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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1938

111 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 6 of 6

Storm Over landlord Act

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 November 1938 · page 4

A storm of criticism greeted the introduction in Parliament on Tuesday night of a bill to extend the Landford and Tenant Act for another year…

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England Swept by Gale 13 Killed. Small Steamers in Distress. London. Nov. 23

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 26 November 1938 · page 8

Thirteen people have been killed and numerous others injured during terrific gale that swept England. It was one of the fiercest ever recorded,…

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Severe Electrical Storm

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 29 November 1938 · page 4

A severe electrical storm swept over the Macleay Valley from the south-west on Monday evening. Brilliant flashes of lightning preceded…

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Spilt Milk Gutters Flooded

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 29 November 1938 · page 2

About 500 gallons of milk flooded the gutters in Maitland Road, Tighe's Hill on Sunday, when a trailer, behind a motor vehicle bound from…

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Our Serial "Backs to the Wall" Chapter Ix. Lull in the Storm

The Northern Champion · Saturday 3 December 1938 · page 8

The winter, and now Bullecourt, were just behind us, memories fresh, vivid and terrible. The future was flame-racked gloom, not good to contemplate…

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Saturday's Gale

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 13 December 1938 · page 2

Saturday's fierce west-north-west gale, blowing at 50 miles an hour, wrecked property, fanned bushfires, and swept the Newcastle district…

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Sydney Gale

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 14 December 1938 · page 7

That gale on Saturday last, the most destructive for years, shook Sydney up and some of it down. The wind, blowing at 75 to 80 miles an hour…

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Fierce Gale Rakes City and Suburbs. Trail of Ruin of Land and Water. Bushfires Ring the City. Transport Services Dis[?] Delay on Bridge

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 14 December 1938 · page 2

One of the wildest and most destructive gales that has been experienced for many years swept over Sydney and suburbs on Saturday,…

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Week-end on Hastings Bush Fires and Gales

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 December 1938 · page 7

Bush fires and gales provided one of the most devastating week-ends ever experienced in the Hastings River district. A hot westerly gale, reaching 50 miles…

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Cyclone at Boggabilla

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 22 December 1938 · page 3

During a cyclone in the Boggabilla district recently a man—a Government Prickley Pear Inspector— was in a hut that was lifted in the air and…

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What to Do in a Storm

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 24 December 1938 · page 2

If out of doors, trees should be avoided, and [?]f, from the rapidity with which the explosion follows the flash, it should be evident that the electric…

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