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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1945

773 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 39

Storms In Far North-West

The Land · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 5

Towards the end of the year storms swept the Tibooburra district, and considerable damage was occasioned on a number of properties…

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Water From New Guinea, But Let Us Use Our Own Floods First

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 15

A SUGGESTION that water should be brought to Australia from New Guinea was made in the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly recently by Mr. J. T. Lang. Well known Australian author, Mr. Ion L. Idriess, had made the same suggestion in the "Farmer arid Settler" on December 3, 1942…

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Four Trapped in Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 3

Rain caused damage in several country towns yesterday, and a woman and her two daughters were trapped by flood waters…

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Thunderstorms Aid Drought Areas Scattered Rain Over State

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 3

Thunderstorms over widely-separated areas have given temporary relief to some of the drought-stricken parts of the State. Up to 350 points fell in some centres, but…

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State's Widespread Rainstorms Flooding Caused By Cloudbursts In Two Districts

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 January 1945 · page 5

Cloudburst's yesterday caused floods in Canberra and Bathurst districts. Dairying districts benefited by general light rain…

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Flood Follows Drought Our Special Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 3

SINGLETON, Friday.—Parson's Creek, which has been dry for nearly two years, flooded this morning and swept away a…

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Sharp Storm Hits Sydney

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 3

A thunder storm broke over Sydney this afternoon, about 2 o'clock, and 40 points of rain fell in an hour in the city. A…

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Caught In Big Storm

The Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 1

Tropic Rain: Parramattaroad, at the foot of Taverner's Hill, Petersham, was flooded by a sudden storm…

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Sharp Storm Hits Sydney

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 3

A thunder storm broke over Sydney this afternoon, about 2 o'clock, and 40 points of rain fell in an hour in the city. A…

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Heavy Rain in West Predicted Drought-Breaking Falls Expected In Next Few Days

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 7

The only rain reported to the Weather Bureau yesterday was on the South Coast and in the Nyngan district (Central West), parts of which, received falls of two inches…

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Sydney Hit By Tropic Storm

The Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 3

A monsoonal storm struck Sydney this afternoon and torrential rain quickly flooded streets in some suburbs. The storm first broke over the…

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Vegetable Crops Ruined Storm Damages Tomatoes, Beans; Poultry Drown

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1945 · page 7

Tomato and bean crops on farms at Edensor Park, near Liverpool were damaged by hail yesterday. Poultry on farms in low-lying parts of the…

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Storms May Return At Week-end

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 3

Further monsoonal storms are expected in Sydney at the week-end or early next week, and the Divisional Meteorologist,…

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Torrential Rain Storm

The Land · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 5

According to reports from Kingsdale, near Goulburn, nearly seven inches of rain fell during a storm on Thursday last, and poured down…

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Death of Child in Storm Drain

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 15

A FALL into a storm water channel, seven feet deep, off Clarke Rd., North Sydney, on December 25, was responsible for the death by…

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Death of Child in Storm Drain

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 15

A FALL into a storm water channel, seven feet deep, off Clarke Rd., North Sydney, on December 25, was responsible for the death by…

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Death of Child in Storm Drain

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 15

A FALL into a storm water channel, seven feet deep, off Clarke Rd., North Sydney, on December 25, was responsible for the death by…

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Death of Child in Storm Drain

Daily Mirror · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 15

A FALL into a storm water channel, seven feet deep, off Clarke Rd., North Sydney, on December 25, was responsible for the death by…

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Cyclone Wrecks Mauritius

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 3

PORT LOUIS, Jan. 19 (A.A.P.). —A three-day cyclone has devasted the whole of the island of Mauritius…

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The Woman and the Storm

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 21

WITH troubled eyes the woman watched the coming of the storm. She stood on the threshold of the hut, gazing into the livid twilight, and holding the door against the impatient swacks of wind…

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