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Floods & storms, 1946

1,433 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 72

Skymaster Forced to Land After Battle with Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 November 1946 · page 15

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The A.N.A. Skymaster Lackrana battled through heavy clouds and violent head winds for seven hours over the Great Australian Bight last night…

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Skymaster Forced to Land After Battle with Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 November 1946 · page 15

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The A.N.A. Skymaster Lackrana battled through heavy clouds and violent head winds for seven hours over the Great Australian Bight last night…

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Skymaster Forced to Land After Battle with Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 November 1946 · page 15

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The A.N.A. Skymaster Lackrana battled through heavy clouds and violent head winds for seven hours over the Great Australian Bight last night…

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Skymaster Forced to Land After Battle with Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 November 1946 · page 15

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The A.N.A. Skymaster Lackrana battled through heavy clouds and violent head winds for seven hours over the Great Australian Bight last night…

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Skymaster Forced to Land After Battle with Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 November 1946 · page 15

KALGOORLIE, Friday. -- The A.N.A. Skymaster Lackrana battled through heavy clouds and violent head winds for seven hours over the Great Australian Bight last night…

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Floods In Britain

The Sun · Saturday 30 November 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. -- With a gale still raging in the English Channel, heavy rain is causing extensive, but so far shallow,…

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Kempsey Hit By Storm

Truth · Sunday 1 December 1946 · page 55

KEMPSEY, Saturday. — One of the worst electrical storms in Kempsey's history hit the town this afternoon and the…

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Baffin Bay at Flood Tide

Truth · Sunday 1 December 1946 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Saturday. — Adding to the In any glaring reversals that have been common in Melbourne of late, the…

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Heavy Floods in English Rivers

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 December 1946 · page 9

LONDON, Sat.--Heavy rains have caused floods in many parts of southern England. The Thames has overflowed its banks…

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Destruction In Wake Of Gale Near Lismore

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 4

LISMORE, Monday.--During the height of a 60 m.p.h. cyclonic storm, which unroofed houses and uprooted trees in…

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Destruction In Wake Of Gale Near Lismore

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 4

LISMORE, Monday.--During the height of a 60 m.p.h. cyclonic storm, which unroofed houses and uprooted trees in…

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Destruction In Wake Of Gale Near Lismore

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 4

LISMORE, Monday.--During the height of a 60 m.p.h. cyclonic storm, which unroofed houses and uprooted trees in…

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Destruction In Wake Of Gale Near Lismore

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 4

LISMORE, Monday.-- During the height of a 60 m.p.h. cyclonic storm,'which unroofed houses and uprooted trees in…

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North Coast Ferry Tossed By Storm

The Sun · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 1

LISMORE, Monday.--A river ferry was tossed about, several houses were unroofed arid trees uprooted by a 60 mph cyclonic storm which lashed the North Coast late yesterday…

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Brisbane Storm Cuts Sydney Telephone Line

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 7

BRISBANE, Sunday.--An electric storm which struck Dinmore, about 18 miles from Brisbane, at 7.30 tonight delayed trains and cut off interstate telephone services from 7.30 p.m. until 11.45 p.m…

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Storm Over U.s. Critic of Russia

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 December 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday.--Several U.S. Congressmen yesterday demanded the recall of Brigadier-General Elliott Roosevelt from…

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Heavy Rain Floods Test Wicket

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 December 1946 · page 1

Nearly two inches of rain fell on the Brisbane Test wicket between 10.15 last night and one…

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Skipper's Good Work In Cyclone

The Sun · Tuesday 3 December 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday. -- Daring seamanship of a Darnley islander, Harry Pitt, saved the crews of a…

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Six Vessels Lost Cyclone In North

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 December 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday. — Four privately-owned pearling luggers and two island industries cutters were lost in a cyclone in Torres…

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Terrific Storm Hits Brisbane Test Ground Play Called Off For Day

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 December 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--A terrific storm broke over the Brisbane Test ground at 4.35 this afternoon. There will be no further play today. England has lost five wickets for 116 runs. Players had left the field…

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