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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 61

Storm Blacks Out Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday.— A severe electrical storm, accompanied by hail and torrential rain, which struck…

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Storm Drenches Theatre Audience

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--A violent electrical storm, with hail and torrential rain, drenched the audience in the Majestic Theatre tonight…

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Farmer Pumped off Flooded Property; Saved His Crops

The Land · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 27

A FARMER in the Swan Bay district pumped water covering 30 acres of his low-lying property back…

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Floods On Richmond Cause Heavy Loss

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 4

ALTHOUGH the N.S.W. Government apparently disregarded the fact that the Richmond River district was in a…

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Floods After N.z. Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 6

AUCKLAND, N.Z. Friday (A.A.P.).--The mayor of Victoria, in the Gisborne area, has ordered the…

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Elizabeth Takes Parisians by Storm France's Rousing Reception Communists Pay Tribute

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

PARIS, Saturday. -- Princess Elizabeth has taken Paris by storm since her arrival in the capital yesterday. All Paris evening papers carry…

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Elizabeth Takes Parisians by Storm France's Rousing Reception Communists Pay Tribute

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

PARIS, Saturday. -- Princess Elizabeth has taken Paris by storm since her arrival in the capital yesterday. All Paris evening papers carry…

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Elizabeth Takes Parisians by Storm Warm Reception From French Communists Pay Tribute

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

PARIS, Saturday. -- Princess Elizabeth has taken Paris by storm since her arrival in the capital yesterday. All Paris evening makers carry…

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Elizabeth Takes Parisians by Storm Warm Reception From French Communists Pay Tribute

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

PARIS, Saturday. -- Princess Elizabeth has taken Paris by storm since her arrival in the capital yesterday. All Paris evening papers carry…

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Elizabeth Has Taken Paris by Storm France's Great Welcome Crowds Line Royal Route

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

PARIS, Saturday. -- Princess Elizabeth has taken Paris by storm since her arrival in the capital yesterday. All Paris evening papers carry…

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Floods in Nz

The Sun · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 12

AUCKLAND, -- Thousands of sheep and cattle swept to sea by floods in Gisborne 500 sheep swept from one farm, 400 cattle…

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Amazing Escapes As Flood Water Sweeps N. Zealand

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N. Z.), Saturday. -- There were many amazing escapes from drowning in the floods which swept the east coast of North Island yesterday, causing big stock and property losses. A FARMER'S wife and four…

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Amazing Escapes As Flood Water Sweeps N. Zealand

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N. Z.), Saturday. -- There were many amazing escapes from drowning in the floods which swept the east coast of North Island yesterday, causing big stock and property losses. A FARMER'S wife and four…

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Amazing Escapes As Flood Water Sweeps N. Zealand

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N. Z.), Saturday. -- There were many amazing escapes from drowning in the floods which swept the east coast of North Island yesterday, causing big stock and property losses. A FARMER'S wife and four…

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Widespread N. Z. Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N. Z.), Saturday. -- A mars was drowned and another is missing, believed drowned, in unprecedented floods which swept the east…

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Amazing Escapes As Flood Water Sweeps N. Zealand

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

WELLINGTON (N. Z.), Saturday. -- There were many amazing Escapes from drowning in the floods which swept the east coast of North Island yesterday, causing big stock and property losses. A FARMER'S wife and four…

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Triple Portrait That Caused Academy Storm

Truth · Sunday 16 May 1948 · page 3

THIS IS the painting that caused a controversial storm at the Royal Academy's summer exhibition in London this month. A division among the hanging committee drew from the Academy's 70-years-old president, Sir Alfred Munnings,…

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Women storm stores for non-gas cookers

The Sun · Monday 17 May 1948 · page 1

Housewives stormed city stores today for non-gas food cookers, many factories closed, throwing 4000 workers idle, and hospital work was disorganised by lack of gas. Spirit stoves and cookers…

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Floods Cause Of Water Shortage!

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 May 1948 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Monday. -- Wairoa borough, devastated by floods on Friday, is now ironically facing a serious water shortage. WAIROA BOROUGH'S…

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Flood Sweeps Stock to Sea

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 May 1948 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Monday.-- Thousands of sheep, pigs and cattle have perished in the flood at Gisborne…

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