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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1944

646 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 33

Rain Deluge in Sydney Woman Injured When House Collapses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 4

An old unoccupied two-storey brick house at 93 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo, collapsed during a severe rainstorm yesterday…

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City Drenched in Peak Hour Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 3

City workers were soaked to the skin by a cloudburst which struck the metropolitan area shortly before 8 o'clock this morning. MORE than three inches of rain fell…

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City Drenched in Peak Hour Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 3

City workers were soaked to the skin by a cloudburst which struck the metropolitan area shortly before 8 o'clock this morning. MORE than three inches of rain fell…

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City Drenched in Peak Hour Storm

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 3

City workers were soaked to the skin by a cloudburst which struck the metropolitan area shortly before 8 o'clock this morning. MORE than three inches of rain fell…

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Great Storm Soaks Workers Three Inches Of Rain Falls In Hour Big Delay to Peak Traffic

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 2

CITY workers were soaked to the skin by a cloudburst which struck the metropolitan area shortly before 8 o'clock this mornings…

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Great Storm Soaks Workers Three Inches Of Rain Falls In Hour Big Delay to Peak Traffic

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 2

CITY workers were soaked to the skin by a cloudburst which struck the metropolitan area shortly before 8 o'clock this morning…

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Great Storm Soaks Workers Three Inches Of Rain Falls In Hour Big Delay to Peak Traffic

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 2

CITY workers were soaked to the skim by a cloudburst which struck the metropolitan area shortly before 8 o'clock this morning…

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Floodwater At Central

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 2

SHOES AND SOCKS OFF, these schoolboys wade through six inches of water that Hooded a subway at Central Station this morning during a torrential rainstorm which struck the City as thousands were on their way to work…

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Floodwater At Central

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 2

SHOES AND SOCKS OFF, these schoolboys wad through six inches of water flooded a subway at Central Station this morning during a torrential rainstorm which struck the City as thousands were on their way to work…

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Floodwater At Central

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 March 1944 · page 2

SHOES AND SOCKS OFF, these schoolboys wade through six inches of water that flooded a subway at Central Station this morning daring a torrential rainstorm which struck the City as thousands were on their way to work…

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Cloud-burst Drenches Thousands of Workers Storm Washes Boat Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 March 1944 · page 7

A cloud-burst drenched thousands of people who were on their way to work yesterday morning. Three inches of rain fell in two hours…

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Senate Storm Over Powers

The Sun · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday.--Angry scenes in which the Opposition charged the Government with "bludgeoning the Bill through" marked the closing stages of a stormy all-nighter debate in the…

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China Can’t Afford Emigrant Flood

Tribune · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 3

China does not wish any influx of Chinese workers into Australia after the war, because she will need , her own people for post-war reconstruction. THE newly appointed Director of…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, March 28, 1944 Eddies Before the Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 4

Mr. Churchill's world broadcast added little to his review of the war situation before the House of Commons a month ago,…

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Marines and Sailors Helped Storm Nikolaev

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 March 1944 · page 5

Moscow Radio announced that Nikolaev was finally captured yesterday by a co-ordinated attack, in which sailors and…

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Official Figures Show Flood of Synthetics

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 10

AMAZING figures have been revealed by the Commonwealth Statistician's office on the subtle importation of synthetic fibre material since the beginning of the war, that for some still more amazing reason, have not been…

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mr. and mrs. pott Storm in a Teacup

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 April 1944 · page 11

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German Balkan Army in Flight Red Army storms forward to reach frontier of Hungary and Czechoslovakia

The Sun · Saturday 1 April 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday.--German resistance at the frontiers of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Rumania is collapsing, says Reuter's Moscow correspondent…

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Ice Grips Ships in Atlantic Convoys Turned Back By Storms

The Sun · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.--Several ships of one convoy have been forced to turn back because of terrific storms in the Atlantic…

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BOOFHEAD Flooded

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 9

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