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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms
202 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 6 of 11
London, March 25.—A promise to consider a national appeal for thousands of flood victims whose homes and furniture were ruined and for farmers whose land may be useless for growing crops for two years, was made in the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RISBANE.— Gales and heavy rain have grounded all planes which have been operating in the search from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELAIDE.—Widespread and scattered heavy rains.with several falls over 3in. have broken the season in the South Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IN the storm which passed north-east of Broken Hill yesterday afternoon, K. Tank recorded 243 points of rain and Topar 154. The rain was only light in Broken Hill and other parts, seven points being registered in the city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, March 20.—Reuters Frankfurt Correspondent reports that more than 100.000 lb. of soap, 6.000 lb of disinfenctant, 2,000 scrubbing brushes and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Berlin, March 27—Two hundred persons are reported drowned in the worst foods for 150 years in the Oder area. Over 20,000 Germans are fleeing from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane, March 28.—Very heavy rains were reported again this morning along tropical coast districts from Cairns to Mackay and back inland. A rain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, March 30.—Immediate financial advances would be made by the Government to voluntary marriage guidance organisations to try to stem the flood of divorces, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Jowitt) said in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney, March 31.—When his horse and waggonette overturned while he was attempting to cross the flooded Crooked Creek at Rowas, a few miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, March 31.—A mansion house had worried week-end dealing with the rush of donations to the Lord Mayor's Flood Relief Fund which in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE.—Torrential rains in South and North Queensland have interrupted train services and floods have caused…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London, April 3.—Revealing that the recent floods at the peak engulfed 600,000 acres of agricultural land, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New York, April 6.—Heavy rains have caused widespread floods in the middle-west and on the eastern seaboard today and five hundred persons had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, April 7.—In the Mid-West, tornadoes, floods and snow made the Easter week end one of the worst in American history, but New York had its hottest April 6 since 1910. In a 75 degrees…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, April 9.—Britain's weather has not "lost its wind" even yet. Gales swept all over the country on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Energetic fiction is being taken to alleviate the serious threat to Britain's cod production caused by the succession of blizzards, fronts and flood,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood's Creek has for once lived up to its name and will hold up the mail to Pine View Station. Mr. Jack Gill, of Pine View,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London, April 13.—In a race against time, work continued throughout the week-end at Hull deck assembling a big pontoon crane to seal a flood breach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—Widespread damage was caused by a terrific electrical storm which struck the Liverpool district this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY.—A fierce southerly gale, which at times reached 10 miles an hour, lashed Sydney for several hours early…
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