Food From Plane To Flood Victims
BRISBANE, Saturday. -- Five days supply of food is to be dropped by plane at Baratta, about 26 miles from Townsville…
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Gale disorganises ocean yacht races
Norn won the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club's Basin Cup race yesterday after a howling 40-mile-an-hour southerly gale had disorganised contestants…
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Mosman's sixth wicket pair, Horsfield and Gulliver, batted for ten minutes during a heavy…
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SEVERAL valuable yachts competing in the ocean race for the Basin Cup were badly battered when caught by an unexpected southerly off Broken Bay yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Food by boat to flooded homes BRISBANE
FOOD for 50 families marooned in the flooded Haughton River (Q) district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eighteen-footers Race in Heavy Rain
Boats competing in the N.S.W. 18-footer Sailing League's race on the Harbour yesterday had to contend with incessant rain. This was the scene off Bradley's Head, with Joyce, Bounty, and Heather in the foreground. Othello won the race…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone Strikes Mauritius
PORT LOUIS (Mauritius). Feb. 9 (A.A.P.).—A cyclone, described as the worst in 60 years, yesterday struck the island of Rodriguz and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone Shares at 40
Tan Potter and Co., Melbourne Sha[?]brokers, have placed 100,00 £1 share in Cyclone Co. of Australia Ltd. Privately at 40 plus brokerage…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sunspots May Bring Storms
Freak-sized sunspots were scattered about the surface of the sun today. and an aurora may appear either…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damage Through Flood, High Tide
EROSION and washaways last week caused damage amounting to £20,000 at Margate, a seaside resort 20 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods Creating Food Shortages North Queensland Towns Cut Off Falls Reaching Central West
FOOD shortages are developing in North Queensland towns cut off by flood waters. Giru, 29 miles south of Townsville…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Sticky Weather Ahead Rain Benefit In Some Areas Wide Floodings in Queensland
SYDNEY can prepare for hot weather, rivalling the sticky conditions of last, week, according to Weather Bureau officials. THE cool change on Saturday and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →No Storms Yet From Sunspots
Effect of large spots scattered about the surface of the sun was not likely to be felt for some days it was stated at Riverview…
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LONDON, Monday (D.T.S.).--English captain Walter Hammond may provide a cricket sensation when he writes his official…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Gale of the "Gundagai"
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Less Profit In 1946 For Cyclone Co
Cyclone Co. of Australia Ltd. and its subsidiaries earned £21,737 net profit for the year ended June 30 last, compared…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Rain Deluge Threatens Northern River Floods
The deluge which has broken the drought in north-western New South Wales now threatens severe floodings on all northern rivers. Gales and rough seas are expected in the wake of a cyclone which, moving slowly south-east, was 30 miles north of Brisbane at…
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A cyclone moving down the Queensland coast from Hervey Bay, Central Queensland, is likely…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday.--Heavy gales whipping northern California have injured many people…
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Country stock and station agents said yesterday that heavy rain on Tuesday night had broken the drought in north -western New South Wales…
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