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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1946

1,433 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 72

Position Acute Following Flood Damage

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 2

COASTAL districts in which fencing was destroyed were in urgent need of uspplies of galvanised wire a…

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Flood Danger Again On North Coast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 3

The cyclone, which is threatening north coast areas with more floods, was moving to the southcast last night, bringing rain and…

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Flood Prevention by Water Conservation

Tribune · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 5

Recent heavy rains have brought floods to Queensland, Victoria and NSW. Homes have been destroyed, bridges and fences swept away, valuable stock drowned and even human have been lost in these torrential downpours. The soil ahss…

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50 Accident Calls During Heavy Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 3

Central District Ambulance was called out to nearly 50 accident cases last night, when the heavy rain made roads slippery,…

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100 Accidents in Night's Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 8

NEARLY 100 accidents, many of them in the city area, within two hours last night were attributed by police today to the heavy rain. SEVERAL accidents were serious--…

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100 Accidents in Night's Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 8

NEARLY 100 accidents, many of them in the city area, within two hours last night were attributed by police today to the heavy rain. SEVERAL accidents were serious--…

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100 Accidents in Night's Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 8

NEARLY 100 accidents, many of them in the city area, within two hoars last night were attributed by police today to the heavy rain. SEVERAL accidents were serious--…

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Weathered Cyclone

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 5

A.B. GEORGE READING (left), of Tasmania, lighting a cigarette for bearded shipmate A.B. Jim Byrne, of Melbourne, when the Canberra reached Sydney yesterday after fighting the cyclone on the way down from Rabaul…

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Flood Relief Scheme Full-scale Aid

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 12

A scheme to relieve distress caused by floods in North Coast districts has been approved by the Premier, Mr. McKell…

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Flood Risk Recedes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 3

A rapid wane in the influence of the cyclone which threatened New South Wales was reported yesterday…

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Government Aid Foe Flood Areas

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 7

The Premier (Mr. McKell) last night announced a plan to give financial aid to North Coast flood victims…

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Tokyo Mob Storms Premier's House First Pre-Election Violence From Our Staff Correspondent, Jack Percival, and A.A.P.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 1

TOKYO, April 7.—This afternoon I watched a mob of 10,000 persons storm the gates of the official residence of the Japanese Premier and hurl stones and bricks through the windows in Tokyo's first outbreak…

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Settlers, Cut Off By Floods, Are Short Of Food

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 1

BELLINGEN, Sunday.—Isolated since the big floods nearly a fortnight ago, settlers on the Upper Bellinger, beyond…

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Coast Farmers Marooned By Flood Waters

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 2

BELLINGEN, Monday.--Farmers on the Upper Bellinger River are living under almost pioneer conditions as a result…

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Gale Batters Shipping Melbourne Arrivals Delayed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.—A 60-mile-per-hour gale described by Captains as the worst for years lashed the Victorian coast to-day…

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Sydney Shivers As Big Gale Abates on Victorian Coast

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 2

While Sydney shivered this morning with its first foretaste of winter, the 60-miles-an-hour gale which raged round the Victorian coast yesterday was abating. SHIPS which arrived at Melbourne…

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Sydney Shivers,gale Abates Ship Limp To Melbourne Tugboat Near to Sinking

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 16

WHILE Sydney shivered this morning with its first foretaste of winter, the 60- miles-an-hour gale which raged…

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Sydney Shivers, Gale Abates Ships Limp To Melbourne Tugboat Near to Sinking

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 16

WHILE Sydney shivered this morning with its first foretaste of winter, the 60 miles-an-hour gale which raged…

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Sydney Shivers, Gale Abates Ships Limp To Melbourne Tugboat Near to Sinking

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 16

WHILE Sydney shivered this morning with its first foretaste of winter, the 60- miles-an-hour gale which raged…

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Sydney Shivers, Gale Abates Battered Ships Limp To Melb. Close Call for Navy Tugboat

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 4

WHILE Sydney shivered this morning with its first foretaste of winter, the 60-miles-on-hour gale which raged round the Victorian coast…

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