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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 61

Floods Isolate Fishing Village

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 April 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The fishing resort of Mario, in East Gippsland, is still isolated by flood waters today, although…

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Westerly Gusts at Gale Force

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 April 1948 · page 4

Westerly winds in Sydney yesterday blew in gusts of gale force up to 54 miles an hour in the afternoon, the Weather…

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Storm Closes Vic. Aerodrome

Daily Mirror · Saturday 24 April 1948 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Bad weather conditions closed Essendon Aerodrome at 10.40 last night. It is still closed today. FOUR planes from Sydney…

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Cyclone Wrecks Town; Five Dead

Truth · Sunday 25 April 1948 · page 5

NEW YORK, Saturday.—Five persons were killed and scores of others injured yesterday when a cyclone swept the…

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Heavy Rain Mars the Anzac Day Parade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 April 1948 · page 3

Rain fell on marchers as they swung down Martin Place yesterday in the Anzac parade. Some raised umbretlas…

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12 Die in Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 3

WINNIPEG, Tuesday. --Twelve have been drowned in floods in Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces…

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12 Die in Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 5

WINNIPEG, Tuesday. -- Twelve have been drowned in floods in Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces…

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12 Die in Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 5

WINNIPEG, Tuesday.--Twelve have been drowned in floods in Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces…

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12 Die in Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 3

WINNIPEG, Tuesday.-- Twelve have been drowned in floods in Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces…

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12 Die in Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 5

WINNIPEG, Tuesday. -- Twelve have been drowned in floods in Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces…

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12 Die in Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 5

[?]INNIFEG, Tuesday. -- Twelve have been drown[?] in floods in Saskatchewan [?] Manitoba provinces…

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12 Die in Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 5

WINNIPEG, Tuesday. -- Twelve have been drowned in floods in Saskatchewan and Manitoba provinces…

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Floods, Gales in Queensland

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- South-east Queensland has been lashed by torrential rain and gales since yesterday morning…

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Floods, Gales in Queensland

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.--South-east Queensland has been lashed by torrential rain and gales since yesterday morning. A CYCLONE, which is…

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Floods, Gales in Queensland

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday.--South-east Queensland has been lashed by torrential rain and gales since yesterday morning. A CYCLONE, which is…

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Floods, Gales in Queensland

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- South-east Queensland has been lashed by torrential rain and gales since yesterday morning. A CYCLONE, which is…

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Floods, Gales in Queensland

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday. --South-east Queensland has been lashed by torrential rain and gales since yesterday morning…

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Floods, Gales in Queensland

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- South-east Queensland has been lashed by torrential rain and gales since yesterday morning. A CYCLONE, which is…

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Deluge washes out Stradbroke

The Sun · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 10

BRISBANE, Saturday.--The QTC Stradbroke Day meeting has been postponed until Monday because of cyclonic rain which has deluged Brisbane in the past week…

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Cyclone Again Hits Q'land, Big Floods

The Sun · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday.--Second cyclone of 1948 has flooded 400 miles of the south Queensland coastline from Rockhampton to the NSW border, dislocating shipping and road traffic…

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