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Floods & storms, 1939

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Daily News · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 7

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Queensland Floods. Youth Drowned. Brave Rescue Attempt. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 11

A youth was drowned in floodwaters at South Johnstone, and a survey party is marooned at Bullyard, Jarra Creek, following torrential rains, which have…

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Boy Falls Off Bridge, Drowns Rescue Attempt in Flooded River Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 February 1939 · page 8

D. SCHAFFER, 16, fell from a bridgeinto the South Johnstone River at South Johnstone yesterday and was drowned. He was riding his bicycle over the low-level bridge when he fell…

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Cyclone Razes Island Homes Capetown

The Sun · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 5

In Portuguese East Africa, a cyclone devastated the island of Angoche today. Every house and two lighthouses…

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Daily News · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 6

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Forty Drowned in Floods. Johannesburg, Feb. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 11

Forty people were drowned in floods, which have isolated the town of Barberton, near the eastern border of the Transvaal. The floods threaten a food shortage among…

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Man Drowned in Floods Drought Relieved In Queensland BRISBANE

The Sun · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 12

William Joseph Clark, 19. is believed to have been drowned in the flooded Mulgrave River to-day. Clark was crossing the river on…

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Cyclone Sweeps Island. London, Feb. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 18

Two Europeans—a missionary and a nun— were killed in a cyclone which devastated the island of Angoche, off the coast of Portuguese East Africa…

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Daily News · Wednesday 15 February 1939 · page 6

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Salutation's Finish Made a Cyclone Look a Zephyr

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 1

PUNTERS will live to a very long day before they witness a more sensational and hair-raising finish than the one unwound by the…

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Daily News · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 6

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The Farmer Must Keep on Building Though Fires Destroy and Storms Wreck, the Homesteads Rise Again Vast Range of Material at Service of Man on the Land

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 6

REPLACEMENT of farm structures after bushfires have taken toll is necessary and imperative, whether it entails replacing only a few fencing posts or the entire accommodation of the farm, as happened in some N.S.W districts during the fires of last month…

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Flood on the Lachlan Next Year?

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 2

MR. J. P. MALE, of Waterview, Gooloogong, near Fortes, now at the ripe age of 71, makes some interesting…

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The Silver Screen Muriei Flood Steals "Dave's" Heart In New Cinesound Comedy

The Broadcaster · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 4

Radio has given another talented player to the Australian screen. She is Muriel Flood, who plays her [?] screen role in Cinesounds "Dad and Dave Come…

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Flood Precautions. Tumut

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 10

The emergency measures to be adopted if floods threaten the stability of the Burrinjuck dam were discussed at a meeting in the Tumut Town Hall, which was attended by many…

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Cars As Flood Refuges

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 8

STRANDED VILLAGERS of Cordoba (Argentine) take refuge on top of flooded motor Cars as the river Primero rises. Flood death- roll amounted to hundreds…

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Daily News · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 7

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Daily News · Saturday 18 February 1939 · page 5

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Flood After Bushfires. Refugees' Discomforts. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 February 1939 · page 12

Refugees at Woods Point who had lost their homes in the bushfires endured some of the diseomforts of floods early this morning when their camp was…

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Victim of Flood in Barron River Cairns

The Sun · Saturday 18 February 1939 · page 3

The flooded Barron River claimed a victim last night when Arthur Ferdinand Lavin (37), waterside worker, fell from a flattie in which he was…

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