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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1955

254 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 13

Cyclone in W. Australia

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 2

PERTH, Sat. -- A cyclone roaring m over the north coast has wrecked telegraph lines north of…

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Cyclone in W. Australia

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 2

PERTH, Sat -- A cyclone roaring in over the north coast has wrecked telegraph lines…

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Storm Danger to Dior

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. (A.P.). -- Tempest Storm (pictured above) is a striptease…

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Storm Danger to Dior

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. (A.P.). -- Tempest Storm (pictured above) is a striptease…

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Storm Danger to Dior

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. (A.P.). -- Tempest Storm (pictured above) is a striptease…

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Storm Danger to Dior

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. (A.P.). --- Tempest Storm (pictured above) is a striptease…

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Storm Danger to Dior

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. (A.P.). -- Tempest Storm (pictured above) is a striptease…

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Storm Danger to Dior

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. (A.P.). -- Tempest Storm tured) is a striptease…

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Storm Danger to Dior

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 3

HOLLYWOOD, Sat. (A.P.). -- Tempest Storm (pictured) is a striptease…

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Australiana Floods v eels

The World's News · Saturday 1 January 1955 · page 23

I DISAGREE with the statement by A. Thornton (WN, 30/10/54) that floods destroy eels and platypuses. Eels revel in floods which…

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Storms Lash Britain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1955 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday (D.M.W.C.).-- Snow covered 50,000 square miles of Britain last night…

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Storms Lash Britain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1955 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday D.M.W.C.).-- Snow covered . 50,000 square miles of Britain last night…

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Storms Lash Britain

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 January 1955 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday D.M.W.C.).-- Snow covered 50,000 square miles of Britain last night…

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Storm, Cool Change

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 January 1955 · page 2

A cool southerly change, bringing rain, should follow thunder storms tonight…

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Wind Storms Hit S.A. Barley

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 January 1955 · page 29

ADELAIDE.— Mr. K. J. Martin, manager of the Australian Barley Board, estimates the…

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Union Storm Over Judges' Wage Rise

Tribune · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 1

Commonwealth Arbitration Court judges, who refused to double margins on the ground that the economy could not stand it, are to get marginal increases of up to £30 a week to add to their present £80-£100 a…

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The Benby Club the Storm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 14 January 1955 · page 22

The day had been warm and sultry but towards evening the sky had clouded…

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Disgust on Pay Rise for Judges Storm grows in unions

Tribune · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 2

The storm against the huge salary increases granted by the Menzies Government to judges and top public servants continues unabated…

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Stopped Worst Hail Storm with Rockets

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1955 · page 4

BRISBANE.— Stanthorpe district orchardists claim to have stopped the worst hail storm of the season with rockets. They said that two…

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Heavy Rain Breaks Four Month Drought

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 28 January 1955 · page 1

Heavy rain at the week-end broke the four months' drought along most of the Coast and some inland districts. However, the Riverina and the Far West missed the rain entirely…

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