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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1941

759 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 38

Severe Dust Storm Halts Desert Moves

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A communique issued from Cairo states that a severe duststorm in the Western Desert has interfered with…

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Severe Dust Storm Halts Desert Moves

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday-- A communique issued from Cairo states that a severe duststorm in the Western Desert has interfered with…

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Severe Dust Storm Halts Desert Moves

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A communique issued from Cairo states that a severe duststorm in the Western Desert has interfered with…

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Severe Dust Storm Halts Desert Moves

Daily Mirror · Saturday 20 September 1941 · page 3

LONDON-- Saturday-- A Communique issued from Cairo states that a serve dust storm in the Western Desert has interfered with…

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U.S. Arms Flood For Britain

Truth · Sunday 21 September 1941 · page 22

LONDON, Saturday (From F. E. BAUME): Hugh H. Tiltman, celebrated London correspondent of many U.S. newspapers, describing the American arms speed-up, says: "The full story has not yet been told, but enough is known to enable me to predict that one year hence there will be more weapons than…

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Woman Claims £60 for Flood Damage to Crop

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 September 1941 · page 2

IN Parramatta District Court today A Mrs. Phyllis Frances Maxwell, Fitzwilliam Road, Toongabbie, claimed £60 from Blacktown Shire…

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Woman Claims £60 for Flood Damage to Crop

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 September 1941 · page 5

IN Parramatta District Court today Mrs. Phyllis Frances Maxwell, Fitzwilliam Road, Toongabbie, claimed £60 from Blacktown Shire…

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Flood Spoilt Beet Crop, Says Woman

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 September 1941 · page 2

BECAUSE a culvert in Old Windsor Road had been negligently built flood waters entered her property and spoilt her crop of beetroot and…

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Flood Spoilt Beet Crop, Says Woman

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 September 1941 · page 2

BECAUSE a culvert in Old Windsor Road had been negligently built, flood waters entered her property and spoilt her crop of beetroot and…

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Flood Spoilt Beet Crop, Says Woman

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 September 1941 · page 2

BECAUSE a culvert in Old Windsor Road had been negligently built flood waters entered her property and spoilt her crop of beetroot and…

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Romanette Bolts Home in Woodend Deluge Waterlogged Tracks Easy for Westralian

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 September 1941 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Blinding rain and a track that was chopped to pieces suited the favorite, Romanette, who simply bolted in in the Flying Handicap at Woodend today. The former Westralian revelled in the going, and…

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Romanette Bolts Home in Woodend Deluge Waterlogged Tracks Easy for Westralian

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 September 1941 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Blinding rain and a track that was chopped to pieces suited the favorite, Romanette, who simply bolted in in the Flying Handicap at Woodend, today. The former Westralian revelled in the going, and…

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Flood-proof Fence Saves Money

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 September 1941 · page 4

NOT least among the items of loss resulting from the Hoods which periodically lay waste many lowlying rural districts Is that…

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Flood Waters Surge Through Texas Town

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 September 1941 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Water 20 feet deep surged through Houston (Texas) during a tropical hurricane A number of persons were drowned…

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Flooded Diggers

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 27 September 1941 · page 16

WHEN the cease fire sounded at Khalde on the coastal sector, and things generally quietened…

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Rain Storms in Prospect

Truth · Sunday 28 September 1941 · page 26

FURTHER storms may be looked for at, or just after, the weekend. This because of an increase in the sunspot groups, one of which is…

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Storm Over Aussies' London Welfare

Truth · Sunday 28 September 1941 · page 22

LONDON, Saturday (B.U.P. Special): Sensational developments are expected over the administration of the Australian War Contributions Council funds in London following a stormy meeting of Council on Friday…

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Northerly Gale Wrecks Sailing

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 September 1941 · page 8

A northerly gale disorganised sailing races on the Harbor yesterday. Only 13 of 56 starters finished in the eight races held…

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Fierce City Storm Cool Weather Forecast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 September 1941 · page 8

Violent gusts of wind reaching at times a force of 50 miles an hour, preceded a brief but fierce electrical rainstorm which swept…

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Man Injured in City Storm Freak Rain, Wind End Sultry Day

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 September 1941 · page 5

A man was injured by an advertising board which was blown along Castlereagh Street, city,…

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