Relief for Flood Sufferers
The Berry branch of the Primary Producers' Union carried a motion recommending the Central Council to make special grants to members of the…
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Floods & storms, 1929
473 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 24
Cyclone Feared North Queensland Heavy Rain on Coast Brisbane
A cyclone, centred approximately between Cairns and. Willis Inland, and moving westward, is canning heavy rain on the Far North Coast. Innisfail…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HAZARDOUS! Explorers' Position in Antarctic Ship Leaves Terrible Storm Hinders Byrd's Work Bay of Whales
The City of New York has left, for New, Zealand, and if the Eleanor Boiling should be turned back by the ice our little group on the barrier will be beyond reach, except by radio, until next December…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queensland Cyclone Passes Inland Heavy Rain in North Brisbane
Under the influence of the cyclone which passed inland early this morning the far north coast received torrential rain list night. The registrations ranged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DAREDEVIL Published by arrangements with Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London and Melbourne. CHAPTER I. Introduction to Storm
Probably Susan Hawthorne got a lot of her courage and independence from her father, old Smiler Hawthorne, who in his time had been nearly everything…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fires and Floods Lake Shire Drainage
At last night's meeting of Lake Macquarie Shire Council, Cr. G Pearce, President, reported that considerable damage had been caused in various parts of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In Cyclone Crippled Arafura Parted From Tug No Danger of Foundering SYDNEY
Another cyclone is upon the crippled Arafura. The steering gear of the Coringa, which had her in tow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Queensland Floods Railway Lines Covered Services Suspended Brisbane
Train services on the Far Northern line were again suspended to-day owing to flood waters being still over the lines. In places, the Herbert River was more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland Floods Man Drowned in River Cyclone Off the Coast Brisbane
The Herbert and Tully Rivers were many feet over the rails to-day, and trains were still held up. The weather, however, was improving between Townsville…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Flood Tweed and Richmond Rivers Rising
The Tweed and Richmond Rivers are in flood. AT 10.30 a.m. to-day the water was within three feet of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deputation Succeeds Maryville Flood Prevention Work Commenced
The deputation, consisting of aldermen from the Wickham Council and a number of Maryville ratepayers, that recently…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Byron Bay Storms Byron Bay
The weather here yesterday was very boisterous, with a strong southerly wind blowing. Rain has been falling throughout…
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A committee has been formed is Brisbane to consider ways and means of flood prevention, and not before time. But looking at the personnel and the place of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →RECEDING Lismore Flood Waters Danger Over Lismore
Flood waters lapped the steps of the Lismore Post Office last night, and the telephone girls had to be carried to their work…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Arafura Safe at Brisbane Fight with Cyclone Brisbane
After a most unenviable experience in a cyclone off the Queensland coast, in the vicinity of Sandy Cape, with a damaged propeller, the steamer Arafura struck a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Caused Woman's Death
A verdict that death was due to heart failure was returned by the Sydney Coroner yesterday, in the case of Elizabeth Jean Carruthers (40), who was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland Floods a Boy Drowned Brisbane
While endeavouring to cross the flooded Barren River on horseback yesterday, John Draper, 17, an immigrant, was swept from his horse by the strong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FLOOD—STRIKE Mining Town's Plight AUCKLAND
Business at Hikurangi is at a stand-sti[?]. One coalmine in flooded, and workers at a second mine are on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Forty Dead Flood and Landslide After Drought Great Losses in Madeira LONDON
Forty persons are dead as the result of a flood and landslide, following torrential rains in Madeira after a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Workers Wauchope Flooded Area
Men who, because of the floods, were paid off from road jobs at Wauchope recently, will be re-engaged if they apply to the officer-in-charge at…
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