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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1943

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Storm Damage Tributes To C.R.C.C. Staff Work

Northern Star · Thursday 2 December 1943 · page 2

Speaking to a special supplementary report by the Manager of the Clarence River County Council at the last meeting, Cr…

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Galvanised Iron for Storm Damage Repairs

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 4

From information received by the Secretary of the District War Agricultural Committee (Mr. R. Pilgrim), it would appear that a…

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Houses Wrecked In Storm

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 December 1943 · page 4

CASINO, Tuesday.—Residents of Back Creek, Backmetle and surrounding localities had a terrifying experience yesterday…

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Severe Storm in Casino Area

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 15 December 1943 · page 4

CASINO, Tuesday: Residents of Backmede and surrounding localities had a terrifying experience yesterday afternoon about 5.30 when…

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Heavy Rain at Ballina

Northern Star · Thursday 16 December 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Rainfall registrations for the week ended today were:—North Coast: Tweed Heads 120, Murwillumbah 53…

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Severe Storm at Jiggi

Northern Star · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 4

A severe electrical storm, accompanied by heavy rain, passed over Jiggi on Wednesday evening. The electricity supply failed shortly…

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Storm at Casino Interrupts Electricity Supply

Northern Star · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 5

CASINO, Thursday.—Following a sweltering day yesterday, when the maximum temperature was 100 degrees, a severe electrical storm…

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Nearly Two Inches In Friday's Storm

Northern Star · Monday 20 December 1943 · page 4

As a result of the heavy storm en Friday night. 199 points of rain was registered for the 24 hours to 9 a.m. on Saturday, making a…

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King Centre of Greek Storm

Northern Star · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).— The "Daily Telegraph's" Cairo correspondent, commenting on the delicacy of the King of Greece's…

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Mullumbimby Storm

Northern Star · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 4

MULLUMBIMBY. Tuesday. — Sixty-four points of rain was registered in a storm here early this morning…

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Two Storms in Day

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 2

Murwillumbah was drenched by two storms within less than 24 hours yesterday. They added to the unusual number of storms…

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Seven in Hospital After Fierce Storm

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday After they had been rescued from their homes and taken over flooded creeks, seven members of two…

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Heavy Rain on Tweed; Damage to Crops, Creeks Rise

Tweed Daily · Thursday 30 December 1943 · page 2

Heavy rain fell throughout the Tweed yesterday and damage to crops and roads were reported in some districts. The rain was needed on the upper Tweed, as…

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Shipping Heroism Merchantmen Caught In Cyclone

Northern Star · Thursday 30 December 1943 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — When one of the worst cyclones in history swept the coast of North Queensland, crews of merchantmen…

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Worst Cyclone in Memory Off North Q. Coast

Tweed Daily · Thursday 30 December 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Naval ratings, merchant seamen, and deckers of the Australian Army were heroes in duels which the…

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Heavy Rain Causes Light Flooding

Northern Star · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 4

Following two days of heavy rain in Lismore and district, particularly around Nimbin, where more than six inches fell, the…

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Fierce Coastal Gale Hundreds of Camps Washed Out

Tweed Daily · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thursday: A 14-year-old boy was drowned, many watercourses flooded and hundreds of seaside campers washed out as the result of very heavy rain accompanied by a fierce gale, which swept Southwestern…

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Creeks Run Bankers, But Only Minor Flood in Tweed River

Tweed Daily · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 2

Fears of a possible flood on the Tweed as the result of the heavy rains which fell yesterday and on Wednesday, following a severe storm on Tuesday night, were relaxed late yesterday afternoon…

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