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Floods & storms, 1951

1,485 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 75

Flood Damage to Tobacco Crops

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Floods have caused about £250,000 worth of damage to tobacco crops along the Queensland…

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Flood Damage to Tobacco Crops

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 7

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Floods have caused about £250,000 worth of damage to tobacco crops along the…

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Flood Damage to Tobacco Crops

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.--Floods have caused about £250,000 worth of damage to tobacco crops along the…

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Flood Damage Tobacco Crops

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Floods have caused about £250,000 worth of damage to tobacco crops along the…

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Flood Damage to Tobacco Crops

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 7

BRISBANE, Friday. -- Floods have caused about £250,000 worth of damage to tobacco crops along the…

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Floods delay tax case

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 5

The Taxation Board of Review yesterday indefinitely adjourned a hearing because a Riverstone dairy…

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Heavy rain on Blue Mountains

The Sun · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 5

Heavy rain, following yesterday's severe storm, continued to fall on the Blue Mountains today,…

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Serious Flooding After Vic. Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Serious flooding in Gippsland and central Victoria has followed the torrential rain during the weekend in Victoria's worst storm for 27 years…

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Serious Flooding After Vic. Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Serious flooding in Gippsland and central Victoria has followed the torrential rain during the weekend in Victoria's worst storm for 27 years…

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Violent storms still lash Vic

The Sun · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Victoria is still being lashed by violent storms. Gales and huge seas are delaying shipping, and…

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Storm Hits Coast, Mountains

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

A heavy electrical storm, with torrential rain and hail, struck the Blue Mountains and coastal…

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City May Miss Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 2

Although storms now sweeping South Australia and Victoria may reach Sydney,…

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Big Storm Stops Cars

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 4

KATOOMBA, Monday. --Many motorists would not risk driving in blinding rain which swept the…

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City May Miss Storm

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 2

Although storms now sweeping South Australia and Victoria may reach Sydney…

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Big Storm Stops Cars

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Monday. --Many motorists would not risk driving in blinding rain which swept the…

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Liner Grounds During Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 1

Waves pound against the bows of the old interstate liner Nairana after the ship grounded in Port Melbourne yesterday. The Nairana dragged her anchor during a heavy storm, and was driven into the shore. (See story below.)…

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Big Storm Stops Cars

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Monday. --Many motorists would not risk driving in blinding rain which swept the…

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Big Storm Stops Cars

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 4

KATOOMBA, Monday. --Many motorists would not risk driving in blinding rain which swept the…

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Stricken Ship May Founder in Gale

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Monday. -- A dramatic wireless message from the master of the stricken Panamanian freighter San Leonardo (10,000 tons) says that the gale is now blowing from the south-east, causing the vessel to drift north-west…

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Stricken Ship May Founder in Gale

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Monday. -- A dramatic wireless message from the master of the stricken Panamanian freighter San Leonardo (10,000 tons) says that the gale is now blowing from the south-east, causing the vessel to drift north-west…

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