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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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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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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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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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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