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Floods & storms, 1946

1,433 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 72

Gale Whips Big Seas As Rainstorms Lash City

The Sun · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 2

Mountainous seas, whipped by a southerly gale, are pounding the NSW coast, while Sydney and suburbs, after a night of storm violence, were lashed today by intermittent driving rain. Two people were killed and many injured in last night's storm, which blew off roofs, smashed windows, raxed fences and…

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Terrific Gale Strikes Flats Brick Wall, Awnings Torn Away Boat Damaged by Big Seas

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 4

A 60-MILES-AN-HOUR gale at today ripped a way part of Mansion Flats, Military Road, Watson's Bay…

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Only Deluge Will Stop Races To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 12

To-day's meeting of the Sydney Turf Club will be held at Rosehill unless there is a deluge of rain, the chairman, Mr. W. W. Hill, made…

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Roops Return During Heavy Coastal Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 1

ABOVE: Mountainous seas, lashed up by a heavy southerly gale, pounded the coast yesterday. This picture was taken at…

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FORECAST Wartime Promises Are About to be Made Good Civilian developments of wartime scientific principles are soon to flood on to peacetime markets. The public has already seen some of the promised new products: during the next few years they will make life easier, safer and more pleasant for the average man

The World's News · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 13

PLASTICS and the wide range of new synthetics are well clear of the laboratory now, and next year you will be buying a large…

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TODAY: Medicine, Science The cattalo could face the storm TIME

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 June 1946 · page 38

Canadian cattlemen wanted a new breed of cattle. They wanted a breed that could…

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Criminal Influx From Other States Floods N.S.W. Gaols

Truth · Sunday 23 June 1946 · page 20

HIGH cost to "N.S.W. taxpayers of gaoling interstate lawbreakers was illustrated in cases before…

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World Was Stormy: Gale and Snow In N.S.W.: Tornadoes In America

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 1

WHILE Sydney was swept by a 60-mile-an-hour wind with severe rainstorms, and record snow-falls blocked main roads in the southern…

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Floodlights To Protect Children

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 4

Claiming it would afford protection at night for children, eliminate the risk of loss of equipment by thieves and vandals, and also keep cut a lot of undesirables, after dark, the Warnock Park local committee has asked Holroyd Council to floodlight the…

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Hundreds Perish in Severe Korean Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 6

SEOUL, Wednesday.--Several hundred Koreans have perished in one town alone as a result of floods in Smith Korea. THE floods followed several days of heavy rain…

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Victims of Flood in Townsville Get Grant

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 7

TOWNSVILLE, Wednesday.--Claims for assistance numbering 322 have been received from victims of the flood in March, which…

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Hundreds Die In Korean Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 3

SEOUL, Wednesday.--Several hundred Koreans have perished in one town alone as a result of floods in South Korea. THE floods followed Several days of…

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Hundreds Perish in Severe Korean Floods

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 6

SEOUL, Wednesday.--Several hundred Koreans have perished in one town alone as a result of floods in South Korea. THE floods followed several days of heavy rain…

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Victims of Flood in Townsville Get Grant

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 26 June 1946 · page 7

TOWNSVILLE, Wednesday.--Claims for assistance numbering 322 have been received from victims of the flood in March, which…

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Flood Rains Promised in July by Inigo Jones

The Land · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 31

CROHAMHURST OBSERVATORY, QLD., Thursday: Southern sunspots have hitherto been too weak to produce any general rains. They have…

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Graziers Claim Hume Dam Robs Them of Flood Water Carrying Capacity Down 40%

The Land · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 7

SINCE the advent of the Hume Reservoir, carrying capacity of land adjoining the main rivers had been reduced at least 40 per cent., and f[?] bullocks from the area had almost ceased being sent to Victorian meat markets as a result…

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Many Die in Korean Floods One Town Under Water U.S. Troops Run Short of Food

Daily Mirror · Friday 28 June 1946 · page 9

SEOUL, Friday. -- More than 350 people have been drowned by floods which have caused widespread destruction in Korea…

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Heavy Rain Falling In Three States

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 4

HEAVY rain is falling in three States--Victoria, N.S.W. and Queensland--and flood Warnings are expected in…

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Heavy Rain Falling In Three States

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 4

HEAVY rain is falling in three States--Victoria, N.S.W. and Queensland--and flood warnings are expected in…

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Heavy Rain Falling In Three States

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 June 1946 · page 4

HEAVY rain is falling in three States--Victoria, N.S.W. and Queensland--and flood warnings are expected in…

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