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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1954

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Trail of wreckage after storms

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Fierce electrical storms, the worst for years, left a trail of wreckage through far north Western N.S.W. today…

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Storm causes blackouts at Tamworth

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Wednesday: A seven electrical storm plunged about twelve towns in the Tamworth district into…

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Violent Storm Buffets Yachts in Hobart Race

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday—Yachts competing in the Sydney-Hobart race were scattered over 7000 miles of ocean last night by violent storms. THE Victorian ketch, Landfall…

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