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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 61

Ships Break Loose, Craft Go Aground in Terrific Gale Wharf Hit By Steamer

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 October 1948 · page 1

IN a wild gale which swept Sydney Harbor this morning, the 5000 -ton steamer Hopepeak broke her moorings and crashed against a wharf, a freighter…

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Shipping Adrift in Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 4

A 63-miles-an-hour gale yesterday damaged shipping in Sydney Harbor and raised duststorms in…

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Adrift in Harbour Ships Hit By Wild Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 3

A westerly gale in Sydney early yesterday blew shipping and small craft wildly about the…

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Novel of the Week Australian's tale of Australia Storm of Time, by Eleanor Dark. London and Sydney: Collins

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 October 1948 · page 14

THIS novel was not necessary to establish Eleanor Dark as one of the foremost of…

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N.Z. plane lost in storm, 13 on board

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 October 1948 · page 32

WELLINGTON (H Z.), Sat.--A Lockheed Electro plane with 11 passengers and a crew of two is missing in central North Island…

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Forged fivers flood Melb

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 October 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Melbourne is being flooded with forged £5 notes for the Spring…

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Bush Fires, Dust Storms In North

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 4

A WIDE strip of northern N.S.W., and the hinterland of southern Queensland, is ringed by a chain of fiercely-burning bush fires. A SMOKE pall rising to 6000…

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Bush Fires, Dust Storms In North

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 4

A WIPE strip of northern N.S.W., and the hinterland of southern Queensland, is ringed by a chain of fiercely-burning bush fires. A SMOKE pall rising to 6000…

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Bush Fires, Dust Storms In North

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 4

A WIDE strip of northern N.S.W., and the hinterland of southern Queensland, is ringed by a chain of fiercely-burning bush fires. A SMOKE pall rising to 6000…

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Bush Fires, Dust Storms In North

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 4

A WIDE strip of northern N.S.W., and the hinterland of southern Queensland, is ringed by a chain of fiercely-burning bush fires. A SMOKE pall rising to 6000…

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Bush Fires, Dust Storms In North

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 4

A WIDE strip of northern N.S.W., and the hinterland of southern Queensland, is ringed by a chain of fiercely-burning bush fires. A SMOKE pall rising to 6000…

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Wally and the Major Storm in a Teacup

The Sun · Monday 25 October 1948 · page 9

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Varsity Storm Over Honi Soit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 October 1948 · page 2

A motion calling for the resignation of the editors of the Sydney University newspaper Honi Soit was carried by students at a boisterous meeting in Union Hall today…

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Heavy Rain Needed To Aid New S.C.G. Pitch

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 15

Heavy rain is needed to quicken the growth of grass on the new wicket which has been laid on the Sydney Cricket Ground. The chairman (Mr. R…

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300 Storm Council Pool

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 1

Three hundred men, women, and children last night climbed over 14ft. walls? to swim in the unlit and unattended Enfield Olympic pool. Hundreds of people…

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Communist housewives try to storm Parlt

The Sun · Wednesday 27 October 1948 · page 2

Thirty women members o f the Communists' New Housewives' Association held a demonstration in the vestibule of State Parliament House at noon today, shouting to see their members. One woman, Mrs. Mary…

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Sydney Lashed Dy Gale, Rain--havoc in Sudurds

The Sun · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

Touching 78 mph a terrific wind storm, accompanied by torrential rain, battered Sydney and suburbs shortly before 2 pm today. Sweeping in from the west, without warning, the wind unroofed houses,…

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City Roofs Lifted, Plane Wrecked in Wild Gale 78m.p.h. Wind In Sydney

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

WIDESPREAD damage, estimated at thousands of pounds, was done by a terrific wind and rain storm which struck Sydney shortly before 2 o'clock…

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City Roofs Lifted, Plane Wrecked in Wild Gale Wind Hits At 78 m.p.h

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

A HURRICANE blast of wind, reaching 78 m.p.h., which struck Sydney shortly before 2 p.m. this afternoon, broke an aeroplane in half at Mascot,…

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City Roofs Lifted, Plane Wrecked in Wild Gale Wind Hits At 78 m.p.h

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 October 1948 · page 1

A HURRICANE blast of wind, reaching 78 m.p.h., which struck Sydney shortly before 2 p.m. this afternoon, broke an aeroplane in half at Mascot,…

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