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Floods & storms, 1946

1,433 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 72

Rising River Floods Farms

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 2

Heavy rain caused a sharp rise in the Murray River at Tocumwal yesterday forcing farmers to shift their stock to…

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Rising River Floods Farms

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 2

Heavy rain caused a sharp rise in the Murray River at Tocumwal yesterday forcing farmers to shift their stock to…

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Farmers Cut Off by Flooding of Murray River

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 11

HEAVY rain caused a sharp rise in the Murray River at Tocumwal yesterday forcing farmers to shift their stock to high ground, and cutting off several outlying…

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Farmers Cut Off by Flooding of Murray River

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 11

HEAVY rain caused a sharp rise in the Murray River at Tocumwal yesterday forcing farmers to shift their stock to high ground, and cutting off several outlying…

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Rising River Floods Farms

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 August 1946 · page 2

Heavy rain caused a sharp rise in the Murray River at Tocumwal yesterday forcing farmers to shift their stock to…

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Speaker Reproves Calwell: Utopian Figures Storm

The Sun · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday.-- A storm raged around the head of Minister for Information (Mr. Calwell) in the House of Representatives today after he had tried to defend his department's booklet for prospective immigrants, in which…

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Murray Floods; Water Commission Man "On His Toes"

The Land · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 9

BUSIEST man in the Deuiliquin area this week is Mr. G. B. Gibbs, popular district engineer of the Water Conservation and…

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Darwin Beer Draught Breaks With A Flood

The Sun · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 3

DARWIN, Friday.--Darwin's drought broke with a vengeance last night when the first hotel to reopen sold beer. It was sold hot for 29 a bottle, and bartenders were hard put to…

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Albury In Flood Path

The Sun · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 3

Flood waters are expected at Albury late today. The waters surging towards Albury come from melting snow…

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Snow Stops Bookings for Kosciusko Chalet Short Of Fresh Food Warning Against Flooding

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 5

AFTER 21 days of snow, and with every indication that the blizzard will return before nightfall, the…

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Snow Stops Bookings for Kosciusko Chalet Short Of Fresh Food Warning Against Flooding

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 5

AFTER 21 days of snow, and with every indication that the blizzard will return before nightfall, the…

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Snow Stops Bookings for Kosciusko Chalet Short Of Fresh Food Warning Against Flooding

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 5

AFTER 21 days of snow, and with every indication that the blizzard will return before nightfall, the…

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Snow Stops Bookings for Kosciusko Chalet Short Of Fresh Food Warning Against Flooding

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 5

AFTER 21 days of snow, and with every indication that the blizzard will return before nightfall, the…

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Snow Stops Bookings for Kosciusko Chalet Short Of Fresh Food Warning Against Flooding

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 5

AFTER 21 days of snow, and with every indication that the blizzard will return before nightfall, the…

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Snow Stops Bookings for Kosciusko Chalet Short Of Fresh Food Warning Against Flooding

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 5

AFTER 21 days of snow, and with every indication that the blizzard will return before nightfall, the…

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Snow Stops Bookings for Kosciusko Chalet Short Of Fresh Food Warning Against Flooding

Daily Mirror · Friday 2 August 1946 · page 5

AFTER 21 days of snow, and with every indication that the blizzard will return before nightfall, the…

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Horses Perish in Bass Strait Gale

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 August 1946 · page 3

LAUNCESTON, Saturday.--Five horses were dead and another so badly injured that it had to be destroyed aboard the steamer Larandah, which berthed at Launceston from Melbourne this morning…

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Horses Perish in Bass Strait Gale

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 August 1946 · page 3

LAUNCESTON, Saturday.--Five horses were dead and another so badly injured that it had to be destroyed aboard the steamer Larandah, which berthed at Launceston from Melbourne this morning…

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Horses Perish in Bass Strait Gale

Daily Mirror · Saturday 3 August 1946 · page 3

LAUNCESTON, Saturday.--Five horses were dead and another so badly injured that it had to be destroyed aboard the steamer Larandah, which berthed at Launceston from Melbourne this morning…

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Five Horses Die on Gale-lashed Ship

The Sun · Saturday 3 August 1946 · page 3

LAUNCESTON, Saturday. -- Five horses died in terrific seas while being taken from Melbourne to Launceston in the 500-ton Holyman freighter…

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