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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1943

113 stories in Riverina's papers · page 6 of 6

Italian Lull Heavy Rain Floods Rivers Eighth Army Gains Ground Nazi Reinforcements

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 November 1943 · page 1

LONDON, Friday (AAP): Heavy rain restricts activity along the whole Allied front in Italy. Rivers are flooded, and roads and…

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Storm Breaks Electric Wire in Dangerous Spot

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 22 November 1943 · page 4

On Saturday morning Mr. R. A. A. Lehmann and Mr. Vince Hart were taking sheep from the Junee sale yards to the former's…

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Northern Floods Pastures Eight Feet Under Water

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: In one of the greatest floods on the north-west tablelands towns and homesteads have been isolated and miles of grazing…

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Storm at Lismore Crops and Property Damaged

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1943 · page 1

LISMORE. Friday: During a heavy hailstorm yesterday five people were hurt and d[?]ge caused to property in the town [?]d to crops in the…

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Destroyed by Storm £27,000 Tobacco Leaf

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 3 December 1943 · page 1

TOWNSVILLE, Friday: Within five minutes tobacco leaf worth more than £27,000 was ruined by a cyclonic storm at Emerald Creek, Mareeba, on…

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Cyclone at Uranquinty

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 2

A cyclone travelling in a narrow path recently struck Uranquinty, doing much damage to crops, fruit trees and buildings A section of the…

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Tobacco Crop Ruined by Hail Storm

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1943 · page 3

TOWNSVELLE, Friday: Tobacco leaf worth £27,500 was ruined in five minutes by a cyclonic hailstorm at Emerald Creek, Mareeba, on…

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13 Boys Drowned at Picnic River Punt Capsizes During Sudden Storm

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 2

Thirteen boys were drowned when a punt overturned in a sudden storm on the Clarence River at Grafton at 6 o'clock on Saturday night…

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Train Crash In Snow Storm Kills Hundred People. (A.a.p.) Lumberton, North Carolina

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 17 December 1943 · page 1

It is estimated that upwards of a hundred persons were killed and scores of others injured when two fast passenger trains were…

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King of Greece Unwitting Centre of Political Storm

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 2

LONDON. Wednesday. — The "Daily Telegraph" Cairo correspondent, commenting on the delicacy of the Kine of Greece's…

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Cyclone at Tamworth

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 2

More than 20 people, nurses and patients, were injured in a cyclone near Tamworth last week-end. Only a few hundred yards…

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Army Dockers Heroic Work During Gales

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: When one of the worst cyclones in its history swept the coast of North Queensland the crews of merchantmen and Australian…

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Gale and Floods IN S.E. QUEENSLAND

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thursday: A 14-year-old boy was drowned many watercourses flooded, and hundreds of seaside campers washed out as a result…

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