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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1946

1,433 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 72

Murray Flood Danger Disappears River Almost Back To Normal Fine Days, Cold Nights in Sydney

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 July 1946 · page 14

ALMOST down to normal, the Murray River at Albury is still falling and danger of further flooding has disappeared. REPORTS from the Murrumbidgee…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Wrecks Camp

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--One of the fiercest gales ever to hit Brighton completely wrecked the International Children's camp at…

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Gale Checks Flying Beat

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

ALIGHTING in a 50 m.p.h. gale at Rose Bay this afternoon, this Tasman flying boat from Auckland took nearly half…

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Gale Checks Flying Boat

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 3

ALIGHTING in a 50 m.p.h. gale at Rose Bay this afternoon, this Tasman flying boat from Auckland took nearly half…

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Fishermen Rescued in Heavy Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 1

ABOVE: Two elderly fishermen, who refused to give their names, photographed in their launch last night, after it had…

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Fishermen Rescued In Gale Off Palm Beach

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 1

Two elderly fishermen, in a 16-foot motor launch, were rescued in a gale four miles off Palm Beach by three local residents last night. [?] two fishermen, however,…

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Collier Fighting Gale to Reach Coal-starved City

The Sun · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--Collier Ocean Pride, making three knots, is battling with a gale to get coal to Adelaide faced with a complete break-down. "Arrival time indefinite," skipper of the collier radioed today…

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Blizzard Revives Flood Fear

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 5

Blizzard conditions have returned to the snow country with such intense fury that Weather Bureau officials again…

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Blizzard Revives Flood Fear

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 4

Blizzard conditions have returned to the snow country with such intense fury that Weather Bureau officials again…

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Flood Warnings in Low Victorian Areas

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 July 1946 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- With further heavy rains in the north and north-east, adding to already swollen rivers, floods are feared…

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Gales in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- Heavy seas and gales continued to batter the Victorian coast, and storm warnings to shipping in Bass trait…

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Gales in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- Heavy seas and gales continued to batter the Victorian coast, and storm warnings to shipping in Bass trait…

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Gales in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- Heavy seas and gales continued to batter the Victorian coast, and storm warnings to shipping in Bass trait…

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Gales in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- Heavy seas and gales continued to batter the Victorian coast, and storm warnings to shipping in Bass trait…

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Gales in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE Thursday.-- Heavy seas and gales continued to batter the Victorian coast, and storm warnings to shipping in Bass troit…

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Blizzards, Floods in N.S.W. 58 m.p.h. Gale In City Holds Up Air Services

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 9

A violent blizzard is raging in the Southern Alps. Mount Kosciusko, Kiandra, and Adaminaby were swept by a 60-mile-an-hour gale last…

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