Floods in Tasmania
The death roll in the Tasmanian floods has now increased to 19 victims including the family of five named Willing who were having ten when a wall of water…
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Floods & storms, 1929
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Pictures of the Tasmanian Floods
(1) A section, of the suburb of Inve resk where residents were rescued by launches from their flooded homes. (2) The destroyed South Esk swimming sheds. (3) A woman being helped over a flooded part. (4) Scouts supplying lanterns when Invermay was plunged into darkness. (5) Tree trunks in Goodwin-street, Inveresk, were nearly covered by floodwaters…
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It is certain that potato shipments from Tasmania will be smaller this year by reason of the catastrophic floods. According to a Devonport…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tasmanian Floods Subscriptions for Relief Have Passed £60,000 MARK Melbourne
Subscriptions from all parts of Australia for sufferers by the recent disastrous floods in northern Tasmania amount to £68,830…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tasmanian Floods Two More Bodies Recovered 10 Bodies Still Missing Launceston
To-day the bodies of two more of the victims of the Derby disaster were discovered. The body of Mr. Hector M'Cormack, a married man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods and Storms in U.S.A. 32 Killed at Week End and Over 40 INJURED (special to "The Miner") New York, April 22
Thirty-two persons were killed by floods and tornadoes in the middle west, south-west, and southern States during the week end, and over 40 were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Tasmania the Pope's Sympathy Hobart
A telegram has been received from the Apostolic Delegate, Sydney, conveying the following message from Rome to the people of Tasmania:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gales Off N.S.W. Coast Coasters Return to Port Sydney
A gale swept the coast yesterday, and many coasters were forced to return to port owing to the boisterous seas. A number of other vessels put…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Euphrates in Flood Thousands of Acres of Crops Are Destroyed by Water Many Villages in Danger (Special to "The Miner.") Bagdad, May 9
Owing to the melting of the shows on the Anatolian. Mountains the Enphrates and Tigris rivers have risen to a height which has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sporting Randwick Races Postponed Till Thursday on Account of Heavy Rain Sydney
The Randwick races which were to have been held to-day have been postponed till Thursday owing to heavy rain…
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The Randwick races which were to have been held to-day have been postponed till Thursday owing to heavy rain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in New Zealand Heavy Stock Losses Reported Wellington (N.Z.), May 15
Floods due to torrential rains are reported in many districts of the North Island of New Zealand. It is reported that 75 people were held up at a creek…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain in Adelaide
Mr. J. H. Dodd, of the Shell Oil Company, who left last week for Quorn Land Adelaide, returned from the South Australian capital last night after a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in the Euphrates River Still Rising a Town Submerged (Special to "The Miner.") Basra, May 22
Both the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers are still rising. Mahmudiyah, 15 miles south of Bagdad, is submerged. Heavy loss of life is feared…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Tasmania Making Good the Damage Melbourne
Far from painting a gloomy picture of Tasmania, with its trail of flood devastation. Mr. J. C. M'Phee, the Premier, who to-day passed through…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tasmanian Floods State Has Not Resources to Stand Up to Damage Sydney
Mr. M'Phee, the Premier of Tasmania, in an address in Sydney yesterday, said that the floods which had desolated his State had inundated 60…
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Mr. M'Phee the Premier of Tasmania, in an address in Sydney yesterday, said that the floods which had desolated his State had inundated 60…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Barrier Miner Saturday, May 25, 1929. Proof of Noah's Flood
Recent cable messages report heavy floods in Mesopotamia the rivers Euphrates and Tigris having overflowed their banks and inundated large tracts of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rough Trip of a Launch on the Queensland Coast Fought Storm After Storm Mackay (Q.)
Battered and broken, with the hatch stove in and the decking wrenched sideways, the 28 tons launch Aspacia, with Alex Larcher and his 15-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Floods in Tasmania Roads Closed to Traffic Bridge Washed Away Burnie
Just as Tasmania is recovering from the disastrous floods of April, further serious damage to property and dislocation to road and rail transport have…
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