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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

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25,000 Revellers Sing, Dance in Heavy Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 January 1951 · page 1

Twenty-five thousand people danced and sang in the rain at King's Cross at midnight last night. Heavy showers drenched the hilarious revellers, dye…

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Queensland Floods Holding Up Trains

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday. -- Floodwaters from Queensland are holding up freight trains on the Broken Hill-- Sydney…

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Cyclone's New Subsidiary

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 5

The new £¾ million subsidiary registered by Cyclone Co. of Australia Ltd. in December is to take over the parent company's scaffolding assets…

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500 Die in Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 4

PARIS, Friday. -- Five hundared people have been killed In a tropical cyclone which swept the 'Comores Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. Reports today said that…

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500 Die in Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 4

PARIS, Friday. -- Five hundered people have been killed in a tropical cyclone which swept the Comores Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. Reports today said that…

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500 Die in Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 4

PARIS, Friday. -- Five hundered people havbeen killed in a tropical cyclone which swept th iComores Archipelago, in the lndian Ocean. Reports today said that…

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500 Die in Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 4

PARIS, Friday. -- Five hundered people have been killed in a tropical cyclone which swept the Comoros Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. Reports today said that…

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500 Killed In Fierce Cyclone

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 3

PARIS, Friday.--Five hundred people have been killed in a tropical cyclone which swept the Comores Archipelago, a French possession in the Indian Ocean…

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Vast Seas of Floodwaters In Far West

The Land · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 22

FLOODWATERS lapping the railway lines at Broken Hill, and stretching as far as the eye can see, are whipped by the wind…

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England needing the help of heavy rain Larwood Sums Up

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 24

England will need the help of heavy weekend rain to have a chance of winning the Third Test. On a very easy pitch yesterday the English…

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Move to raise flooded ship

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday.--Rigging of pumps on the decks of the flooded freighter Palana, now lying holed off…

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Fires fellow floods

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

BREWARRINA, Saturday--After only two weeks respite from flood work, 50 townsmen yesterday were…

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Fine weekend with thunderstorms

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 2

Thunderstorms are likely in Sydney this evening and tomorrow afternoon, a Weather Bureau official said today…

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Storms likely this afternoon

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 32

Another warm and sultry day, with thunderstorms later, is forecast for Sydney today…

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Adventure in a Flood

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 6

I WOULD like to tell you of my experience in a recent flood. It all happened in the early…

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Storm Blackout

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 1

A violent electrical storm blacked but wide areas in the Lismore district yesterday and blew down tents at Evans…

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No Storm Damage to Pitch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 1

Late last night, experts thought that if no more heavy rain fell, the pitch Australia will resume…

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Storm Gives M.c.c. Hope; Pitch Doubt

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 1

English cricketers danced with joy in Castlereagh Street when a storm broke over the city last night. Washbrook, Hollies, Berry, and…

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Storm Brewing

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 21

SARA gazed ruefully at the dead leaves that littered the yard. Those big trees should have been cut down long ago, but she had not noticed the mess they…

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Storm Brewing

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 21

SARA gazed ruefully at the dead leaves that littered the yard. Those big trees should have been cut down long ago, but she had not noticed the mess they…

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