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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1941

759 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 38

Rail Gang Safe. Plane Search After Cyclone. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 5

A railway gang reported missing after the cyclone in the Port Hedland district of Western Australia has been found by a searching plane, near Shaw River, 59…

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Pedal Radio Flood News Perth

The Sun · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 2

Information concerning the recent willy-willy is starting to filter into Port Hedland from stations with pedal wireless sets…

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City's Week-end Indoors. Rain, Southerly Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 11

Sydney spent the week-end indoors—on Saturday because of heavy rain; yesterday because of a chill southerly gale. The gale abated towards nightfall. No…

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Floods Sweep North-West Water Hearing Homes, Main Roads Blocked

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 7

After heavy weekend rain, floods miles wide are sweeping parts of the North-West. More than five and a half inches of rain fell on Saturday and Sunday over a wide area around Werris…

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Floods Likely on Namoi. Stock Being Moved

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 11

The Namoi River was rising steadily last night, and extensive flooding is expected in the Wee Waa district. Stock were being moved yesterday and it…

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Flood Waters Threaten Town

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 3

Flood waters from the Namoi River basin yesterday poured down on Wee Waa. Residents expect the flood to reach…

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Members' Protest Storm in State House

Liverpool News · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 2

A motion to suspend Parliamentary business to enable discussion of a private member's bill raised a storm in the legislative Assembly yesterday…

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Storm in State House Members Protest On Rights

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 6

A motion to suspend Parliamentary business to enable discussion of a private member's bill raised a storm…

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Fadden Resents Hoax Charge Criticism Of Warning Rouses Storm CANBERRA

The Sun · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 3

Charge by Mr. Ward (Lab., N.S.W.) that the recent "grave warning" issued by the War Council was a "hoax" aroused an angry scene in the House of…

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Iron Ark Takes Succor to Flooded Areas

The Sun · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 13

Isolated by exceptional floods, settlers in remote country north of Cooper's Creek, in Central Australia, were succored by a steel craft,…

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Warning Of Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 10

Floods are likely in lowlying country on the Namol River, below Wee Waa, within a day or two…

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Floodwaters Begin To Fall

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 4

Namo[?] River floodwaters surrounding Wee Waa began to fall last night. The river reached a peak of 21 feet…

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Patriots Ready To Storm Big Stronghold LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 16 March 1941 · page 4

Abyssinian Patriots are ready to storm Debra Markos, the East big Italian stronghold before Addis Ababa. A MILITARY spokesman at…

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Arms Trickle to Flood B.U.P. Exclusive—LONDON

Truth · Sunday 16 March 1941 · page 1

WITHIN two days of the signing of the Lend or Lease Bill, the United States is despatching aid to Britain in the form of equipment and supplies from existing stocks, and talking about what aid she can render immediately to Yugoslavia, Turkey and Eire…

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Heavy Rain in the North. Fear of Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 9

Heavy falls of rain of up to three inches were recorded in the north during the week-end, and there is a danger of floods in some of the northern…

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51 Killed in U.S. STORMS. Motorists Frozen to Death. WASHINGTON, March 18. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 12

Casualties aie mounting from Saturday night's blizzard in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota, says a report from Grand Forks (North…

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Flood and Famine

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 8

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Floods Sweep Farms, Drown Cattle Wellington (N Z.)

The Sun · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 31

Many hundreds ol sheep and cattle have been drowned by Hoods which swept through the Pohangina Valley in the centre of the North Island,…

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Two Bridge Spans Lost in N.z. Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 10

AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--Floods in the South Island of New Zealand have done extensive damage to bridges and to the main trunk railway line near…

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Atlantic Storms

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 2

Storms and hurricanes in the North Atlantic during December and January were regarded by British seamen who have arrived…

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