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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1944

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Pacific Storm

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday: Tokyo newspapers have issued warnings that. the Americans are massing huge invasion forces, says the…

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Heavy Rain Washaways on Northern Railways Many Trains Delayed

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 2

CASINO, Sunday: Because heavy rain had washed out the main north-south line hundreds of train passengers were…

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Storm in Sydney Trams Struck by Lightning

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Minor damage and slight casualties were caused when a violent electrical storm struck Sydney and suburbs last night. The roof…

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Violent Storm in Sydney Struck by Lightning Trams and Train

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

During a violent electrical storm which swept over Sydney late yesterday afternoon, four trains and a train were struck by lightning. The…

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A Flood of Letters from New Guinea Thank Leeton People for Christmas Hampers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

LAST week letters commenced to arrive in Leeton and they have been coming to hand by every mail since to local…

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Mrs. G. E. Gale

Daily Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

The death occurred in the Wagga Base Hospital yesterday afternoon of Mrs. Ivy Emma Gale of 39 Macleav-street, Wagga (wife…

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Fierce Storm in Sydney Lightning Strikes Four Trams

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

In a violent electrical storm over Sydney on Monday four trams and a train were struck by lightning. The drivers of two trams were taken to…

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Mrs. G. F. Gale

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 2

The funeral of Mrs, Ivy Emma Gale, of 39 Macleay-street. Wagga wife of Gunner G. E. Gale (A.I.F.) will take place at Wagga this…

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Mrs. G. E. Gale

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

The funeral of Ivy Emma Gale, of 39 Macleay-street Wagga, wife of Gunner G. E. Gale (AIF). whose death occurred in the Wagga Base…

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Wild Hail Storm £5000 Damage

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 1

More than £5000 damage was caused to Lithgow property by a freak hall torn on Thursday. Shop and factory windows were shattered and…

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Cyclone's Damage Bad Threequarters of an Hour at Campbelltown

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Between 7 and 8 o'clock last night a cyclone struck Campbelltown and raged for threequarters of an hour The roofs of 15…

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Wild Hail Storm in Lithgow £5000 Damage

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 2

More than £5000 damage was caused to Lithgow property by a treat hailstorm on Thursday. Shop and factory, windows were shattered and…

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Flood of Letters to Politicians

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 4

Sydney members of the Federal Parliament have received hundreds of letters from electors in the past few weeks, demanding their opposition in…

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Man Drowned Crossing Flooded River Ix the North

Daily Advertiser · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 1

LISMORE, Sunday: Robert Parker. farm hand, was drowned while attempting to cross a flooded low-level bridge over the…

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U.s. Plans Lost in Storm

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The Navy Department has announced that 22 Corsiar planes were lost in a severe storm on January 25…

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Mr. Arthur Flood, of Wallendbeen

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 2

The death occurred in the Sacred Heart Hospital on Monday night of Mr. Arthur Flood, 82, a well known identity of the Wallendbeen district…

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Gales and Dust Over the Irrigation Area Light Showers of Rain

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 3

Stormy winds that blew over the irrigation area on Sunday, accompanied by clouds of dust and an overcast sky, seemed to presage a fall of rain,…

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Serious Floods in South Africa

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 February 1944 · page 1

JOHANNESBURG, (S. Africa) Sunday (AAP): Heavy fal's of rain have caused the worst floods for ten years and are at present…

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Second Front Plans Germans to Flood Holland

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 February 1944 · page 4

The Swedish paper "Afton Tidningen," of February 8. quotes the Dutch paper, "Haagsche Post" as stating: "The German occupation…

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Big Floods in South Africa

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 1

The worst floods in South Africa for the last 10 years, we sweeping across the Transvaal veldt, and have washed away houses, live stock, and crops…

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