Big Storm in Sydney Traffic Disorganised. Sydney
A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by vivid lightning, swept over the metropolitan area this morning, with the result that traffic was disorganised for some…
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Floods & storms, 1928
362 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 19
Heavy Coastal Rain Eight Inches at Kiama. Sydney
The rain recorded in New South Wales during the week-end covered the central and south coastal areas, central and southern tablelands, the central-west and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CYCLONE Stormy N.S.W. Coast Ships Warned 70 M.P.H. Squalls at Nobbys
Newcastle, Sydney, and the coast of New South Wales are in the grip of a cyclone, with every…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wickham Flooded Throsby Creek Again
Low-lying parts of North Wickham and Smedmore were under water this morning. People had to wade through water to reach the road…
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Heavy rain last night and to-day drenched the suburbs, taxing watertables and culverts to their full capacity. In some places the water…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stranded Uralla Unaffected by Gale
The North Coast steamer Uralla, which is beached on Boyce's Beach bin the Stockton Bight. weathered last night's gale well according to reports…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victims of Previous Gales Uralla and White Bay
A resident of Anna Bay, when communicated with yesterday by telephone, stated that the storm had not caused any alteration in the position of the North…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale at Newcastle Heavy Rainstorms No Damage Reported
A great change in the weather conditions along the New Sooth Wales coast took place during Monday night. The rain-producing cyclone, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Steamer Yarra Safe Disabled in Cyclonic Storm Engineers' Good Work Burst Steam Pipe Put Vessel in Peril
SYDNEY, Wednesday. Swept before the gale while her engineers toiled in the heat of the engine room to make good defects in the machinery, the Huddart Parker steamer Yarra, which left Newcastle late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods Predicted Warning for Hunter District. Sydney
The following message has been sent to Maitland:—Heavy rain expected over the whole catchment area of the Hunter River daring the next 24 to 36 hours, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cyclone Passes Shipping Resumes
The weather wan fine at Newcastle yesterday, and reports from various parts of the coast of the State were to the effect that the passing of the cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hastings River in Flood. Sydney
Considerable damage has been done in the Hastings River district. Torrential rain, accompanied by a strong gale, fell continuously for many hours, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steamer in Storm Gazana Reaches Newcastle
The officers of the British-India steamer Gazana, which arrived at Newcastle on Wednesday night, after riding out the storm along the coast on Tuesday, told…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →S.s. Nauru Chief Battle in Cyclone
To be in the centre of the cyclonic disturbance which was operating off the New South Wales coast during the early part of the week was the unenviable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flooded Grounds Soccer Matches Deferred
Adumstown Park and Broadmeaddow grounds would have been more suitable for water polo than soccer. The Adamstown v Wallsend senior…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Inga in Storm
The steamer Inga, which arrived at Newcastle on Saturday from Tulagi, en countered the cyclone at the beginning of the week, and when off Cape Byron on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Japan
Tokio reports that rainstorms unprecedented for 20 years have occurred in the south-west of Japan, especially at Kyushu…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fight Sure Under Floodlights £300,000 Gate? New York
"Under floodlights in the vast Yankee Stadium on the night of July 20, Tunney will. fight Heeney 15 rounds, and you can go out and bet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm in a Milk Jug
When Wallsend oldermen made jocularly reference to the watery appearance of their milk at the last meeting of the council, they did not…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Costly Storm Electricity Supply Damage
The electrical engineer and manager of the city council's electric Supply Department (Mr. Allbut) reported at the council's meeting last…
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