More Than 3 In. From Storm
Murwillumbah and most of the Tweed district received three and a half inches of rain from storms on Thursday and Friday and over the weekend. Thursday night's storm…
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Floods & storms, 1949
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Tomki Shire Grant For Flood Repairs
CASINO, Sunday.—An offer of £3100 by the Minister for Local Government towards the cost of repairing flood damage was accepted at the monthly meeting of Tomki Shire Council…
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An 18-year-old Lismore youth and an ex-pupil of Nashua School, has received £10 from the Commissioner of Police with a certificate in…
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CHICAGO, Tuesday: Westerly gales up to 80 miles an hour whipped over the western plains early today from the Rocky Mountains, isolating scores of mountain towns and marooning…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: At 9 o'clock tonight a cyclone was 150 miles northeast of Cairns,…
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CORAKI, Wednesday.—Woodburn Shire Council will request property owners in the shire tp supply details of losses caused by the flood last June so that full information, of the extent of damage can be…
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CAIRNS, Thursday.—Extensive damage is reported to have been caused at Cooktown by, a cyclone which struck the town early this morning. Telephone and telegraph services…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: Wind: up to 90 m.p.h. and torrential rain were still pounding the 600 residents of Cooktown when contact was lost with the town late this afternoon. Lashed by the cyclone since 3 a.m. yesterday, the town has estimated…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Post office authorities said this morning they have been unable to contact the cyclone area from Cooktown to…
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CAIRNS, Friday: Although there was not loss of life or serious casualties in the cyclone which swept…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Electric sub-stations and homes were struck by lightning, transport services interrupted and home-going business crowds drenched when a severe electrical storm broke over…
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CAIRNS, Sunday.—Houses collapsed like matchwood when the cyclone struck Cooktown on Thursday, said four eye-witnesses who arrived here to-day from the battered northern town…
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Bruises, co[?]ussion and shock were sustained by Cyril James, of 52 Dibbs Street, Lismore, and Gordon Connors, of 134 Tamar Street,…
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CAIRNS, Sunday: About 40 in Cooktown's West Coast Hotel played the piano and sang and had a "few drinks" while the town was devastated by the cyclone, said Mr Arthur Eastwood a former…
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BRISBANE, Monday: The five members of the crew of the 50ft. lighthouse and navigation ship, Swingle, who arrived at Cooktown last night, said they were lucky to be alive after battling through 40ft. seas at the peak of…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday: Queenslanders on the 280 mile stretch of coast from Cairns to Bowen were…
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CAIRNS, Tuesday. — A gale which reached a velocity of 45 m.p.h. and lasted for (four hours lashed Cairns from the north-east…
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CAIRNS, Tuesday: Eight men lashed by rain and spray from big waves smashing on to the concrete…
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LIMA (Peru), Tuesday: Seventy persons were killed on Sunday when a flood swept over the town of Sondondo, 250 miles south-east…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: The coastal areas of Queensland escaped wind and flood damage today…
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