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Floods & storms, 1950

3,659 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 183

Ali Calls Senator "Imbecile" Storm Follows Hot Attack Upon Stars

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday.-- "What should I do every time some idiot shouts imbecilities? § can only laugh at it' said Ali Khan yesterday in Gstaad, Switzerland. Ali was referring to the…

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Ali Calls Senator "Imbecile" Storm Follows Hot Attack Upon Stars

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday.-- "What should I do every time some idiot shouts imbecilities? I can only laugh at it," said Ali Khan yesterday in Gstaad, Switzerland. Ali was referring to the…

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Ali Calls Senator "Imbecile" Storm Follows Hot Attack Upon Stars

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday.-- "What should I do every time some idiot shouts imbecilities? I can only Sough at it," said Ali Khan yesterday in Gstaad, Switzerland. Ali was referring to the…

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Ali Calls Senator "Imbecile" Storm Follows Hot Attack Upon Stars

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday.-- "What shouSd S do every time some idiot shouts imbecilities? I can only laugh at it," said Ali Khan yesterday in Gstaad, Switzerland. Ali was referring to the…

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Dramatic Flood Message

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thursday.-- A dramatic message was received at Brisbane Weather Bureau today from the…

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Dramatic Flood Message

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

BRISBANE, Thursday -- A dramatic message was received at Brisbane Weather Bureau today from the…

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Dramatic Flood Message

Daily Mirror · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 6

BRISBANE, Thursday.-- A dramatic message was received at Brisbane Weather Bureau today from the…

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Hew Zealand Bats Fail to Spin in Gale Wind

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 28

DUNEDIN (N.Z.), Friday.--Australian spin bowlers upset calculations tor the New Zealand batsmen when the unofficial "test match" was commenced in a gale force wind at Carisbrook Oval today. Shortly after lunch the home team had lost five for 160, Ring taking the first four wickets…

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New Zealand Bats Fail to Spin in Gale Wind

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 28

DUNEDIN (N.Z.), Friday.--Australian spin bowlers upset calculations for the New Zealand batsmen when the unofficial "test match" was commenced in a gale force wind at Carisbrook Oval today. Shortly after lunch the home team had lost four for 104. Victorian Doug Ring had taken all four wickets…

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New Zealand Bats Fall to Spin in Gale Wind

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 28

DUNEDIN (N.Z.), Friday.--Australian spin bowlers upset calculations for the New Zealand batsmen when the unofficial "test match" was commenced in a gale force wind at Carisbrook Oval today. Shortly after tea seven were out for 210, Ring taking five wickets and Iverson two…

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Heavy Summer Rain May Result In Wheat Acreage Decline Cereal Specialist's Analysis HEAVY summer rains are not necessarily the harbinger of high yielding cereal crops

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 21

This is stated by Mr. G. Nicholson, cereal specialist of the Department of Agriculture, in his monthly report on N.S.W. crop conditions…

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Little Erosion After 8th. Coast Flood

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 22

Despite the recent floods in the Bega district there was practically no erosion on district farms. This interesting point is made by…

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Q'ld Rivers in Flood

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 10

A QUEENSLAND meteorologist said this week that never before in history had so many of the State's rivers been in flood…

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"Air Lift" For Flood Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thursday.— An R.A.A.F. Lincoln bomber on a 1,500-mile "air lift" mission into western Queensland to-day flew over…

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Bomber drops food to flood victims

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 10

AN R.A.A.F. BOMBER yesterday parachuted food to people cut off by floods at Jundah, south-west Queensland. This picturegram shows a white sheet on the…

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Floods Maroon Trains in S.a

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Friday.--A stock train and a freight train are flood-bound at Marree, where the countryside is flooded after…

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Rescuers In Floods Use Rowing Boat

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 2

BRISBANE Friday.-- Women and children were evacuated in a dinghy from the…

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Warning of Flood Danger in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The tropical depression which caused widespread flooding in Central Australia and…

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Warning of Flood Danger in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The tropical depression which caused widespread flooding in Central Australia and…

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Warning of Flood Danger in Victoria

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The tropical depression which caused widespread flooding in Central Australia and…

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