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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1946

12 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Queensland Floods

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE.—Flood waters from the Condamine River have isolated tne township of Millmerran, 45 miles south-west of Toowoomba, and a…

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Telegraphic News Fierce Gale in Adelaide

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 4

ADELAIDE.—A gale which reached 62 miles an hour struck Adelaide yesterday afternoon, resulting in the death of a man, houses being…

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£4,000 Grant for Braidwood Road Damage by Flood

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

Contribution of £4,000 has been offered by the Government to the Tallaganda Shire towards the cost of road, culvert and bridge damage by floods…

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Serious Floods in Queensland

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 2

BRISBANE.—Great waves of water are continuing to rush down the Burdekin River watershed to its confluence with other rivers at Sellheim, and fears…

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Intense Cyclone Approaching N.s.w

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 2

All air services between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane were cancelled early to-day as the result of cyclonic conditions over a wide area of the…

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Disastrous Floods in the North

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 2

Hood waters on the North Coast' were this morning reported to be receding slowly from all danger points, but thousands of acres of rich…

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Flood Damage Grant Yarrowlumla Shire Offered £250

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 1

A Government grant of £250 for the purpose of arresting further flood damage on the Burra Road has been offered to the…

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Severe Cyclone

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 3

The cyclone which swept portion of Murrumbateman district on Tuesday is described, by local residents as the most severe they had…

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Forty Drowned in [?] Floods TEHERAN, Wednesday (A.A.P.)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 3

The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers have overflowed their banks and flooded more than 1,000 acres of agricultural land and the port of Basra…

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Floods Threatened

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1946 · page 3

The threat of flooding in the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Snowy Rivers due to thawing snow has been averted temporarily by freezing weather over…

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Flood-lighting Railway Yards

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday night Mr. Seiffert (Member for Monro) asked the Minister for Transport whether it is a [?]…

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Telegraphic News Disastrous Gale

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1946 · page 2

BRISBANE.—Five Douglas passenger planes were piled together on the Archerfield aerodrome late yesterday afternoon when an 85 m.p.h. gale…

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