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Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 104

Flooding of Wicket Sensation In Grade Cricket

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 25

The condition of the wicket at Parramatta yesterday for the important grade cricket match between the leaders, Northern District and Cumberland, caused a sensation…

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Great Crop to Follow Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

Heavy weekend rain in most parts of the wheat belt had given the country prospects of another…

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Great Crop to Follow Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

Heavy weekend rain in most parts of the wheat belt had given the country prospects of another…

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Great Crop to Follow Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

Heavy weekend rain in most parts of the wheat bolt had given the country prospects of another…

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Great Crop to Follow Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

Heavy weekend rain in most parts of the wheat belt had given the country prospects of another…

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Great Crop to Follow Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

Heavy weekend rain in most parts of the wheat belt had given the country prospects of another…

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Great Crop to Follow Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 2

Heavy weekend rain in most parts of the wheat belt had given the country prospects of another…

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Great Crop to Follow Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

Heavy weekend rain in most parts of the wheat belt had given the country prospects of another…

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Great Crop to Follow Heavy Rain

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

Heavy weekend rain in most parts of the wheat belt had given the country prospects of another…

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Man-eaters Swim in Flooded Quarry

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sun. -- Fish which were placed in Morningside Quarry to kill mosquitoes are attacking divers training for the Australian diving championships…

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Urge Area Flooded Near Darwin

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 9

DARWIN, Monday. -- Thousands of square miles of buffalo country between Darwin and East Alligator…

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Storm Closes Aerodrome

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 5

Air officials closed Essendon aerodrome last night because of 60-miles-on-hour winds. Flights to Melbourne…

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Coaster Capsizes in Storm; 2 Get Ashore 2 other survivors reported on raft; plane sees bodies

The Sun · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 1

The coastal steamer Bombo, with a crew of 14, capsized and sank in heavy seas off Wollongong at 10 o'clock last night. Two survivors reached the shore near Wollongong…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is held of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which foundered five miles off Wollongong on Tuesday night…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is held of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which foundered five miles off Wollongong on Tuesday night…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is held of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is held of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which foundered five miles off Wollongong on Tuesday night…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is held of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which foundered five miles off Wollongong on Tuesday night…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is head of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which…

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Gale, Rain Force Aircraft to Abandon Bombo Search Glimpse Of Wreckage

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 February 1949 · page 1

LITTLE hope is held of finding alive any of the 10 missing members of the coastal steamer Bombo, which…

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