Hundreds Homeless in Queensland Cyclone and Floods
BRISBANE, Sunday: The North Queensland cyclone has cut off all means of communication north of Mackay, and the Johnston River…
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Queensland Floods Slight Receding
BRISBANE, Tuesday: Although flood waters are still menacing Home Hill and Ayr. incomplete reports, reaching Brisbane suggest that the…
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BRISBANE, Monday: As the flood waters in Queensland threaten to engulf great areas with possible disastrous consequences, the Queensland Railway Department is rushing every available train to…
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Heavy rains throughout Queensland have caused rivers to rise to flood levels. Townsville has had 20 inches of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Almost 3000 Australian servicemen are on board three troopships which have been caught in the…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday: The pilot of a plane which flew over Home Hill this morning found the town under water and the occupants of houses clinging to rooftops and waving excitedly. In…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday: Although communication hat not been restored with the flooded, towns of Home Hill and Ayr, in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Damage to sugar cane crops as a result of the North Queensland floods and cyclone was not sufficiently serious…
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Between noon and 1 p.m. a thunderstorm with torrential rain yesterday passed along the course of Gibbonsâ Creek on the Wagga road. Messrs,…
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TOWNSVILLE, Thursday: While floodwater are receding from the inundated areas, civil authorities are planning ways and means to…
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SYDNEY, Frday: Warnings of cyclones raging between Rockhampton and New Caledonia have been wirelessed to the Japanese "hell-ship," Yoizuki, by the R.A.N. authorities, but they have not been…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: It is estimated that the recent floods in Northern Queensland caused damage totalling £3,000.000. Losses…
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Protesting against their dismissals and demanding to see the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan), 40 tram and bus conductresses "stormed" Parliament House on Wednesday. Some of the women are shown here eating lunch in the entrance hall while waiting to see the Minister…
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BRISBANE, Sunday: Great areas of Western Queensland were buffetted by raging dust storms yesterday, and visibility throughout the day…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Heavy rain in New South Wales yesterday ruined thousands of tons of wine and table grapes, and threatens other fruit crops. Rain forced all fruit pickers in the…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday: A married couple and their daughter were marooned at the end of a wrecked pier at Semaphore Beach, when…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday: Portland, in Western Victoria, was isolated by floods yesterday, following torrential rain over a wide portion of…
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Seven people are believed to have lost their lives and others are endangered by floods which cover the western district of Victoria and…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Devastation and loss of life have accompanied the worst floods in the history of the Western district of Victoria. It appears…
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MELBOURNE, Monday: Devastation and loss of life have accompanied the worst floods in the history of the western districts of Victoria. It appears that the deathroll may be much larger than the five drownings reported from the township of…
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