Heavy Rain in Some Quarters
ALTHOUGH Broken Hill received only 16 points, there were some heavy falls in this district yesterday Falls ranging from two points at…
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Floods & storms, 1940
57 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 3 of 3
Local Voting Proceeds In Orderly Fashion Floods at Brooklands Delays Poll One Week
THERE Were no untoward local incidents connected with to-day's voting for the Federal elections and everything was carried out in an orderly fashion. In the Darling Division voting took place in all sections with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Storm Passing in Sydney More Rain In West SYDNEY
THE State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said today that though storm conditions were passing and seas along the coast were more moderate,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Culvert to Cope with Flood Waters
Work was started yesterday on the excavation of the culvert to be erected by the City Council in Gypsum Street between South Hill and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diggers Get Taste of Desert Storm Cairo, October 28
AUSTRALIAN troops in the past two days have learned what a western desert duststorm really means. lt was the most…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prospects Of Thunder Storms
SYDNEY, Wednesday—The State Meteorologist (Mr.Mares) says that there is every prospect of the weather over the State becoming unsettled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lightning Hits Sydney Bridge Storm Damage At Dubbo SYDNEY
During yesterday's storm the western pylon at the North Sydney end of the Harbor Bridge was struck by lightning, and a piece of granite…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bad Conditions in Desert Australians Get Taste of Storms; Two Trying Days Inquiries About Home
OVER the past two days the Australians have experienced desert conditions at their worst... A raging northeasterly wind, carrying tons of dust and sand in its wake, swept the dust everywhere —into eyes, ears, food and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires Menace Forest Storms Assist In Queensland BRISBANE
STORMS in parts of south-east Queensland last night assisted fire-fighters to control some of the bush fires which have been burning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →City's Unique Experience 2 Violent Storms Yesterday Stalls Demolished at Racecourse
ALTHOUGH the terrific dust storm which swept through Broken Hill yesterday afternoon was accompanied by wind which assumed gale force surprisingly little damage was done. A number of houses suffered, and sheds and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Severe Storm at Wilcannia
A severe dust storm struck Wilcannia and surrounding districts about 6.30 o'clock last night. So severe was the storm, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Coast Guns Attacked British Pilots Defy Gale to Make Raid London, November 18
DEFYING a gale over the Channel, R.A.F. planes today attacked German gun emplacements at Cape GrisNez on the French coast. Heavy cross-Channel gun fire, mostly from England, rocked the Kent coast from noon…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Dust Storms Outback
Heavy dust storms are raging over a front of many miles at points beyond a hundred miles north of Broken Hill, according to reports received…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Bagot Street Work Completed Job Cost About £2O0o Flood Water Control
THE main work in the Bagot Street area, which included the excavation of a channel to the Broken Hill Proprietary Company's dam, construction of a penstock pit in the dam, building a pipe drain from the dam, and reconstruction of the roadway in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrific Storm at Inverell Sydney
ABOUT 350 sheep were drowned in a terrific storm at Inverell. Many were stunned by hail before they were carried…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dramatic Race Against Storm; Pedal Set Used SYDNEY
ON Maria Island, east of Tasmania, a young man lay ill with acute, appendicitis recently while ceaseless calls to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Portable Floodlights for S. African Defence
South Africa has received, from England 240 floodlight projectors, each capable of throwing a continuous and powerful 5000 candle-power beam…
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