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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1947

1,687 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 85

London Flooded by Sudden Rain Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, struck London during the lunch- hour yesterday. VISIBILITY was "reduced almost to…

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London Flooded by Sudden Rain Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 8

LONDON, Saturday.--A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, struck London during the lunch -hour, yesterday. VISIBILITY was reduced almost to…

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London Flooded by Sudden Rain Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, struck London during the lunch- hour yesterday. VISIBILITY was reduced almost to…

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London Flooded by Sudden Rain Storm

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 8

LONDON, Saturday.--A terrific thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, struck London during the lunch -hour yesterday. VISIBILITY was reduced almost to…

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Water Pours Into Commons In London Deluge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

LONDON, June 27 (A.A.P.).— Water streamed through the bombbattered roof of the Houses of Parliament when one of London's…

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Battered Ships Seek Shelter From Gales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 5

Two ships yesterday put into Australian ports because they had been heavily battered by gales off the coast. Schooner: The schooner…

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Nine Gales in 22 DAYS Huia's Long Trip

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 5

After her most difficult Tasman crossing in 54 years, the auxiliary schooner Huia put into Sydney yesterday…

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92 m.p.h. Gale Rocks Wellington

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Saturday.-- Wellington had its worst day and night within memory yesterday, when a southerly gale swept Cook Strait and held up shipping. THE nightly express steamer service between the North and…

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92 m.p.h. Gale Rocks Wellington

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Saturday.--Wellington had its worst day and night within memory yesterday when a southerly gale swept Cook Strait and held up shipping. THE nightly -express steamer service between the North and…

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92 m.p.h. Gale Rocks Wellington

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Saturday.--Wellington had its worst day and night within memory yesterday, when a southerly gale swept Cook Strait and held up shipping. THE nightly express steamer service between the North and…

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92 m.p.h. Gale Rocks Wellington

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

AUCKLAND Saturday.--Wellington had its worst day and night within memory yesterday, when a southerly gale swept Cook Strait and held up shipping. THE nightly express steamer service between the North and…

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92 m.p.h. Gale Rocks Wellington

Daily Mirror · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

AUCKLAND Saturday.--Wellington had its worst day and night within memory yesterday, when a southerly gale swept Cook Strait and held up shipping. THE nightly express steamer service between the North and…

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96 m.p.h. Gale Lashes Wellington, N.Z.

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 1

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—The worst gale in the history of New Zealand lashed parts of the Dominion…

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Storm in the D.T.'s TEA-CUP

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

Sydney Daily Telegraph, of June 13, carried a passionate first leading article against T.A.A. "Here is bureaucracy in full bloom," shrilled the D.T. Burden of complaint was that two…

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Rainstorm Floods Houses of Parlt

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).--Rain poured through the bomb-damaged roof of the Houses of Parliament, and splashed Ministers sitting in the…

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U.s. Floods: 40,000 Homeless

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 June 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, June 27 (A.A.P.). —Floods in Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri during the past three weeks have caused crop damage…

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New Zealand Parlt. springs a leak after heavy rain

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 29 June 1947 · page 12

AUCKLAND, Sat. -- If heavy rain continues in Wellington, New Zealand legislators wilt have to use umbrellas inside, as well as outside, Parliament buildings. After a week of amost continuous rain, which in the past…

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Mercy plane is turned back by violent gale Wellington (Nz)

The Sun · Sunday 29 June 1947 · page 6

THREE attempts yesterday by the pilot of a Proctor aircraft to take a patient from Palmerston North to Dunedin failed in the teeth of a violent southerly gale…

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He practised on a flooded piano

The Sun · Sunday 29 June 1947 · page 2

In a Paris music studio this week an old maestro, hunched over a grand piano. His chin got down near the keys…

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Others in it besides Rank Dangers of flooding the American market HOLLYWOOD

The Sun · Sunday 29 June 1947 · page 18

BRITISH producer Herbert Wilcox, visiting Hollywood with wife Anna Neagle, this week went into what might be called almost a tirade against J. Arthur Rank, who is also here…

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