Pori Of Brisbane Closed By Cyclone

Northern Advocate, 24 January 1947, Page 3

Pori Of Brisbane Closed By Cyclone

(Rec. Noon) SYDNEY. This Dav. A cyclone moving south lias closed the port of Brisbane, stopped air traffic hoi won Brisbane and Sydney, and brought exceptionally heavy rain and gales on the far north coast of New Smith Wales. Nineteen towns in New South Wales have reported temperatures of over a century within the past 24 hours, the highest being 114 deg. at tvanhoe. At Munvillumhab, 400 points of rain fell in six hours.

Cyclone warnings have sent ships into shelter along hundreds of miles of coastline.

The auxiliary schooner Tagua. on route from the Solomons to New Zealand, has been reliably reported as sheltering in Hervcy Bay, after a long battle with heavy seas.

When it closed the port, of Brisbane, the centre of the cyclone missed the city and travelled south at 10 miles an hour.

Winds reached 50 miles an hour and 302 points of rain foil.

RESORTS SUFFER

Roads and fields were flooded and many campers were forced to abandon their tents and belongings. At the resort of Southport, 50 tents were destroyed. Other seaside towns suffered damage when buildings were unroofed and caravans blown over.

While inland and the southern part of New South Wales swelters in a heat wave, flood warnings have been issued to towns along the northern rivers.

A Sydney Weather Bureau official says that the usual track of cyclones is from Noumea across to the Queensland coast and then down the north coast of Now South Wales.

They rarely come farther south than Lismovc, but the present cyclone will cause unsettled weather and heavy seas at Sydney.