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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

2,067 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 104

Heavy Rain Cuts Quality Of Peas

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 3

PEAS available at the City Markets today were of inferior quality as a result of recent heavy rains…

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Heavy Rain Cuts Quality Of Peas

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 2

PEAS available at the City Markets today were of inferior quality as a result of recent heavy rains…

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Heavy Rain Cuts Quality Of Peas

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 2

PEAS available at the City Markets today were of inferior quality as a result of recent heavy rains…

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Heavy Rain Cuts Quality Of Peas

Daily Mirror · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 3

PEAS available at the City Markets today were of inferior quality as a result of recent heavy rains…

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The Gathering Storm in the East We must move quickly to counter the Red advance in East Asia

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 8

British Ministers and officials are on their way to Australia and other Dominions to prepare the groundwork tor Commonwealth talks to be held in Ottawa or London in…

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Food By Air To Isolated Flood Centres

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 4

BRISBANE, Sunday.—Food may be taken by air on Tuesday to more than 2,000 people isolated by flood waters in…

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Flood Areas Get Toys by Air

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 7

Aircraft have dropped magazines and toys with food parcels for marooned families in the flooded north-western corner of New South…

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Radar Photos To Forecast Storms

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday.--Two scientists working at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester, recently photographed a cloud neither of them could see,…

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Radar Photos To Forecast Storms

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday.--Two scientists working at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester, recently photographed a cloud neither of them could see,…

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Radar Photos To Forecast Storms

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday.--Two scientists working at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester, recently photographed a cloud neither of them could see,…

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Radar Photos To Forecast Storms

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 March 1949 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday.--Two scientists working at Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, Manchester, recently photographed a cloud neither of them could see,…

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Storms Delay Trains

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

A cloudburst caused a railway hold-up between Curlewis and Breeza last night…

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Storms Delay Teams

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

A cloudburst caused a railway hold-up between Curlewis and Breeza last night…

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Storms Delay Trains

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 2

A cloudburst caused a railway hold-up between Curlewis and Breeza last night…

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Storms Delay Trains

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

A cloudburst caused a railway hold-up between Curlewis and Breeza last night…

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Storms Belay Trains

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

A cloudburst caused a railway hold-up between Curlewis and Breeza last night…

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Wollongong's Industrial Exhibition Heavy Rain Washes Out Dairy Cattle Classes

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 4

BAD weather and driving rain affected this year's Wollongong Exhibition, held under the auspices of the Wollongong A.H. and I. Society, on March 10, 11 add 12, but it made no difference to the impressive industrial exhibits, which attracted considerable attention…

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Heavy Rain Failed To Spoil Success of Tumut's Splendid Show

The Land · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 14

DESPITE heavy rain good support was given Tumut's 74th annual show last week-end. The official opening was performed by the State Governor (Lt. General Northcott). Due principally to the weather,…

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Severe Storm At Mudgee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 1

An electrical storm which struck Mudgee at about 3 p.m. yesterday blacked out the town for about 5½ hours…

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Lords' Storm on Proxy Fathers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 March 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--The Government, in the House of Lords last night, rejected a demand for a Royal Commission to investigate the growing practice of…

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