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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 61

Fierce Gales Sweeping South Adelaide's Worst Pounding' Big Damage to Vessels

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 2

Fierce gales are lasEisng the southern States. The centre of the blow is somewhere out to sea between Adelaide and Melbourne…

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Fierce Gales Sweeping South Adelaide's Worst Pounding Big Damage to Vessels

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 2

Fierce gales are lashing me southern States. The centre of the blow is somewhere out to seat, between Adelaide and Melbourne…

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Air Service to Adelaide Resumed As Storm Abates

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 2

Normal air services from Sydney to Adelaide were resumed today, although unsettled weather conditions are still prevailing there. AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL, AIRWAYS and Trans…

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Air Service to Adelaide Resumed As Storm Abates

Daily Mirror · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 2

Normal air services from Sydney to Adelaide were resumed today although unsettled weather conditions are still prevailing there. AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL AIRWAYS and Trans…

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Hurricane Hits S. AUST. Storm On Way To N.S.W.

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 1

The most violent storm in South Australia for years blew an R.A.N. ship ashore and caused heavy damage…

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Gales, Heavy Rain Moving East Vic. Plane Services Disrupted

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 5

The storm which caused £1,000,000 damage in South Australia on Sunday has settled over Victoria. Yesterday gales and heavy rain seriously…

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Adelaide Storm Damage — Sloop Aground

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 1

TOP LEFT: The front was blown off this motor-car dealer's premises in Flinders Street during a storm—the worst in living memory—which struck Adelaide at the week-end. LOWER LEFT: The jetty at Glenelg, seaside suburb of Adelaide, was split into three sections by the storm. Parts of the jetty were washed three miles away, leaving only the centre and the end section where Archie Oliver Pudney, 59, of Glenelg, was marooned. AT RIGHT:…

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Gale Upsets Pro. Golfers

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. --A howling gale drove rain into the faces of the players as they hit off in the first…

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Ampol Golf Pickworth's 75 in Vic. Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Putting badly, Ossie Pickworth returned a 75 at Huntingdale today to lead the field at the end of the first round of the £7000 Ampol tournament which was…

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Ampol Golf Pickworth's 75 In Vic. Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Putting badly, Ossie Pickworth returned a 75 at Huhtingdale today to lead the field at the end of the first round of the £1000 Ampol tournament which was…

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Ampol Golf Pickworths 75 in Vic. Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Putting badly, Ossie Pickworth returned a 75 at Huntingdale today to lead the field at the end of the first round of the £1000 Ampol tournament which was…

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Ampol Golf Pickworth's 75 in Vic. Gale

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Putting badly, Ossie Pickworth returned a 75 at Huntingdale today to lead the field at the end of the first round of the £1000 Ampol tournament which was…

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Wharfies Storm Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 11

Hundreds of wharflaborers "flush" with weekly pay stormed the Welcome Inn Hotel, Sussex-street, when the…

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Floods Put Farms Out Of Action

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 5

IN the Born Ridge district alone, eight da[?]es had gone out of production in the past five years because of floods, secretary of the local…

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Flood Threat in North Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Ten inches of rain since Wednesday in the north-east of Victoria has swollen the…

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Flood Threat in North Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Ten inches of rain since Wednesday in the north-east of Victoria has, swollen the…

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Flood Threat in North Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Ten inches of rain since Wednesday in the north-east of Victoria has swollen the Broad…

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Flood Threat in North Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Ten inches of rain since Wednesday in the north-east of Victoria has swollen the…

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Flood Threat in North Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Ten inches of rain since Wednesday in the north-east of Victoria has swollen the…

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Ship's Cargo Rolls During Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 1

The 7,243-ton British freighter Tropic had her holds splintered by wildly rolling' cargo in a gale off…

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