Torrential Rain on Tweed From Cyclone
Torrential rain fell at Murwillumbah and Lower Tweed centres for several hours yesterday afternoon, but it practically ceased about 8.30 p.m., and last night there appeared to be…
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Floods & storms, 1946
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Flood Areas and Proposed Uniform Gauge Line
BECAUSE of Sir Harold Clapp's special visit to Queensland to make an aerial inspection of the flooded areas adjacent to the proposed uniform gauge railway line, as adopted by Federal Cabinet, this map…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Falls up to eight inches along the North Coast of N.S.W., coinciding with even heavier flood rains in Queensland, where fourteen inches were recorded at Springbrook, near Brisbane, marked a part of the cyclonic storm along the east coast of Australia on Friday and yesterday…
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A steel floodboat built for Murwillumbah Municipal Council by Mr C. W. Lewis, engineer, Murwillumbah, proved a success…
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LONDON, Sunday: The worst gale for 50 years yesterday swept across the Midlands, leaving a 150-mile trail of floods. The gale blowing over the Dover Straits reached hurricane force of 90 miles an hour. It buffeted ships and drove…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—Many towns are under water in the Midlands and Wales in the worst floods for 30 years…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday. — Seven to nine inches of rain fell throughout the Tweed district as the result of a cyclonic…
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MURWILLUMBAH. Sunday.—A steel flood boat, built for Murwillumbah Municipal Council by Mr. C. W. Lewis, engineer, of…
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TOWNSVILLE, Monday: Cyclonic weather during the weekend, with a registration of if 11¾in. of rain in Townsville, resulted in one of the biggest floods in Townsville for 40 years…
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LONDON, Monday: One person was killed and 3000 were rendered homeless when flood water tore a breach in a dyke along the Emscher River between Gelsenkirchen Horst and Heine, near the Ruhr industrial…
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LONDON, Monday (AAP).— Floods in the Rhineland are the worst for thirty-five years and Hamburg radio reports…
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TOWNSVILLE, Monday. — Cyclonic weather during the week-end with 11¾ inches of rain resulted in one of the biggest floods in Townsville for 40 years. A great part of the Townsville…
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Flooding in the Main Arm district had prevented his client coming to the court, said Mr. T E Rummery at Lismore Court of…
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TAMWORTH, Tuesday: Torrential rain fell at Tamworth to-day, 206 points being registered in an hour. West Tamworth…
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LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—The worst floods that have hit Germany in a century, are causing catastrophic results, according to…
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LONDON, Wednesday: A Gelsenkirchen message says that 3000 villagers were rendered homeless in…
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GELSENKIRCHEN, Wednesday.(AAP).— Three thousand villagers were rendered homeless when the Emscher River, a…
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Most vital requirement to mitigate flood damage at Murwillumbah and district was a few hours' warning of the imminence of a flood, the secretary of Tweed - Brunswick…
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LISMORE, Thursday: A representative of Tweed Engineering Co., Murwillumbah, will demonstrate one. of the firm's recently…
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A representative of the Tweed Engineering Co., Murwillumbah, will demonstrate one of the firm's recently constructed steel flood…
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