Heavy Rain on Queensland Coast. Brisbane
Further heavy rain has fallen on the Queensland tropical coast, reaching up to 550 points for the 24 hours ended 9 o'clock to-day…
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Floods & storms, 1939
216 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 11
Fifteen Drowned Floods in Africa. Durban
Fifteen have been drowned and thousands rendered homeless by heavy floods in Natal and Transvaal. Roads and bridges have been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Drowned Surveyors Marooned Floods In Queensland Cyclone Off Willis Island Brisbane
A boy drowned at South Johnstone, a survey party of six marooned in the Tully area, trains held up at Cairns, and people stranded in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Flood Would Threaten Burrinjuck Dam People Prepare for Emergency
The president of the Kyeamba Shire Council (Wagga), Mr. J. M. O'Brien told a special meeting of ratepayers that he had been officially informed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →40 Drowned South African Floods. Johannesburg
Floods have isolated Barberton drowned 40 persons, and threaten a food shortage for whites and a famine for natives on the Kreger reserve…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Island Devastated Cyclone Sweeps Angoche. Lourenco Marques, (Mozambique)
A cyclone devastated the island of Angoche. Every house and two lighthouses were razed. Two Europeans, a missionary and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Q'sland Floods Fatality Feared Rain Extends Inland. Brisbane
William Joseph Clark (19) is believed to have been drowned in the flooded Mulgrave River to-day. He was crossing the river on a horse, between…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Party Missing May Be Trapped by Floods. Adelaide
Fears are held for the safety of Ph Gibson, his wife and child, and two men, who left Maree by car a week ago from Birdsville…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods Replace Drought Enemy Base Anglo-french Ships On Yangtse River Jap Official Statement Nanking
"We hesitate to brand English and French vessels on the Yangtse as enemy, but naturally there must be a limit to Japan's gentlemanly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soaking Rains Over Wide N.S.W. AREA Floodings In Some Places Railway Service Suspended Sydney
A great area of the State, including the north-west, far west and Riverina, which had been suffering from the effect of a prolonged dry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FLOODS In South Australia Railway Lines Damaged. Adelaide
Torrential ram in the far north and central areas of South Australia has caused flood. Rivers which for a long period had been merely a succession of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Torrential Falls Flood Warnings in Victoria. Melbourne
Flood warnings were issued to townships along river valleys of Victoria in the east, north-east and southern districts as heavy rain is expected during…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Falls Rain in Riverina Parched Areas Soaked Junee Rail Hold Up Sydney
The wet weather which displaced heat in many parts of New South Wales at the week-end, continued last night and to-day, causing floods in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Injured Motor Accidents. Cars Collide During Heavy Rain. Lismore
Four persons two of them Queenslanders, were injured in motor accidents which occurred during the heavy rain at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CYCLONE Off The North Coast. More Rain Forecast. Sydney
A severe cyclonic disturbance was centred off Brisbane this morning and by 9 a.m. its centre was located on the North Coast to the north-east of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →131 Fishermen Saved From the Sea. Thrilling Rescue Ship Waterlogged in Gales. St. John's (Newfoundland)
Captain John Badcock and his plucky crew of 131 fishermen won a stubborn struggle to save both the 550-ton sealing ship, Ranger, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drought Broken on Clarence Rain Worth Many thousands. Eight Inches in Dorrigo Downpours Nymboida River Expected To Flood To-day
The drought in the Clarence River district has been broken, and the heavy falls during the week-end will be worth many thousands of pounds to the district. Falls ranged from 820 points at Dorrigo to 213 at Dalmorton, up to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →10½ Inches at Murwillumbah Tweed River in Flood. Murwillumbah
Particularly beneficial and exceptionally heavy rain over the week-end, prefaced by solid showers every day during the week, have flooded all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Food Train Reaches Alice Springs. After Floods in Interior. Adelaide
After six weeks of, isolation through floods, trains carrying passengers and food are now reaching Alice Springs. There was great rejoicing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DISORGANISED Airline Services Heavy Rain Yesterday. Sydney
Heavy rain in Sydney interfered with aviation schedules to-day. Keeping to the inland route and flying most of the way at 12,000 feet, the Dutch…
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