10Ft Cut Burrinjuck Dam Wall To Be Reduced Avoiding Danger in Flood Sydney
On the advice of its consulting, engineers, the Government has decided to cut 10 to 15 feet off the top of the Burrinjuk dam, following the…
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Floods & storms, 1937
305 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 16
German Doctors May Flood Queensland If Banned in Other States. Brisbane
The president of the Queensland Medical Board, Dr. Glynn Connolly, stated to-day that Dr. M. Michael had been registered by the board on July 8…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Warm Weather Ends In Sharp Storm Mercury Rises to 86 DEGREES
The oppressive weather conditions, which commenced on Monday, came to a climax yesterday afternoon when a storm occurred at Grafton at 4 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FLOODS In South Australia Heavy Damage Reported. Adelaide
Extensive damage has been caused throughout the State by the worst floods for half a century. Reports to hand from many Centres…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →S.A. FLOODS Worst For 50 Years Homes Evacuated. Adelaide
When flood waters burst the banks of the Wakefield River, at Wakefield, today, and inundated a part of the township, many residents, warned by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale in Sydney Houses Unroofed. Fences Flattened. Sydney
A sixty-mile an hour gale was experienced in the metropolitan area to-day. Houses were unroofed, small craft menaced and fences flattened At…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Bullocks Killed Tree Falls During Storm Diver's Narrow Escape. Dorrigo
Thomas Maker a bullock driver, was conducting his team through the scrub at Lower Bcilsdown on Friday in the height of a storm, when a tree…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Homing Cattle Dared Flood
A strong homing instinct was displayed by 23 bullocks taken to Yarrwonga, Victoria, recently, by goods train from Urana (N.S.W.). Next…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →N.Z. Horses Flood Tide and Willie Win Melbourne
Piloted by the New Zealand jockey, W. Bartle, the Cup candidate, Flood Tide, pleased his supporters by galloping over six furlongs in 1.211, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Endeavour Adrift Yacht Breaks Away in Gale. Boston
Apprehension regarding the yacht, Endeavour,, which is now adrift in the Atlantic, after breaking adrift while being towed back to England, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Electric Storm Ten Balloons Destroyed. London
An electric storm at the Cardington airship works set fire to 10 balloons which were in the air in connection with an experimental anti-aircraft…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fierce Gale Whips Sydney Harbor 30 Sailing Boats Capsize Crews Rescued by Launches Sydney
Bowled over by 45 mile-an-hour gusts of wind, more than 30 sailing boats capsized in the harbor to-day. and 150 men in the crews…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rowing Floodboat Race To-day
A race over the three-quarter mile course at Grafton will be decided in floodboats this afternoon by the members of the combined Grafton and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dalmorton Thunderstorm. Dalmorton
A thunderstorm broke over the village on Thursday evening and continued with steady rain through the night, registering a total of 32 points…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →16 Killed South American Storms. New York
Storms left a trail of death and destruction in the south-eastern section of South America, where 16 were killed and 100 injured, and 300 houses…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Richmond Storm Fireball Strikes Tree. Lismore
A fireball, which struck a 40ft. tree 3ft. 6ins in diameter, on Mr. L. C. Morgan's property, at McKee's Hill, during the height of a severe electrical storm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Upper Copmanhurst Thunderstorms
The thunderstorms the district enjoyed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings have made the' season's prospects more assured…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrific Storm at Manilla
A terrific storm swept the eastern side of Manilla district on Monday, accompanied by hail and heavy rain. Three to four inches fell in places in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beneficial Storms on the Bellinger
The dry period experienced on the Bellinger River for upwards six weeks was broken at the week-end. when beneficial storm rains fell over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Towgon Grange Severe Storms Cow and Tree Struck by Lightning
Several rather severe thunderstorms passed over here lately. The first was on Friday evening, and was not ac- companied by much rain but one on…
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