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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
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At least 31 people have lost their lives as the result of a terrific storm which ravaged southern California on New Year's Eve…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fog, snow, and gales combined to delay the first passenger and Imperial Air Mail 'plane bound for Singapore at Corfu to-day. To start…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The death roll from the disastrous New Year's Eve storm will probably reach 70. Forty bodies have been recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Torrential rains, which have fallen on the North Coast of New South Wales have caused serious floodings in some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Friday.—A baby was born in an ambulance car which stalled in a flooded creek crossing at Upper Tallebudgera…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A storm of criticism is focussed around Sir Stafford Cripps. K. C., who told the conference of the University Labor Federation that the Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reports from Albury last night stated that as a result of torrential rains all the creeks in the district were high, and that the main road…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—During a terrific storm on Sunday night in the M'Gill district roofs were lifted, windows broken, haystacks razed, farm…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A message received late last night stated that the Murrumbidgee River is dangerously hig!.. There is avery sign of the Burrunjuck Dam…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The police at Orbost have issued a warning to all residents of the flooded area to vacante their homes, as a further rise in the Snowy River is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A message from Wugga this morning states that it is expected that the water will come down from the river to-night or…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →AN AERIAL VIEW TAKEN AT O RBOST—The stationmaster's residence, near the railway line, can be seen in the foreground. On the right the line is inunda ted by water…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reports from Albury, Sunday night stated that as a result of torrential rains all the creeks to the district were high, and that the maine road from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TOP—Debris washed against the trucks in the railway yards at the height of the flood at Orbost (Victoria) Beneath—All…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amazing stories are being told of the fortitude of the Orbost flood victims. On Sunday night, Mr. Toby Nixon, a 32-year-old settler, went to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amazing stories are being told of tho fortitude of the Orbost flood victims. On Sunday night, Mr. Toby Nixon, a 32-year-old settler, went to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THESE TWO AERIAL PICTURES give a graphic idea of the flood at Orbost (Victoria), where heavy damage was caused when the Snowy River overflowed its banks. Top—The bridge which crosses the Snowy River about a mile from Orbost was broken in half by the force of the flood. The Prince's Highway between Melbourne and Sydney, which is usually traversed by hundreds of cars weekly, has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two high officials of Canberra have had adventures in the past few days in notable contrast to the daily routine of governmental business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—As the result of a spring tide and strong winds, parts of the town of Mackay were inundated last night. Many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Like Muzzaffarpore, which suffered severely, in Monday's big earthquake, Mongbyr is a city of the dead. Monghyr is—or was before the 'quake—a picturesque city of about 40,000 people on the right bank of the…
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