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Floods & storms, 1941

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Benby Club Prize Letter a Flood Gate

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 November 1941 · page 12

"SERGEANT MAJOR" (Mitchell's Is.): During the holidays I stayed with my Uncle, on Oxley Island, and helped him build a floodgate. I suppose you have never helped build…

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Good Prospects of Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 5

AT 9 o'clock this morning light rain was falling at Ashford, Warialda, Inverell and other towns in the north-west and north-east districts of…

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U.S. Ready to Intern Japanese Vital Hour In Pacific Crisis Labor Storm Stirs Nation

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 2

NEW YORK, Friday.--Internment camps through out the United States are ready for occupation by Japanese nationals on the day America and Japan go to war, said radio news commentator John B,…

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U.S. Ready to Intern Japanese Vital Hour In Pacific Crisis Labor Storm Stirs Nation

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 2

NEW YORK, Friday.--Internment camps throughout the United States are ready for occupation by Japanese nationals on the day America and Japan go to war, said radio news commentator John B…

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U.S. Ready to Intern Japanese Vital Hoar In Pacific Crisis Labor Storm Stirs Nation

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 2

NEW Friday.---Internment camps through out the United States are ready for occupation by Japanese nationals on the day America and Japan go to war, said radio news commentator John B…

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Heavy Storm Sweeps City

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 2

Described by the Assistant Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) as an "invasion of a tropical influence from the direction of…

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Heavy Storm Sweeps City

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 2

Described by the Assistant Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) as an "invasion of a tropical influence from the direction of…

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Heavy Storm Sweeps City

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 2

Described by the Assistant Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) as an "invasion of a tropical influence from the direction of…

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Heavy Storm Sweeps City

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 3

Described by the Assistant Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) as an "invasion of a tropical influence from the direction of…

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Heavy Storm Sweeps City

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 2

Described by the Assistant Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) as an "invasion of a tropical influence from the direction of…

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Heavy Storm Sweeps City

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 2

Described by the Assistant Meteorologist (Mr. Newman) as an "invasion of a tropical influence from the direction of…

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L.G.U. Meeting Ends in a Storm Leura Pairs Were Prominent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 November 1941 · page 15

Two Leura players, Mrs. Peters and Miss Mackenzie, won the concluding event of the L.G.U. Mountains meeting at Leura,…

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Sees Cyclone Rains Ahead

The Sun · Sunday 16 November 1941 · page 2

Rainstorms should fall soon over Sydney's catchment areas. The Divisional Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, said last night that…

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Stuart Peterson Storms Court

The Sun · Sunday 16 November 1941 · page 11

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Dust Storms in West

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 11

Strong winds and dry conditions have produced severe dust storms in many parts of the far western districts…

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Freak Storm at Orange

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 16

WHIPPED by a 70-mile-an-hour wind, a freak storm caused extensive damage in Orange this afternoon…

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Heavy Thunderstorm Relieves Intense Heat

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 2

Sydney sweltered under bronze colored, dust-laden skies today with the temperature continually climbing to a maximum of 95.4 degrees at 1.45 p.m. This was the highest city temperature since February 1 last…

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Heavy Thunderstorm Relieves Intense Heat

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 2

Sydney sweltered under bronze colored, dust-laden skies today with the temperature continually climbing to a maximum of 95.4 degrees at 1.45 p.m. This was the highest city temperature since February 1 last…

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Heavy Thunderstorm Relieves Intense Heat

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 19 November 1941 · page 2

Sydney sweltered under bronze colored, dust-laden skies today with the temperature continually climbing to a maximum of 95.4 degrees at 1.45 p.m. This was the highest city temperature since February 1 last…

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Heavy Rain on Catchment

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 November 1941 · page 7

The catchment areas caught a good share of yesterday's rain, which was general over the eastern half of the State. This fall…

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