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Floods & storms, 1954

2,104 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 106

Storm Hit Kembla Punters Hold-up of race start

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 40

A sudden electric storm broke over Kembla today when half the programme had been run and so torrential was the rain that the big crowd of punters was caught unawares…

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Storm Hit Kembla Punters Hold-up of race start

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 40

A sudden electric storm broke over Kembla today when half the programme had been run and so torrential was the rain that the big crowd of punters was caught unawares…

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Storm Hit Kembla Punters Hold-up of race start

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 40

A sudden electric storm broke over Kembla today when half the programme had been run and so torrential was the rain that the big crowd of punters was caught unawares…

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Floods -- But the Show Must Go on

The Sun · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 4

Bachelor farmer Jack Dorey, 40, of Broadwater, near Lismore, will have a cane…

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Cable Round-up Britain Facing Flood Peril

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 6

LONDON, Mon. -- Flood peril came back to the East Coast of Britain fast night, just oyer a year since the 1953 disaster…

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Kembla Race In Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 15

After the first five races had been run on a dusty track, a downpour saturated the ground at Kembla yesterday…

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Churchill Charge Sets Off Storm in U.k

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 5

LONDON, Tues.--The fiercest political storm in years has broken around Sir Winston Churchill. Political friends and enemies have angrily charged him with injecting Party politics into Britain's debate on…

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Storms in afternoon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

The Weather Bureau expects isolated thunderstorms in Sydney this afternoon…

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Storms in afternoon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

The Weather Bureau expects isolated thunderstorms in Sydney this afternoon…

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Storms in afternoon

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

The Weather Bureau expects isolated thunderstorms in Sydney this afternoon…

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Storms in City Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

Sydney should have mainly fine and mild to warm weather tomorrow, says the Weather…

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Storms in City Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

Sydney should have mainly fine and mild to warm weather tomorrow, says the Weather…

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Storms in City Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

Sydney should have mainly fine and mild to warm weather tomorrow. says the Weather…

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Storms in City Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

Sydney should have mainly fine and mild to warm weather tomorrow, says the Weather…

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Storms in City Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

Sydney should have mainly fine and mild to warm weather tomorrow, says the Weather…

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Storms in City Likely

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

Sydney should have mainly fine and mild to warm weather tomorrow. says the Weathers…

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Rain In Wide Area: Deluge At Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 1

Rain fell in many parts of northern and central N.S.W. yesterday, breaking a spell of…

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Floods on road trial

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 7

Queensland floods had seriously damaged part of the Redex trial route, Mr. Norman…

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A team of agriculturists showed the engineers how to tame a savage river New Zealand can control floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 34

THE people of the northern river-lands have begun a march on Canberra…

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Landa Visits Flood Areas

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 5

“I feel sure that many more people would have donated to flood appeals, had they had the opportunity of seeing the devastation and misery which I saw during an official visit to this unfortunate area,” said the Minister for Labour and…

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