25 Year Lag by Ausl Against Flood, Drought
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Australia lags at least 25 years behind other countries in the fight against flood and drought, said…
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Floods & storms, 1946
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Drought On Flood Anniversary
Whereas record floods ravaged the district exactly 12 months ago, the whole of the Richmond is now in urgent need of two or three…
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GRAFTON, Wednesday. Grafton Council has received a two-way wireless transmitting set from the…
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TEHERAN, Wednesday (AAP).—The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers overflowed their banks and flooded over 1000 acres of agricultural land…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Wintry weather continues over the south-eastern parts of Australia although conditions are…
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SEOUL, Wednesday (AAP).—A flood resulting from eight inches of rain in the past four days has drowned 19 Koreans while nearly…
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Floodlighting at St. George's Chapel, Windsor,, during the Victory celebrations…
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Tweed Shire Council, Lavender Swamp Drainage Trust and Murwillumbah Technical Advisory Committee wrote to…
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Assurance that if Murwillumbah obtained a flood preventionscheme a new and enlarged post office would be built on the present site was given the Mayor (Ald. C. J. Snow) daring his recent visit to Sydney…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Friday.—An assurance that if Murwillumbah secured a flood prevention scheme the P.M.G's. department would…
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Murwillumbah and District Chamber of Commerce will support Murwillumbah Municipal Council in…
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CALCUTTA, Monday (AAP). —The authorities have sent R.A.F. Dakotas to drop supplies to some of the 500,000 people in Eastern…
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PERTH, Monday. — The Swan River is in flood and its waters rose to a height of 5 feet 8 inches at noon today. A number of houses…
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NEW DELHI, Wednesday (AAP).—The floods in Eastern Bengal are subsiding. They covered 600,000 square miles and caused nearly £1 million…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: A strip of land 2000 yards wide and three-quarters of a mile long in the Batlow district was devastated by…
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Replying to representations from the Northern Rivers and Tablelands Federated Chambers of Commerce regarding an emergency…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Although the wind velocity abated today to 30 m.p.h. after periods of a 70 m.p.h. blizzard which has been sweeping the Southern Alps for the past nine days, it is expected to continue for…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The threat of serious flooding in northeastern Victoria increased today with continued heavy rains…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — North- eastern Victoria faces the threat of serious floods within…
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HOBART. Wednesday.—The crew of the auxiliary ketch. Defender, had an unenviable experience when the 67-ton craft was forced to battle…
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