:—William Joseph Clark (15)) was drowned when he fell from his horse while crossing the flooded Mulgrave…
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William Joseph Clark (19) is believed to have been drowned in the flooded Mulgrave River to-day. He was crossing the river on a horse, between…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy Rain in North-west of Queensland Railway Traffic Delayed
BRISBANE, Sunday:—Heavy rain in the north-west caused further delays to railway traffic, and to-day the [?]nail train from Townsville to…
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CLONCURRY, Tuesday:—Considerable losses of stock are feared consequent on the floods which swept the country between Mt…
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DURBAN, Friday:—The renewal of flooding on the Eastern. Provinces washed away railways and crippled vital services. Twelve…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday:—Follow-36 hours of almost continuous rainfall in the major part of Victoria, a flood warning was issued…
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MT. ISA. Sunday:—Most of the townspeople to-night cheered the arrival of the first train for eight days, the line from Cloncurry…
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Air, road and rail services are held up by the floods in Central Australia. Great tracts of country are now flooded for the third time this year…
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