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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1951

1,485 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 75

Storm Over Union Organiser

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 7

Mr. P. Carter, secretary of the Operative Painters and Decorators' Union, said last night, that 50…

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11 Die As Gale Sinks 2 Ships

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday. -- Two vessels sank in the English Channel yesterday as 100 m.p.h. gales lashed the Continent and the south of England…

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11 Die As Gale Sinks 2 Ships

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday. -- Two vessels sank in the English Channel yesterday as 100 m.p.h. gales lashed the Continent and the south of England…

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11 Die As Gale Sinks 2 Ships

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday. -- Two vessels sank in the English Channel yesterday as 100 m.p.h. gales lashed the Continent and the south of England…

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11 Die As Gale Sinks 2 Ships

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.-- Two vessels sank in the English Channel yesterday as 100 m.p.h. gales lashed the Continent and the south of England…

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11 Die As Gale Sinks 2 Ships

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday. -- Two vessels sank in the English Channel yesterday as 100 m.p.h. gales lashed the Continent and the south of England…

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11 Die As Gale Sinks 2 Ships

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday. -- Two vessels sank in the English Channel yesterday as 100 m.p.h. gales lashed the Continent and the south of England…

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11 Die As Gale Sinks 2 Ships

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday. -- Two vessels sank in the English Channel yesterday as 100 m.p.h. gales lashed the Continent and the south of England…

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11 Die As Gale Sinks 2 Ships

Daily Mirror · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday. -- Two vessels sank in the English Channel yesterday as 100 m.p.h. gales lashed the Continent and the south of England…

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Late News Phone: M240[?] Four Deaths, Heavy Damage in Gales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 28

LONDON, Wed.--Gales lashing France and the English Channel have left behind a trall of damage, caused at least four…

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Six Killed As Cyclone Sweeps Across France and Channel

The Sun · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--Six people have died in gales which have lashed France and the Channel for 24 hours. Four men were swept off a fishing boat at…

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Ravages du cyclone

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 5

A l'heure où nous écrivons ces lignes, les derniéres rafales du cyclone secouent les cocotiers pendant qu'une pluie abontante lessive Nouméa et la…

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Sun Storm's Four Colts

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 12

LIKELY young imported sire, Sun storm, the oldest progeny of which lire now yearling, is sire of four…

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Caucus Storm Over Bill "Fair Play!" Plea To Chifley

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labour Party, Mr. J. B. Chifley, closed a stormy Caucus meeting…

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Big Weed Growth After Flood Rains

The Land · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 20

Colossal weed growth is reported along river and creek banks which were flooded in the Inverell district recently,…

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Fruit Tree Still Show Flood Effects

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 23

MANY fruit trees on the Orange district—mostly apples—showed mild to severe effects of last year's…

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Calm before the storm

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 March 1951 · page 6

MR. MENZIES, in reflective mood, on the steps of Federal Government House,…

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Richard Todd takes London by storm

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 March 1951 · page 62

LONDON, Sat.--About a year ago when British talent scouts found Richard Todd, casting directors shoved him into the Anglo-American movie Hasty Heart. The braw Scotsman with the well-knit figure, the…

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Aircraft Beat Floods. Pests By Our Aviation Correspondent

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 18 March 1951 · page 27

SINCE the end of World War II, the world's oldest and youngest industries, agriculture and aviation, have teamed up in Australia. THE Show provides one example…

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Beat Flood-Won Ribbon

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 18 March 1951 · page 7

An Australian Illawarra Shorthorn bull which saved itself from drowning last june yesterday won a…

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