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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1941

759 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 38

Homeless in floods

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 22 June 1941 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Hundreds of munition workers living in caravans and tents near Footscray and Altona…

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Caught In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 June 1941 · page 4

THE CAMERA caught this cross-section of life at a critical moment. Lowering clouds warn that the storm is about to break, but the obstinate car remains stuck in the mud in spite of the efforts of four strong men to shift it. This unusual picture earns 10s for Mrs. R. Swann, of 287 Cleveland Street, Redfern…

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Caught In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 June 1941 · page 4

THE CAMERA caught this cross-section of life a critical moment. Lowering clouds warn that the storm is about to breach to break, but the obstinate car remains stuck in the mud in spite of the efforts of four strong men to shift it. This unusual picture earns 10s for Mrs. R. Swann, of 287 Cleveland Street, Redfern…

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Caught In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 June 1941 · page 4

THE CAMERA caught this cross- section of life at a critical moment. Lowering clouds warn that the storm is about to break, but the obstinate car remains stuck in the mud in spite of the efforts of four strong men to shift it. This unusual picture earns 10s for Mrs. R. Swann, of 287 Cleveland Street, Redfern…

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Caught In Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 June 1941 · page 4

THE CAMERA caught this cross- section of life at a critical moment. Lowering clouds warn that the storm is about to break, but the obstinate car remains stuck in the mud in spite of the efforts of four strong men to shift it. this unusual picture earns 10s for Mrs. R. Swann, of 287 Cleveland Street, Redfern…

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Won Key To Damascus Veterans From N.S.W. Storm Hill Forts Haifa

The Sun · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 7

In some of the bitterest, deadliest fighting of the war, A.I.F. veterans of Libya, Greece and Crete, who come from New South Wales, performed a splendid feat of arms in the vital blow for Damascus…

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Newtown Council Big Storm Blows Up Over Sand

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 6

Newtown's engineer (Mr. L. J Kelly), who recently had a brush with the Town Clerk of Newtown, was again the storm…

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Newtown Council Big Storm Blows Up Over Sand

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 6

Newtown's engineer (Mr. L. J. Kelly), who recently had a brush with the Town Clerk of Newtown, was again the storm…

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Newtown Council Big Storm, Blows Up Over Sand

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 3

Newtown's engineer (Mr. L. J. Kelly), who recently had a brush with the Town Clerk of Newtown, was again the storm…

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Newtown Council Big Storm Blows Up Over Sand

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 6

Newtown's engineer (Mr. L. J. Kelly), who recently had a brush with the Town Clerk of Newtown, was again the storm…

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Newtown Council Big Storm Blows Up Over Sand

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 6

Newtown's engineer (Mr. L. J. Kelly), who recently had a brush with the Town Clerk of Newtown, was again the storm…

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Newtown Council Big Storm Blows Up Over Sand

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 3

Newtown's engineer (Mr. L. J. Kelly), who recently had a brush with the Town Clerk of Newtown, was again the storm…

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Newtown Council Big Storm Blows Up Over Sand

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 6

Newtown's engineer (Mr. L. J.Kelly), who recently had a brush with the Town Clerk of f Newtown, was again the storm…

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Flying-boat, in Gale, 50ft. Above Tasman

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 June 1941 · page 5

Trying to dodge a 70 m.p.h. gale, the flying-boat Aotearoa yesterday flew the Tasman at altitudes ranging from 50 feet to more than 10,000 feet. A senior member of the…

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Flood Disaster In Japan LONDON

The Sun · Saturday 28 June 1941 · page 3

A cloudburst caused disastrous floods in western Japan, including the island of Kyushu…

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Storm in Japan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 June 1941 · page 10

TOKYO, June 29 (A.A.P.).—The HOme Office reported yesterday that 100 persons were killed, 50,000 homes were flooded, extensive damage was…

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Beaverbrook May Hold Off Storm London

The Sun · Tuesday 1 July 1941 · page 1

Lord Beaverbrook goes to the Ministry of Supply just before a storm looks like breaking over production, says the "Manchester Guardian's" political correspondent. "Charges of incompetence against…

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South Coast Fodder No Fear of Droughts; Fodder is Stored for Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 4

MR. JOSEPH N. HARRIS, Harrisdale, Kiah, winner of the fodder conservation competition conducted by Eden A. and H…

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Nazi Films Flooding America New York

The Sun · Sunday 6 July 1941 · page 3

Axis propagandists here are wielding one of Germany's most powerful weapons -- newsreels and…

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