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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 61

Buyers Storm Car Sale; 2 Faint in Crush

The Sun · Tuesday 21 September 1948 · page 1

Two thousand buyers crowded the rooms of Auto Auctions, George Street, city, today, for the first postwar uncontrolled sale of used cars. Two people collapsed in the crush, and hundreds more waited…

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News for women Dust or flood, the show goes on

The Sun · Tuesday 21 September 1948 · page 11

SYDNEY contralto Peggy Dunbar and pianist Austin Goldberg, are hoping for no floods or…

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900 Casualties in Jap Floods

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 21 September 1948 · page 1

TOKIO, Tuesday.--Nine hundred persons are dead or missing as the result of floods which swept two cities in…

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Storm Trooper Migrants

Tribune · Wednesday 22 September 1948 · page 4

FORMER “ Storm Troopers” who were among displaced Europeans recruited to fight for Germany in the war have migrated…

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Sudden Storm Hits Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 3

A sudden electrical storm struck Sydney at 11.30 p.m. Theatre crowds waiting at tram and bus stops were caught in it…

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Electric Storm Strikes City

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 5

An electric storm struck Sydney at 11.25 p.m. yesterday. Heavy rain fell over most of the metropolitan area…

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Electrical Storm Sweeps City Area Hail Damage In Northern Suburbs Bureau Tips Fresh Falls

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 2

SEVERE damage, particularly in the Northern suburbs, was done by heavy hail which accompanied a storm which broke oyer Sydney shortly before…

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Electrical Storm Sweeps City Area Hail Damage In Northern Suburbs Bureau Tips Fresh Falls

Daily Mirror · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 2

SEVERE damage, particularly in the Northern suburbs, was done by heavy hail which accompanied a storm which broke over Sydney shortly before…

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Gale Sinks Ships

The Sun · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 5

BOMBAY, Friday.--An 85 mile-an-hour gale struck Bombay, sinking three small vessels in Bombay harbor…

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Towline Breaks In Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 September 1948 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Thursday.--The motorship Fern moor (4972 tons), which broke down 2000 miles west-north-west of Auckland, later broke away in a storm from the motorship Palana, which had taken her in tow…

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Launch Aground in Electrical Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 September 1948 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Friday.--The 50ft. launch Debare, owned by the Seventh Day Adventists, ran aground late last night at Hungry Head, 16 miles from Kempsey…

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N.z. Fight Storm Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 September 1948 · page 10

DUNEDIN (N.Z.), Saturday.--Troubles between the New Zealand Boxing Council and the Hutt Valley Association…

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N.z. Fight Storm Ends

Daily Mirror · Saturday 25 September 1948 · page 8

DUNEDIN (N-Z.), Saturday. --Troubles between the New Zealand Boxing Council: and the Hutt Valley Association…

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Floods Follow Big Downpour

Truth · Sunday 26 September 1948 · page 3

A terrific downpour near Mullumbimby, North Coast, yesterday inundated hundreds of acres of farm lands, damaged road bridges, and cut off the main road to traffic for several…

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13ins. of rain floods town

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 26 September 1948 · page 6

More than 13 inches of rain fell at Billinudgel, 19 miles from Murwillumbah, late on…

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Ketch Hit By Cyclone

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 September 1948 · page 8

A tropical cyclone battered the Sydney ketch Kathleen between Tahiti and Rarotonga (Cook…

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Freak Victorian Gales Now Ended

Daily Mirror · Monday 27 September 1948 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- weekend gales, which reached 70 m.p.h. and disrupted air and sea traffic along…

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Freak Storm Hits Tweed Area: £2,000 Damage To Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 September 1948 · page 1

MUR WILLUMBAH, Sunday.—A freak storm accompanied by a cloudburst hit the Tweed…

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Cyclone Co. Raises Div

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 14

Cyclone Co. of Australia, Ltd., and subsidiaries for the year ended June 30 earned £74,253 profit, including £9946 excess…

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Gale Cripples Four Yachts

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 October 1948 · page 1

A 50-mile-an-hour southerly gale last night battered yachts competing in the 350-mile Montagu Island race and forced four yachts to retire…

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