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Floods & storms, 1946

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Extensive Floods in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Torrential rain in west, southern and central Victoria has caused serious flooding and extensive…

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Extensive Floods in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Torrential rain in west, southern and central Victoria has caused serious flooding and extensive…

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Flood Stops Trains, Planes Water Three Feet Deep in Broken Hill Homes As Dam Bursts at B.h.p

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

WASHOUTS caused by the Darling River overflowing of Menindie have stopped all railway traffic over the 198 miles between Ivanhoe and Broken Hill. For a time the Adelaide-Broken Hill air service was held up…

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Extensive Floods in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Torrential rain in west, southern and central Victoria has caused serious flooding and extensive…

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Flood Stops Trains, Planes Water Three Feet Deep in Broken Hill Homes As Dam Bursts at B.h.p

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

WASHOUTS caused by the Darling River overflowing at Menindie have stopped all railway traffic over the 198 miles between Ivanhoe and Broken Hill. For a time the Adelaide-Broken Hill air service was held up…

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Flood Stops Trains, Planes Water Three Feet Deep in Broken Hill Homes As Dam Bursts at B.h.p

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

WASHOUTS caused by the Darling River overflowing at Menindie have stopped all railway traffic over the 198 miles between Ivanhoe and Broken Hill. The Adelaide-Broken Hill air service has also been suspended…

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Extensive Floods in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Torrential rain in west, southern and central Victoria has caused serious flooding and extensive…

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Extensive Floods in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Torrential rain in west, southern and central Victoria has caused serious flooding and extensive…

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Flood Stops Trains, Planes Water Three Feet Deep in Broken Hill Homes As Dam Bursts at B.h.p

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 4

WASHOUTS caused by the Darling River overflowing at Menindie have stopped all railway traffic over the 198 miles between Ivanhoe and Broken Hill. The Adelaide-Broken Hill air service has also been suspended…

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Planes Will Track Storms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 1

WASHINGTON, January 18 (A.A.P.).—As the result of successful war-time aerial reconnaissance of Pacific typhoons, the U.S…

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Storm in a Canberra Tea-cup

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 2

The "industrial dispute" concerning the dismissal from his hotel employment of Brigadier Schreiber's former valet, Mr. E. C. Fields, is to be reviewed by…

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Gale Havoc In Victoria; Rain For N.S.W. Dairies

The Sun · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Fierce gales lashing the S-W coast of Victoria have caused havoc among small boats and torrential rain has washed away many bridges and done much damage. In New South Wales, the parched South Coast dairying…

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Mothers' Escape In Flooded Bus

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday. -- Mothers held babies above their heads as they waded through water shoulder…

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River Bank Bursts in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 2

Between Condobolin and Bogan Gate the Lachlan River has burst its banks and is flooding the surrounding plains…

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Small Boy Drowned in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Seven - years - old Tony Lestrange was drowned by a rush of flood waters in a creek near Condobolin yesterday…

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Small Boy Drowned in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Seven - years - old Tony Lestrange was drowned by a rush of fiood waters in a creek near Condobolin yesterday…

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River Bank Bursts in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 2

Between Condobolin and Bogan Gate the Lachlan River has burst its banks and is flooding the surrounding plains…

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Small Boy Drowned in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Seven - years - old Tony Lestrange was drowned by a rush of flood waters in a creek near Condobolin yesterday…

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Small Boy Drowned in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Seven - years - old Tony Lestrange was drowned by a rush of flood waters in a creek near Condobolin yesterday…

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Gale Lashes Vic. Coast Huge Seas Cause Big Damage

Truth · Sunday 20 January 1946 · page 27

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—One of the fiercest gales in many years swept the Victorian coast last night. Huge seas were whipped up and many small craft…

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