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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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CORAKI, Wednesday.—An application to the Department of Public Works for an immediate grant to assist the shire in the heavy cost it faced to repair flood damage to roads was approved at a meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday: Lumps of ice drifted on the floodwaters through the three main streets of Bedford, which is under water as a result of the Great Out bursting its banks. Twenty-five Bedfordshire villages also are flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—At least two persons have lost their lives and a great amount of damage has been caused as a result of floods following the great thaw throughout the country. Emergency wartime organisations had to be brought into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Monday (AAP).—High seas and 60 knot winds are battering the broken stern section of the American tanker, Fort…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday (AAP).—Flood waters, resulting from the thaw and heavy rain, whipped by a 70-miles-an-hour gale, are surging around thousands of homes in the Thames Valley. Wind caused extensive damage in Birmingham. Three people were dug out…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →PERTH, Tuesday: With one cyclone centred, to the north of Broome and another to the west, gales and heavy rain are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday: The situation in the Fen Country was reported to be more critical than yesterday. Farmers on Haddenham Fen, near Ely, were advised to leave their homes as the flood water crept towards them…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). —The death roll as a result of floods which followed the week-end thaw is 15 including six men, eight…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →LONDON, Wednesday: Thousands more acres of Fen land were flooded last night and banks of the Great Ouse broken about 10 miles from Ely. Flying squads have been organised to rush to new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Floods have extended to at least 30 of the 40 English counties, and many rivers are still rising. In six Midlands and eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday: With more rain forecast, the situation this morning in the main flooded areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Thursday (AAP).—Only five of England's 40 counties have not yet been affected by floods, which were said last night to be growing more critical hourly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →I have been asked how long the present downpour of rain will last, and I have replied, until the end of March…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Friday: Troo[?] reinforcements have been sent to southern Norfolk, latest danger point in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday: One [?]ousand troops, besides civilians and German prisoners, worked all night to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Sunday (AAP).—The Ministry of Food has released large stocks of gift food including tinned rabbit and malted and condensed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Board of the recently constituted Gundurimba Shire "C" Riding Drainage Union, recently made an inspection of the whole of the area…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday (AAP).—Cattle and sheep losses as a result of blizzards and floods in Great Britain are estimated at more than £12 million sterling. The National Union of Farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Tuesday: A storm is brewing in the House of Commons over the execution of three out of five West African natives condemned to death for a ritual murder…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—Floods in Britain were a disaster of the first magnitude, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Tom Williams) told the House of Commons last night…
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