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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

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Heavy Flood Blocks Hume Highway £1670 Fire in Semi-Trailer

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 November 1948 · page 1

A flood blocking the Hume Highway at Tarcutta throughout Saturday and early yesterday morning caused a £1670 fire in a semi-trailer. The blaze began in petrol drained from a flooded…

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Hail Storms Extensive Damage

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 12 November 1948 · page 2

Recent hailstorms have done extensive damage. Most farmers affected were insured (nearly 100 claims were made to Coolamon…

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Hume Highway Flooded

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 November 1948 · page 4

A flood blocking the Hume Highway at Tarcutta throughout Saturday and early Monday morning caused a £1,670 fire in a…

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Further Flooding at Tumut Plains Serious Damage To Cultivation Land

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 November 1948 · page 2

Following the recent falls of rain, Tumut Plains folk have been isolated owing to excess flooding. All traffic has been blocked from…

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Heavy Rain at Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 3

LEETON, Tuesday: Fifty points of rain fell within a quarter of an hour in Leeton at about 6 p.m. today…

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Storm Smashes Telephone Lines

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Communications between Victoria and New South Wales were cut tonight when fierce thunderstorms…

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Storm Disrupts Interstate Communications

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Communications between Victoria and New South Wales were cut last night, when fierce…

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Phone Communications Interrupted in South by Heavy Storms

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 3

Heavy rain in Northern Victoria yesterday interrupted telephone communications with Melbourne. Telephone and telegraph communications with Melbourne from Albury were interrupted from 6 p.m…

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Storm Expected in House Over Evatt's Actions

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday: If the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) grants an opportunity for a foreign affairs debate in the…

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Heavy Storm Damage in Yanco Area

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 18 November 1948 · page 1

LEETON, Wednesday: Sheds were unroofed, houses damaged, and power services were disrupted in a short but violent wind and rainstorm at Yanco last night…

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After the Storm a Visit To Wilga Street

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 5

"That bears out what I said at the last Council meeting," said Cr. T. H. Dunn on Wednesday afternoon as the Works Committee stood…

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Tornado-Like Storm Bursts Over Leeton District Wide-spread Damage Reported

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 6

A STORM of tornadic fury burst over Leeton about 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday and did extensive damage over a wide-spread…

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Flood of U.S. Gifts for Lucky Baby

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 November 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Sun. (A.A.P.): An avalanche of gifts for Elizabeth, the baby daughter of Mrs. Maud Philip, a bus conductor's…

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Cyclone Hits Western India Worst on Record

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 1

BOMBAY, Tuesday.—Seven persons were killed and 100, injured in the worst cyclone ever recorded in Western India…

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Heavy Hail Storm Near Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sydney's vegetable supplies are expected to be affected by a fierce hall-storm which flattened market…

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C.W.A. Members Miss Meeting Through Floods

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 3

Recent floods prevented many members from attending the monthly meeting of the Tarcutta C.W.A. branch…

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Cyclone in West India Death Roll was Heavy

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 24 November 1948 · page 1

BOMBAY, Wednesday — Bombay is slowly recovering from the cyclone, which, it is feared cost 63 lives during the…

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Cyclone Strikes Scone

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 December 1948 · page 1

SCONE Thursday: A cyclone that swept Scone this afternoon unroofed buildings, blew down telephone and electric light poles…

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Crops Suffer Heavily in Northern Storm

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Residents of the northern districts of Moree and Scone spent today salvaging materials and…

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New Soviet Threat Expected in Berlin Storm Over Destruction of Russian Radio Masts

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 1

BERLIN, Friday (A.A.P.): Unconfirmed German reports say that Moscow has sent direct orders to the Soviet authorities in Berlin to prepare for the…

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