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Floods & storms, 1947

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Epic Ride Sn Floods To Recover Body

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 11

BUNDABERG, Monday. -- Constable R. A. Bunton of Gin Gin, arrived at Kiolonga Station early yesterday morning…

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Epic Ride In Floods To Recover Body

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 11

BUNDABERG, Monday. -- Constable R. A. Bunton of Gin, Gin, arrived at Kiolonga Station early yesterday morning…

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Gale Kills 25 In U.S. And Canada

The Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday.--One of the worst winter gales for years has taken 15 lives in US and 10 in Canada. The storm deprived Quebec of…

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Storm Smashes U.S. Collier In Two

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 4

NEW YORK, Monday (A.A.P.).--An American collier today broke in halves in a severe storm off the Atlantic coast…

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Floods Cut Off Tiny Township

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 5

Angledool (population 92), a township on the far north of New South Wales, has been isolated by floods for two weeks, and…

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GALE or the "Gundagai"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1947 · page 11

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Intense Storm Sweeps Canada

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1947 · page 1

MONTREAL, Mar. 4 (A.A.P.). —One of the winter's most intense storms swept Eastern Canada on Sunday and Monday…

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Gale, Blizzard, Floods Cause Chaos In Britain

The Sun · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.--Described as the worst in living memory, still another blizzard is lashing Britain from South Wales almost to the North Sea. Bristol and Birmingham are paralysed, and Devon has…

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Gale Causes Big Loss Of Fruit

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 16

ABOUT 30,000 cases of fruit, valued at approximately £15,000, were destroyed during a gale which swept the Young district recently…

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Floods and Erosion Follow Drought

The Land · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 1

This washaway occurred on the Mitchell Highway, between Nyngan and Girilambone, in the west of New South Wales, following…

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Backyard Water Floods Home

Tribune · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 3

BALMAIN backyard (left) is flooded after each shower and water floods through the kitchen. Council has done nothing about this, but an inspector made the tenants get…

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A dental invention raised a storm

The Sun · Sunday 9 March 1947 · page 2

A dentist had started a tempest in San Francisco. He said that thumb sucking in children made their, teeth stick out…

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Plane In Storm; Passengers Hurt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 3

DARWIN, Sunday.—Four passengers on the Qantas flying-boat, travelling between Bowen and Darwin, were thrown upwards…

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Flood Menace Follows Thaw In Britain Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, March 10.— Britain's Arctic spell, which has lasted almost two months, appears to have ended—but…

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Gale of the "Gundagai"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 12

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McKELL Takes Oath of Office Colorful Ceremony In Floodlit Senate Chamber

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 5

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--In the glare of floodlights and to the whir of newsreel cameras, William John McKell was sworn in at noon today as the twelfth Governor-General…

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey & CURLEY Flooded Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 25

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey & CURLEY Flooded Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 25

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey & CURLEY Flooded Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 25

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Daily Mirror Stories in Pictures Bluey & CURLEY Flooded Out

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 25

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