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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1926

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Storms Defied Cobham Pushes Onwards Chose Worst Time What He Wants to Prove RANGOON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1926 · page 10

Despire that the worst storms in his experience raged while he was in the air. Captain Cobham arrived at Rangoon this evening…

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Terrible Ordeal Frail Craft Caught in Terrific Storm Men Cast Ashore Walk of Thirty Miles Over Rough Country for Help ROCKHAMPTON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1926 · page 10

Tossed about by waves and expecting every minute that their frail craft would go to pieces, and finally cast ashore after a most trying ordeal of nearly 48 hours, was the experience of Messrs. H. Dickenson and G. Howard…

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The Storms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 7

Some extraordinary storms have occurred. They would not be storms abroad, as extraordinary storms abroad are repeatedly occurring. The extraordinary storms…

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Storm Devastation New Orleans

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 2

The damage done by storms in the island or Porto Rico is estimated at £2,000,000. Twenty people were drowned…

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Wild Gales Passenger Boat's Peril Miami (U.s.a.)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 1

Hurricanes continue along the Florida coast. The centre of damage is evidently at Nassan. The losses there and…

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Flight in Rain Cobham Braves Storm RANGOON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 1

Captain Cobham left for Victoria Point this, morning in overcast weather, which later became stormy, with heavy rain…

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Wild Storms Many Lives Lost in West Indies Thousands Homeless Ships Sunk and Towns and Villages Wiped Out

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 1

Many lives have been lost as a result of wild storms in widely separated parts of the world. Thousands are homeless in the West Indies. The number of dead is not known, but the sinking of two steamers cost 100 lives,…

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Japanese Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 July 1926 · page 7

A Tokio message states that an official report of the floods in the Niigata Prefecture records that as the result of continuous rain since Tuesday, the Shinano…

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Snow and Gales in Italy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1926 · page 5

A message from Rome states that Europe's unprecedented summer has produced the amazing spectacle of a heavy snowfall at Bergamo. Terrific gales churned…

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State-wide Storm Conditions in South-West FORBES

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 31 July 1926 · page 4

The Lachlan River has fallen nearly three feet at Forbes since Thursday. It is now high at Condobolin, the reading yesterday being 26ft 7in,…

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Pen-notes and Pencillings. There Are Floods—and Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1926 · page 5

Every now and again we hear of some —of floods, and then of the greatest ever. There was that tremendous Rhine flood, and the meant other floods, such being…

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The Japanese Floods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 August 1926 · page 5

It is reported from Tokio that damage by the floods to the town of Tochiomachi, which has been the chief sufferer, is offichilly estimated at ten million yen. The…

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Storm-tossed Tugs St. Mabyn Reaches Newcastle J. & A. Brown's Fleet

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 August 1926 · page 5

Separated from her fellows in a heavy gale cast of Cape Leeation the St. Mabyn, one of the three ex-Admirally tugs bought in…

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Floods in Japan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 August 1926 · page 7

It is reported from Tokio that the heaviest rains for thirty years have resulted in disastrous floods in Northern Japan…

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Flood in Assam

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 August 1926 · page 5

Alarm was caused at the tea gardens, at Dooars, in Assam, by the breach of the Bengal-Dooars railway by the River Teesta, which…

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Sunk in Gale Five Seamen Drowned HALIFAX

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 10 August 1926 · page 1

Five of the crow were drowned and the remaining 12 rescued when the [?] steamer Ringhorn went ashore and was wrecked off the Nova…

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Storm of Criticism (Continued from page 1.) "Collins Was Nice" School Captain Explains LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 August 1926 · page 5

"We do not mind how many play, but the arrangement made should be stuck to. Sir Sidney Lacey's nore said that no arrangement had been…

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Storm of Criticism Collins Objects to Fifteen Fieldsmen Match Against Schools Captain Accused of Throwing His Wicket Away

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 August 1926 · page 1

A storm of criticism has been raised in England by Collins's action in expressing a wish that only 11 schoolboys, should field instead of 15 in the match between the Australian XI. and the Public Schools' XV…

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Flood Prevention

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 August 1926 · page 6

Mr. V. Bennett, M.P., ha, been informed that Mr. C. Tye, Under-Secretary for Public Works, will visit West Maitland an Wednesday, where, accompanied by…

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Flood Mitigation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 8

During the course of an interview with Mr. Flannery, the Minister for Works, on the subject of flood mitigation for the Hunter, Maitland, and Morepeth districts,…

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