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Floods & storms, 1948

1,220 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 61

Royal Birth Delights World South Africans Dance In Street Flood of Cables Reaching Palace

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 November 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Congratulations on the Royal birth are flooding in to Buckingham Palace from all parts of the civilised world. The celebrations in South Africa reached a pitch of…

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Royal Birth Delights World South Africans Dance In Street Flood of Cables Reaching Palace

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 November 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Congratulations on the Royal birth are flooding in to Buckingham Palace from all parts of the civilised world. The celebrations in South Africa peached a pitch of…

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Royal Birth Delights World South Africans Dance In Street Flood of Cables Reaching Palace

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 November 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Congratulations on the Royal birth are flooding in to Buckingham Palace from all parts of the civilised world. The celebrations m South Africa reached a pitch of…

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Royal Birth Delights World South Africans Dance In Street Flood of Messages Received at Palace

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 16 November 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Congratulations on the Royal birth are flooding in to Buckingham Palace from all parts of the civilised world. The celebrations in Pitch Africa reached a pitch of…

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Gale Empties Harbor, Cuts Phones

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 1

The harbor at King Island (Bass Strait)emptied and filled every four minutes for two hours yesterday. This was one effect of a violent storm…

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Harbor Emptier During Storm

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Carrie Harbor, at King Island (Bass Strait), filled and emptied regularly at short intervals for nearly two hours during a freak tidal condition yes-…

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Melbourne Cat Off When Storm Blows Poles Down

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 November 1948 · page 1

All telephone, telegraph, teleprinter, and radio landline communication with Melbourne from Sydney,…

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Wedding Bells EVES—GALE

The Biz · Thursday 18 November 1948 · page 7

Escorted down the aisle of St. John's Church, Parramatta, at 5.30 p.m, on Saturday, November 6, Miss Elaine Gale was a charming picture in a lovely gown…

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Storm Damage to Electrical Equipment

The Biz · Thursday 18 November 1948 · page 3

The electrical engineer, Mr. Johnson, reported to last meeting of Fairfield Council that considerable trouble of a minor nature had been caused during…

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Conservation Body To Discuss North West Dust Storms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 13

SPECIAL attention would be given to existing conditions in the far north-west of New South Wales when the Western Division…

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Back o' Bourke, the farmer and the housewife are ready to give up 80 m.p.h. gales have covered 200,000 square miles of the north-west with sand; thousands of sheep are dying

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 November 1948 · page 8

ALMOST continuous dust and sand storms for the last five weeks have turned the…

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Cyclone Isolates Bombay

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 3

BOMBAY, Mon. (A.A.P.). -- Cyclonic winds and heavy rain have cut off Bombay and the area of…

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Freak Gale Hits Camp

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Tuesday.--Freak storms in the Richmond district wrecked the National Fitness camp at…

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Bombay Cyclone Takes Big Toll

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Nov. 22 (A.A.P.) —At least three persons were killed and 80 injured when a cyclone swept Bombay to-day…

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Hail Storm Hits Blacktown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 5

Hailstones "as big as hen eggs" fell in a 20-minute storm at Blacktown yesterday, according to a…

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Flood Brought Gift

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 10

ST. HELENS (Oregon).--Floods usually are anything but helpful. However, a recent high water of the…

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Flood Brought Gift

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 5

ST. HELENS (Oregon).--Floods usually are anything but helpful. However, a recent high water of the…

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Flood Brought Gift

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 10

ST. HELENS (Oregon).--Floods usually are anything but helpful. However, a recent high water of the…

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Flood Brought Gift

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 10

ST. HELENS (Oregon).--Floods usually are anything but helpful. However a recent high water of the…

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Flood Brought Gift

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 10

ST. HELENS (Oregon).--Floods Usually are anything but helpful. However a recent high water of the…

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