Beneficial Storm
Pastures, crops and gardens benefited from a heavy storm which passed over Cedar Point on Wednesday night last…
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Floods & storms, 1950
443 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 23
£20,000 Damage in Tamworth Storm
TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Five homes were unroofed and many others were partly unroofed when a severe storm, with a gale force wind, struck North Tamworth this afternoon. Police estimated…
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NEW YORK, Sunday (AAP).— The city's temperature ran down 20 degress in two hours on Friday night, when a cold front from the…
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TAMWORTH, Monday.—A representative of the Social Services Department (Mr. Birnie) and a member of the Department of…
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NEW YORK, Monday (AAP).— Large areas of the Middle West are threatened by floods, and regular army troops have been brought in…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Road, rail and air traffic has been disrupted in Northern Queensland by torrential rain, yielding nearly 10 inches…
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NEW YORK, Monday (AAP).—Violent weather over most of the United States and parts of Canada, yesterday, caused 34 deaths. Nine people died in a blizzard…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Twelve inches of rain deluged Archer Point. on the far north coast, in 24 hours up to 9 a.m. today. Other falls ranged from 245 points at Townsville to 755 at Cairns and…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The State Weather Bureau tonight issued Good warnings for all Queensland districts…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A rain-loaded cyclone, driving into New South Wales from Queensland at 20 knots, has caused: The disappearance of three men who are believed drowned in a flooded creek near Grafton…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The cyclone which swept through Queensland and parts of N.S.W. yesterday and early today, claimed eight lives —six in New South Wales and two in Queensland. Widespread damage was caused by the cyclone, which is now lying more…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Friday.—The State Flood Mitigation Committee will shortly visit the Tweed to confer with the local Flood…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Americap capitalists financing Japan were a real threat to Australia's full employment and high living…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP). — A nationwide storm has started over a 28 year old mother of six [?]en who agreed to be sterilised…
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DARWIN, Wednesday. — The 15 stone body of a man was carried by his native employees five miles through flooded swamps, from…
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CHARLESTON (West Virginia), Friday (AAP).—At least four persons died and thousands of families were forced to flee to higher…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A night of terror is being spent by residents of the shale oil town of Glen Davis, where flood waters from the swollen Capertee River have inundated a third of the town. More than six inches of rain fell in 18 hours and the river burst its banks…
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Road traffic at this point was cut off during the flood at Glen Davis. Between, the partly submerged signpost…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Continuing rain over the South Coast of N.S.W. is maintaining rivers in the area at approaching flood levels. An average of 12 inches fell on the far South Coast in the last 24 hours. The downfall has caused one of the most destructive floods in the history of the South Coast…
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Over three inches of rain was recorded at Lynch's Creek since Monday. The falls came from passing…
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