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Floods & storms, 1944

646 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 33

Flooding Broken Hill Mine Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 August 1944 · page 7

BROKEN HILL, Monday.--In this city, where a strike is held each Tuesday to enforce an adequate water supply, thousands of gallons of water are…

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Paper Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 August 1944 · page 6

WHO said there was a paper shortage? For a week our suburb has been flooded with Referendum pamphlets, six or seven going into every…

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Paper Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 August 1944 · page 6

WHO said there was a paper shortage? For a week our suburb has been flooded with Referendum pamphlets, six or seven going into every…

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Paper Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 August 1944 · page 6

WHO said there was a paper shortage? For a week our suburb has been flooded with Referendum pamphlets, six or seven going into every…

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Paper Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 August 1944 · page 6

WHO said there was a paper shortage? For a week our suburb has been flooded with Referendum pamphlets, six or seven going into every…

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Paper Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 August 1944 · page 6

WHO said there was a paper shortage? For a week our suburb has been flooded with Referendum pamphlets, six or seven going into every…

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Paper Flood

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 2 August 1944 · page 6

WHO said there was a paper shortage? For a week our suburb has been flooded with Referendum pamphlets, six or seven going into every…

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Notes On Religion Storm and Calm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 August 1944 · page 9

OUTWARD storm and inward calm—can it be arrived at in the midst of our personal sorrows and troubles, added to a…

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Flood of Tenders for Cigarettes

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 August 1944 · page 2

THE Customs Department has received so many tenders for purchase of 200,000 seized cigarettes that the staff dealing with them has to…

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Flood of Tenders for Cigarettes

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 9 August 1944 · page 2

THE Customs Department has received so many tenders for purchase of 200,000 seized cigarettes that the staff dealing with them has to…

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Heavy Storms End Drought

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 August 1944 · page 1

A rain storm has developed over almost the entire State, with moderate to heavy falls general. IN one locality, hundreds of…

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Heavy Storms End Drought

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 August 1944 · page 1

A rain storm has developed over almost the entire State, with moderate to heavy falls general. IN one locality, hundreds of…

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Heavy Storms End Drought

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 August 1944 · page 1

A rain storm has developed over almost the entire State, with moderate to heavy falls general. IN one locality, hundreds of…

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Plane Crashes in Heavy Storm Skids 200 yds. Into Drain At Drome; Third In 10 Months

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 August 1944 · page 5

A U.S. Army transport plane, making a forced landing in a storm at Newcastle yesterday, crashed into a stormwater channel at Broadmeadow aerodrome…

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Cyclone Almost Demolishes Town

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 August 1944 · page 7

MONTREAL, Saturday.--The thriving railway town of Kamsack (Saskatchewan) has been almost demolished by a cyclone. Damage…

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Cyclone Almost Demolishes Town

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 August 1944 · page 7

MONTREAL, Saturday.--The thriving railway town of Kamsack (Saskatchewan) has been almost demolished by a cyclone. Damage…

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Cyclone Almost Demolishes Town

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 August 1944 · page 2

MONTREAL, Saturday.--The thriving railway town of Kamsack (Saskatchewan) has been almost demolished by a cyclone. Damage…

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Riding The Storm "On Living in a Revolution," Fifteen Essays by Julian Huxley. [?]Challa and Windus, London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 August 1944 · page 6

THE most important aspect of the world to-day, Dr. Huxley considers, is not that we are living in a war, but that we are…

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Labor's 1,000,000 leaflet deluge to combat Lang's "No" campaign

The Sun · Sunday 13 August 1944 · page 5

THE Labor Party will distribute 1,000,000 vote "Yes" cards this week. All Labor leagues and electoral councils have been advised to have a preponderance of…

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Seven Drown In Fiji Storm

The Sun · Tuesday 15 August 1944 · page 3

SUVA, Tuesday.--During a storm on Friday, a sailing culter with 24 Fijians aboard, sank off Yasawa…

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