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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1944

646 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 33

Storm Damages Country Properties Wind Plays Freaks Canopy of Dust Lies Over State

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 9

A FREAK storm which swept through the north-western corner of the State and screamed over the Queensland border, in the past 36 hours…

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Storm Damages Country Properties Wind Plays Freaks Canopy of Dust Lies Over State

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 9

A FREAK storm which swept through the north-western comer of the State and screamed over the Queensland border, in the past 36 hours…

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Storm Damages Country Properties Swept By Freak Winds Canopy of Dust Lies Over State

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 5

AFREAK storm which swept through the north-western comer of the State and screamed over the Queensland border, in the past 36 hours…

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Storm Damages Country Properties Swept By Freak Winds Canopy of Dust Lies Over State

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 5

A FREAK storm which swept through the north-western corner of the State and screamed over the Queensland border, in the past 24 hours…

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Storm Damages Country Properties Swept By Freak Winds Canopy of Dust Lies Over State

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 5

A FREAK storm which swept through the north-western corner of the State and screamed over the Queensland border, in the past 24 hours…

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Cry for Snowy River Water As Dust-storms Rage Diversion to the Murrumbidgee for Irrigation Sought by Big Conference by Our Special Representative

The Land · Friday 22 December 1944 · page 3

ONE of the largest and most representative conferences ever held in Hay, met last Saturday, and decided unanimously to urge the State and Federal Governments to take the necessary steps towards the carrying out of the Snowy River Investigation Committee recommendation for the diversion of 1,200 cubic feet per second…

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Fine, Warm Xmas Forecast; Dust Storms Subsiding

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 December 1944 · page 6

Fine, warm weather for Christmas was predicted yesterday by the Divisional Meteorologist (Mr. Mares). His forecast for Sydney is: "Fine, warm, hazy."…

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Red Army Again Storms Budapest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Russians are again storming Budapest (Hungarian capital) and the battle has moved into the immediate outskirts of the city…

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Red Army Again Storms Budapest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Russians are again storming Budapest (Hungarian capital) and the battle has moved into the. immediate outskirts of the city…

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Red Army Again Storms. Budaoest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Russians are again storming Budapest (Hungarian capital) and the battle has moved into the immediate outskirts of the city…

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Red Army Again Storms Budapest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Russians are again storming Budapest (Hungarian capital) and the battle has moved into the immediate outskirts of the city…

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Red Army Again Storms Budapest

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Russians are again storming Budapest (Hungarian capital) and the battle has moved into the immediate outskirts or the city…

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Reds Again Storm Budapest Battle Raging In Outskirts Austrian Links Cut

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--The Russians ' are again storming Budapest (Hungarian capita) and the battle has moved into the immediate outskirts of…

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Airfield at Gibraltar Floodlit for Night Take-off

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 1

A Dakota aircraft of the British Overseas' Airways Corporation waiting for the take-off at Gibraltar. It is silhouetted against powerful searchlights secreted in crevices and galleries of The Rock. "Out stations" of the B.O.A.C., which have been…

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Human Torrent Flooding to City After Holiday

The Sun · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 3

Steady stream of returning holiday tourists to Sydney today should become e torrent by tonight. Early morning trains were not overladen, but later reports from country Holiday centres, particularly Gosford, tell of jammed corridors and people…

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U S. Scheme to Control Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 December 1944 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Monday. (A.A.P.)--President Roosevelt yesterday signed a bill authorising the expenditure of £312,500,000 on post-war flood control…

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Night of Terror in Gale Nine on Disabled Launch

The Sun · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 3

Five girls and four youths spent hours of terror last night in a disabled 18ft launch riding at anchor during a severe gale in Botany Bay. A huge wave smashed in the front…

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Launch Party's Grim Ordeal Night-Long Battle With Gale Girls Aid Men in Wild Seas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 2

CLAD only in swimming costumes and trunks, four men, four women and a girl, adrift in a small launch, fought for nine hours to keep the boat…

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Launch Party's Grim Ordeal Night-Long Battle With Gale Girls Aid Men in Wild Seas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 2

CLAD only in swimming costumes and trunks, four men, four women and a girl, adrift in a small launch, fought for nine hours to keep the boat…

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Launch Party's Grim Ordeal Night-Long Battle With Gale Girls Aid Men in Wild Seas

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 December 1944 · page 2

CLAD only in swimming costumes and trunks, four men, four women and a girl, adrift in a small launch, fought for nine hours to keep the boat…

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