Cutter Battled Gales With Broken Mast
HOBART, Monday. — The 34 feot Sydney cutter. Nimbus, 2th. boat to finish in the Sydney-Hobart ocean classic,…
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Floods & storms, 1952
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Heavy Gale Toll
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). — An aftermath of the gales and heavy seas which have…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP). — Five women and a boy were among 10 passengers who had to jump overboard from the storm-smashed American freighter, Flying Enterprise,…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP).—While the salvage tug, Turmoil, is attempting to put a party and a tow line aboard the crippled freighter, Flying Enterprise, gale warnings in the area have The American destroyer, John D. Weeks,…
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The Casino district only benefited to any extent from the rain which fell during the weekend. A storm which broke about 4.30 p.m. on…
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Two sharp storms last night followed one of the hottest days the Richmond district has experienced this summer. Century-high registrations were reported…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Captain Kurt Carlsen is reported to be on the verge of exhaustion after being forced to crawl around the crippled…
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BRISBANE, Thursday. âFlood warnings have been issued for parts of Central Queensland, which, a few…
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"Farmers in drought areas of New South Wales would be wise to sow Japanese millet for a quick growth of green feed as…
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LONDON, Monday (AAP). — Two ships went aground seven miles apart, on the Kent…
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SEATTLE, Monday (AAP). —Ah Arctic-born storm in the North Pacific temporarily halted the search for the…
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CASINO, Friday.—Although the bushfire danger has been lessened by falls of rain in the Casino fire district, the danger…
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CORAKI, Friday.—Half an inch of rain fell in a short period during a thunderstorm at Upper Bungawalbyn at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Torres Hit by Cyclone Luggers Missing
BRISBANE, Sunday. —Fears are held for many pearling luggers caught in a cyclone which has…
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DJAKARTA, Wed. (AAP-Reuter).—Heaviest rain for 20 years caused the deaths of 40 people on Java Island, flooded…
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CASABLANCA, Wednesday (AAP).—A violent storm today threatened to break up an American military cargo ship…
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A freak storm, which caused heavy damage in Casino, and new outbreaks of bushfires in Lismore, Coraki and Woodburn districts, were sequels to a heat wave yesterday in which temperatures in some centres soared to 106 degrees. It was 102.6…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday (AAP-Reuter).—Eight inches of rain in eight hours during the week-end…
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PARIS, Tuesday (AAP).—Floods, which have already caused 11 deaths, rose steadily in south-west France…
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CASINO, Wednesday.—Despite heavy damage caused by last week's severe storm there has been no…
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