Hamilton Floods Relief for Residents Council's Action
"I have always advocated that there should be one controlling body, and that the Hunter District Water Board should be given more power in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1927
496 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 25
Blocked Gutters Flooding of Properties
"Nearly the whole of the municipality is in a terrible, state, owing to weeds and grass," sali Alderman Coote at the meeting of Adamstown…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →'Gloves Off?' Miners and Mechanics Hoare's Threat Coming Industrial Storm
"The clouds on the industrial horizon are dark, and herald the approach of a coming industrial storm," said the district president…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coloured Snow Storms
There are records of coloured snow storms dating as far back as the sixth century. According to Humboldt, a great traveller, a shower of red hail once…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Emotional Movie "Prisoners of the Storm"
"Prisoners of the Storm" has its locale in the north woods, as have most of the stories by this popular writer. It deals with the adventures…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Loss Slaughter of Seals Proves Useless Waste of Pelts Storm Prevents Recovery of 50,000 From Floes St. Johns
The daughter of 50,000 seals off the Newfoundland coast was rendered useless when a gale broke up the ice floes before the pelts could be recovered. A hundred thousand seals had been killed, and half of these…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Renown in Gale No Slackening of Speed Duchess Better at Sea
The Renown was buffeted about by heavy seas most of yesterday, causing more movement than is pleasant, but making no difference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods in Queensland BRISBANE
As a result of five inches or rain, which has fallen within the last few days, there are widespread floods in the White Bay district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Smedmore Flooding Government Help Wanted
As a means of preventing the flooding of the low parts of Smedmore and Maryville, the Minister for Works is to be asked to construct's wall from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japan's Turn Big Trouble Likely at Hankow Warship Despatched Calm Before Next Storm in Shanghai
Shanghai was quieter yesterday, but reports from Hankow' indicated that the position was becoming worse, and that American and Japanese citizens were in danger. A Japanese warship has been despatched to Hankow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →40 APPLICATIONS Cessnock Flood Relief Sub-committee Elected
Nearly 40 applications, including one for £490, have been received by Cessnock Flood Relief Committee. A sub-committee of four has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Biggest Flood Ever Coff's Harbor Inundated Coff's Harbor
The biggest flood ever known in Coff's Harbor occurred yesterday afternoon. The rainfall for 24 hours registered 660 points, but practically…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gales and Rain Floods Likely. Sydney
The State Weather Divisional Officer to-night issued the following special forecast: "Tropical disturbances between New Caledonia and the central coast of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wet Week-end? Heavy Rain Since Thursday Sport Affected
Another was week-end was indicated by the [?]rey cold weather and the threat[?] skies this morning. Newcastle getting used to them…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Cyclone BRISBANE
Heavy rain is falling in Southern Queensland as the result of a cyclonic storm which is moving down the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone in India London
A cyclone at Chittagong, in north-east Bengal, blew away bodily a school, market, and houses, and lifted a train off the line. It capsized, but strangely there were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast Rain Possibility of Floods. Sydney
Due to the increase in energy of a tropical disturbance centred off the Queensland coast, heavy rain fell on parts of the North Coast yesterday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Rain North of the Hunter Official Warning Sydney
The weather bureau advises of additional heavy falls of rain on the North-Coast, with indications of further heavy falls north from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclonic Disturbance Floods Feared on the Coast Sydney
Due to tropical disturbances further heavy rains have fallen on the North Coast, and the possibility of floods north of the Hunter River is increasing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damage by Floods
A telegram from Kansas City states that storms brought 2 to 5 inches of rain in the south-west, flooding hundreds of small streams in Missouri, Arkansas,…
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