Heavy Rain On Clarence
GRAFTON, Friday: Growers of late maize will receive a setback from heavy rain which fell over the Clarence district…
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Floods & storms, 1948
510 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 26
Wahine Encounters Heavy Gales
SYDNEY, Sunday.--The trans-Tasman liner Wahine reached Sydney to-day from Wellington after the roughest crossing in years…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: Eight men had to be rescued from swamped craft and dozens of tents were…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: Whipped by howling winds, a 12-years-old girl stood thigh-deep in bitterly cold waves for nearly an hour holding aloft a flickering lantern to guide her father and…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.--Eight men had to be rescued from a swamped boat and dozens of tents were levelled when out of a clear sky a 60…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday.--Thousands of acres of land in the north-west a [?]still flooded following the recent heavy rain. Four…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday; A storm warning issued by the Weather Bureau at 4.30 today stated: "A small cyclonic centre, in the…
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TAMWORTH, Tuesday: Men are swimming horses across miles of flooded country west of Moree to carry food to marooned station…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: Fonight the cyclone off the north Queensland coast had moved to a position about…
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Tweed Shire Engineer (Mr A. L. Horniman) in a report to Tweed Shire Council on a flood prevention scheme for Murwillumbah stated that generally he agreed with the plan of the consulting engineer (Mr J. S. Just)…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: A second cyclone is apparently forming off the Queensland coast, about…
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Heavy rain fell at Lismore shortly before noon yesterday, drenching many shoppers and workers who had come out without raincoats or…
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BRISBANE, Monday: North Queensland, above Car dwell, is still isolated by rail and road as a result of heavy rain along the coastal belt for 100 miles south of Cairns…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Even if no more rain falls this month, Sydney will have had its wettest January in ten years. Rainfall for…
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Heavy rain resulted in a general fall of over an inch in the Rich mind district. The falls were heaviest on the coast. The total…
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BALLINA, Tuesday.--One hundred and seventy-three points of rain fell in an hour at Ballina yesterday…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A freak cyclonic storm which tore trees out by the roots, injured a nurse and several children when it struck…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: A cyclonic storm warning to shipping and all people living on the coast between Cook town and Rockhampton was given by the acting meteorologist…
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LONDON. Wednesday: The floods in Derbyshire are the worst reported in 70 years, and in Yorkshire. Mid-Wales, and…
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It was reported tonight from Sydney that heavy rain on the Central and South Coast today caused serious flood danger…
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