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Floods & storms, 1947

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Severe Gales Lashing Ships In Bass Strait

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Terrific gales, which have battered shipping in Bass Strait for four days, are piling up mountainous seas again today. A STORM warning was broadcast…

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Severe Gales Lashing Ships In Bass Strait

Daily Mirror · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Terrific gales, which have battered shipping in Bass Strait for four days, are piling up mountainous seas again today. A STORM warning was broadcast…

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Heavy Damage By Storms In Tasmania

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 17

HOBART, Wednesday.— Violent thunderstorms, with terrific winds, at times up to 70 miles an hour, lashed…

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A Thunderstorm

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 22

Our hiking expedition in the Nangar Mountains had been perfect, without any mishaps, and now, at half-past four, we were…

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£50,000 Damage In Tasmanian Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 6

Tasmanian floods, which have caused about £50,000 damage in the past five days, are subsiding. Derwent Valley families yesterday began to return to homes…

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Tide Flood In Suburb High Tides, Gales in Australia, N.Z.

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 2

Sydney and Wellington (N.Z.) last night experienced abnormally high tides. At Wellington a record tide of six feet flooded basements in city, buildings up to 300 yards from the harbor…

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High Tides, Gales in Australia, N.z

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 2

Sydney and Wellington (N.Z.) last night experienced abnormally high tides. At Wellington a record tide of six feet flooded basements in city buildings up to 300 yards from the harbor…

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Communist Storm In Hungarian Parlt

The Sun · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 7

LONDON, Friday.--In an uproarious session of the Hungarian Parliament, Communist members stormed and shouted while other members attacked the new Government…

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Storm Threatens If Preference Goes: Fruitmen Determined From Rupert Lockwood

Tribune · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 7

SHEPPARTON (Vic.)—Reply of Goulburn Valley fruitgrowers’ leader, Bill Young, to my question, “What will you do if Empire preference is surrendered at Geneva?” left no doubt about the determination of fruit interests to prevent a tariff sell-out to America…

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Weird Winds at Mt. Gambier Freak Storms Demolish Buildings Hotel Balcony's Soaring Flight

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 12

ADELAIDE, Friday.--Mount Gambier is living up to its reputation for producing the weirdest windstorms in Australia…

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Abnormal Tides in N.S.W. AND N.Z. Two Drowned, One Hurt During Gales Higher Seas in Sydney Tonight

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 2

DAMAGE was caused in Sydney and Wellington (N.Z.) last night by abnormally high tides. At Wellington a tide similar to that…

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Gifts for British Flood Relief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 11

The following additional donations to the Red Cross Society's British Flood Relief Appeal have been received by the "Herald," and forwarded to the Red…

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Sick Man S 4-Day Ordeal at Sea Nearly Drowned In Yacht's Flooded Cabin

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 7

COFF'S HARBOR, Thursday.--Sydney yachtsman Gordon Taylor, 30, who arrived exhausted in Coff's Harbor last night in his 45ft. cutter Utiekah II, said tonight that he almost drowned at sea when he spent two days lying seasick in a flooded cabin…

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Abnormal Tide Causes Floods Water Invades Tennis Courts, Shops

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 5

An abnormally high fide last night flooded homes in Drummoyne and North Brighton, and threatened a Bobbin Head refreshment room…

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Cut Off By Flood Tide

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 2

Mr. Alex Taylor points to where the abnormal tide at North Brighton last night reached the entrance t, his fish and oyster…

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Freak Tidal Floodings In N. Zealand, N.S. W.

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 9

DAMAGE was caused in Sydney and Wellington (N.Z.) last night by abnormally high tides. AT Wellington a tide similar to that which preceded the…

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Cut Off By Flood Tide

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 21

Mr. Alex Taylor points to where the abnormal tide at North Brighton last night reached the entrance. his fish and oyster…

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Freak Tidal Flooding In N. Zealand, N.S. W.

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 9

DAMAGE was caused in Sydney and Wellington (N.Z.) last night by abnormally high tides. AT Wellington a tide similar to that which preceded the…

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Cut Off By Flood Tide

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 2

Mr. Alex Taylor points to where the abnormal tide at North Brighton last night reached the entrance t, his fish and oyster…

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Freak Tidal Floodings In N. Zealand, N.S. W.

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 9

DAMAGE was caused in Sydney and Wellington (N.Z.) last night by abnormally high tides. AT Wellington a tide similar to that which preceded the…

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