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Floods & storms, 1954

2,104 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 106

Scores Killed in Three Days European Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 17

LONDON, Fri. (A.P., B.U.P., Extel). -- Gales and blizzards which lashed Europe for three days have killed scores of people, crippled seaports and paralysed road, rail and air…

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Scores Killed in Three Days European Gale

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 17

LONDON, Fri. (A.P., B.U.P., Extel). -- Gales and blizzards which lashed Europe for three days have killed scores of people, crippled seaports and paralysed road, rail and air…

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Downpour Catches Crowd Storm in city

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

Heavy rain which fell between 8 and 9 o'clock last night drenched scores of thousands of people visiting the city to see…

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Storm Over Japanese Cabinet To Meet On Sea Survey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday. — The Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, said to-day that Federal Cabinet at its meeting in Sydney next Tuesday would consider the…

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Fountain Floodlit for Tour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 3

The Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park was floodlit last night during the trial illumination of the city…

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Explorers To Seek Tragic Flood Source

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Thursday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—A party of Auckland speleologists —cave explorers—will try…

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Flood Victim's First Steps

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

Last year from flood-stricken Convey Is. (England), came a story of horror as men and women, carrying bundles, waded to safety across the narrow bridge. Somewhere in the area,…

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Flood Victim's First Steps

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

Last year from flood-stricken Convey Is. (England), came a story of horror as men and women, carrying bundles, waded to safety across the narrow bridge. Somewhere in the area,…

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Flood Victim's First Steps

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

Last year from flood-stricken Convey Is. (England), came a story of horror as men and women, carrying bundles. Waded to safety across the narrow bridge. Somewhere in the area,…

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Flood Victim's First Steps

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

Last year from flood-stricken Convey Is. (England), came a story of horror as men and women, carrying bundles, waded to safety across the narrow bridge. Somewhere in the area,…

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Flood Victim's First Steps

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

Last year from flod-stricken Convey Is. (England), came a story of horror as men and women, carrying bundles, waded to safety across the narrow bridge. Somewhere in the area, 10-weeks…

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Flood Victims First Steps

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

Last year from flood-stricken Convey Is. (England), came a story of horror as men and women, carrying bundles, waded to safety across the harrow bridge. Somewhere in the area, 10-weeks…

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Flood Victim's First Steps

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

Last year from flood-stricken Canvey Is. (England), came a story of horror as men and women, carrying bundles, waded to safety across the narrow bridge. Somewhere in the area, 10-weeks…

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Flood Victim's First Steps

Daily Mirror · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 16

Last year from flood-stricken Convey Is. (England), came a story of horror as men and women, carrying bundles, waded to safety across the narrow bridge. Somewhere in the area, 10-weeks…

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Cyclone In Tasman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 1

Sydney Weather Bureau said last night a close watch was being kept on the movements…

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Gothic Now Heading Toward Cyclone

The Sun · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- The Royal yacht Gothic, now carrying the Queen to Australia, is heading into an intense cyclone. The cyclone has…

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Flood And Heroism the Little Ark, by Jan de Hartog.—Hamilton, London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1954 · page 9

IT is exactly 12 months ago to-morrow that floods devastated huge areas of the east coast of England and swept…

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Honeymooners Tell Of Peril Grounding in Storm

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 31 January 1954 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday.—A honeymoon couple and another man to-day told the full story of their ordeal after their ketch had…

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Cyclone Moving Towards Gothic in Tasman Captain May Alter Liner's Route

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 31 January 1954 · page 2

A cyclone is moving towards the Royal yacht Gothic which is bringing the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Australia…

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Storm Breaks Over Survey Plan the Week in Politics

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 31 January 1954 · page 53

THE most incredible news to emerge from Canberra for a long time is that the Government has been considering a United States plan to use Japanese technicians in a defence survey of Australia's Pacific islands…

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