Heavy Seas, Gales Lash Coast Defences
LONDON, Monday (AAP).--Flood watchers stood-to all day yesterday as gales and heavy seas threatened defences, just 11 months after 300 died in widespread floods…
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Floods & storms, 1954
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Gale Sweeps Two Dinghies To Sea
MARYBOROUGH, Tuesday. -- Two dinghies with an unknown number of occupants aboard are missing in Hervey Bay tonight…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--The Weather Bureau tonight renewed storm warnings to shipping on the N.S.W. coast…
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BRISBANE, Thursday. -- A cloudburst at Collinsviile to-day put the State owned mine out of production…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP). -- Icy gales swept Europe yesterday, causing deaths and destruction in the wake…
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BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Torrential rain over a third of Queensland has broken the drought in…
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BRISBANE, Monday. --The recently completed Brisbane Bridge, linking South Mitchell properties with the…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--A three-hour break in the weather saved Mackay and Proserpine from…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--Flood waters have tonight isolated Western Queensland towns on the Barcoo,…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.--The Weather Bureau was watching tonight for a possible cyclone development in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--Heavy rain in Sydney today has dimmed Carioca's chance of winning the Anniversary Handicap, 1½ miles, to be run at Randwick tomorrow…
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A 10-minute electrical storm last night disrupted Lismore and district power communications…
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ON BOARD THE CRUISER BLACK PRINCE, Sunday (AAP).--Storm warnings have been radioed to the Royal yacht Gothic carrying the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh and her escorting cruiser, the R.N.Z.N. Black Prince…
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BRISBANE, Friday. -- A monsoon over 1000 square miles of Lower Carpentaria. Central We[?]rn [?] Central…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--A tropical cyclone was moving tonight towards the South East corner of Queensland. The Weather Bureau issued…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--Parts cf Mackay, in Central North Queensland, were Hooded to a depth of four feet today when the Pioneer River, swollen by recent torrential rains,…
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A man and his two children were drowned when a motor car plunged down an embankment into a flooded creek about two miles from Nimbin…
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BRISBANE, Thursday. -- Flood rains have stopped nearly all inter-city road…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday. -- The flood danger at Murwillumbah passed today when the…
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BRISBANE, Thursday. -- A Queensland woman swam creeks and walked for miles before her baby was born in…
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