The Forum Tweed Flood Prevention (To the Editor)
Sir,--I have noted the report submitted to Tweed Shire Council by its engineer (Mr. Horniman) on flood prevention, which is said to be similar to…
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Floods & storms, 1948
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Suburban Homes Flooded
SYDNEY, Wednesday.--So heavy was the rain in Sydney to-day that many suburban houses were flooded. One family of seven was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Heavy rain on the Central and South Coast to-day has caused serious flood dangers. The Weather Bureau tonight…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).--Floods in Derbyshire, the worst reported in 70 years, and in Yorkshire, Mid-Wales and…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.-- The tropical depression which has caused heavy rain in North Queensland was approximately 300 miles east of…
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Storms were experienced throughout Nerang Shire during the past two days. The rainfall registration at Mudgeeraba for…
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LONDON, Tuesday: Renter's Paris representative says: The worst floods since 1778 have driven more than 50,000 people…
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Work would begin this morning on building a flood prevention levee for South Murwillumbah, the engineer (Mr A. L. Horniman) said at Tweed Shire Council meeting yesterday. It would consist of an earth…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Wednesday.--Work will begin tomorrow on building a flood prevention levee for South Murwillumbah. The bank…
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At the annual meeting of Northern Rivers Association of Municipalities and Shires on Wednesday, February 25, Lismore City Council…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday. -- A tropical storm with gusts up to 125 m.p.h. at this centre is travelling rapidly south-west across the track…
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SYDNEY, Friday. -- Winds reaching 110 m.p.h. have been sweeping Lord Howe Island, 403 miles off the New South Wales coast, in one of…
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A flood levee along Alma Street, South Murwillumbah, which will protect the Southside against all but the biggest floods, had been practically completed yesterday afternoon by…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Friday -- A flood levee along Alma Street, South Murwillumbah, which will protect the south side against all…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: A dramatic radio message has been received from the Victorian ketch, Kurrewa…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--Seven of the eight yachts in the Auckland-Sydney race were caught in one of the worst cyclones that ever lashed the Tasman Sea. The biggest yacht, Kurrewa III., 58ft Victorian…
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LONDON, Monday: Reuter's Paris representative says that 100 were killed and several hundred injured, and 50 are missing on Reunion Island, where a cyclone has been raging since January 27, according to a cable from…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- A cyclone which swept the Seymour district tonight caused many thousands of pounds damage…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- The Victorian ketch, Kurrewa III., was first to cross the line in Watson's Bay in the trans-Tasman yacht race to-day. The ketch arrived at 7.24 a.m., taking nine days 21 hours and 24 minutes…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP) .--Transatlantic liners and freighters were far behind schedule yesterday as one of the worst winter storms in years over the North Atlantic and covering the entire shipping, route…
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