Snow Reduces Flood Risk
SYDNEY, Monday: Freezing weather in southern New South Wales yesterday and today checked the danger of flooding…
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Floods & storms, 1946
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More Flooding in South Predicted
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Acting State Meteorologist tonight predicted that melting snow would cause more flooding in the Tumut…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Unless there is heavy rain in the near future more than half of the wheat areas in NSW will fail to…
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WELLINGTON, Tuesday:—Struck by a huge slide in Manawatu Gorge at 4.15 this morning, a locomotive and three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£660 Grant for Flood Damage
GRAFTON, Thursday. — Grafton City Council has been offered a grant of £660 from the State Government for flood damage repair. The Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record Nile Floods
LONDON, Sunday: Reuter's Cairo correspondent states: The Nile continues to rise, causing record floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further Storms Yesterday
Further rain was received in district centres yesterday morning as the result of a stcrm. The registration at Lismore post office for…
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LONDON, Wednesday: Holland's great progress since the war was described by the official party of inspection in a report to the…
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Monday night's meeting provided a solemn hour for the Kyogle Hospital Board. The charge was that a district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Rain in Brisbane
BRISBANE, Tuesday: Storms in Brisbane yielded the best rain for months. Northern suburbs around Enoggera had the…
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Some light rain fell throughout the Tweed yesterday afternoon and early last night as the result of a storm which had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storms Bring Despair to British Farmers
LONDON, Wednesday: British farmers are in despair, says the Evening News. The first days of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Awards For Rescue Of Flood Victims
SYDNEY, Thursday.âCivilians and police who figured in outstanding rescue work during the devastating floods at Lismore in June 1945, were among those who won awards from the Royal Shipwreck Relief and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rowdy Meeting at Grafton Mr. Fadden Under Storm
GRAFTON, Friday.— The Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr. Fadden) was subjected to a stream of abuse tonight at the rowdiest…
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LONDON, Monday (AAP). —While prayers for better weather to save the harvest were being offered in churches…
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Flood lighting of St. Andrew's Church of England in Lismore was last night demonstrated to members of the Parochial…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP).—England is at present experiencing: the worst September gale for many years. On the South Coast rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sellers Flood New York 'Change
NEW YORK, Friday (AAP).—Heavy selling orders flooded the Stock Exchange at noon yesterday, plunging prices to a new low for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Smashes at Guam
GUAM, Sunday: A 100-mile per hour typhoon hit Guam early yesterday, doing tremendous damage to military installations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy Death Roll in English Gale
LONDON, Sunday (AAP)—The death roll in the great gale which swept the English Channel and southern England on Friday before…
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