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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

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Flood Surveys by Mystery Group

Northern Star · Monday 24 January 1949 · page 4

Lismore has a mystery organisation. Just who comprises it no one seems prepared to say, but it was stated at the A.L.P. meeting that a few public minded men, as a hobby, are trying to solve the Northern…

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Flood Prevention Minister Will Seek Early Air Survey of Tweed

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 January 1949 · page 2

The Minister for Lands, Mr W. F. Sheahan, will ask the Surveyor-General, Mr Mullins, to give the Tweed a high aerial survey priority…

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Catalinas Flee From Cyclone

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Two French Catalina amphibian planes, belonging to the Inter Island Flying Service, landed in…

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Left Noumea to Evade Cyclone

Northern Star · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday. — An hour before a 100 knot cyclone was forecast to reach New Calendonia two French Catalina Amphibious…

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£1500 Grant For Flood Damage

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 January 1949 · page 2

An offer of a grant of £1500 to repair flood damage, by the Public Works Department, was accepted at yesterday's meeting…

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Docking Flying Boat in Gale

Northern Star · Saturday 29 January 1949 · page 5

A flying boat being docked at the B.O.A.C. terminal at Southampton at the height of a gale. As soon as the flying-boat has come within a few feet of the dock a, wire rope, passing from the hull through a…

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Fierce Storm In Norway

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 1

OSLO, Monday: A 24- hour storm still raging in the Bergen area was reported last night to have torn ships from their…

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Gale and Rain Closed Mascot Last Night

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 6

=SYDNEY, Monday: The Mascot control authorities closed the drome down at 7.30 tonight, and diverted seven inter-State planes…

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Duke's Photograph Aroused Storm

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Britain's Labour Party has withdrawn a propaganda pamphlet featuring a photograph taken 13 years ago of the young Duke of Kent…

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Flood Committee's Work Not Known, Says Councillor

Northern Star · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 4

The public did not know the set-up of the committee and the criticism that had been made was not helpful, said Cr. C. S. Middleton, when he submitted the first progress report on the Flood Mitigation…

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100 Fishmongers Storm Markets

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Over one hundred.angry fishmongers, mostly foreigners, tried to burst into the manager's office at the fish market…

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Cyclist Hurt In Collision During Storm

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday.—A cyclist returning home from work today was knocked down in a collision with a taxi and…

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Half Inch Of Rain From Storm

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 2

An electric storm which broke over Murwillumbah at about 7 o'clock last night realised about half an inch of rain…

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Inch Falls in Thunderstorm

Northern Star · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 4

Falls of nearly an inch were recorded when a thunderstorm broke over the Richmond district yesterday afternoon…

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Double Cyclone

Tweed Daily · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 2

LONGREACH, Friday: Tangorin township, halfway between Muttaburra and Hughenden, was devastated by a double cyclone last…

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Inch Falls in Storms

Northern Star · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 4

District centres generally received more than an inch of rain in each of the storms on Thursday night and late yesterday afternoon…

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Two Inches From Storm; Minor Flooding

Tweed Daily · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 2

Two inches of rain fell in Murwillumbah last night during a severe electric storm, and caused minor floodings. There was no damage. Four to six inches of water…

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Car Overturns During Storm

Tweed Daily · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 2

Donald Tiley, 28, married, inurance agent, of Short Street, Brunswick Heads, was badly injured when his car…

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Fireballs in Storm at Rockhampton

Tweed Daily · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 2

ROCKHAMPTON, Friday:-- Rockhampton underwent a "bombardment" late tonight in a fierce electrical storm…

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Good Rain in Storms

Northern Star · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 4

With only six days of February gohe, more than one and a half times the rainfall for the name month last year has been received…

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