Maitland District Terrific Storm at Richmond-main
A terrific storm, accompanied by vivid lighting and large hailstones, swept over Richmond-Main shortly after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The storm lasted for…
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Floods & storms, 1929
473 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 24
Heavy Hail Storm's Barrage at Cessnock Windows Smashed
Jagged lumps of ice, some the size of hen eggs, fell over Cessnock during a phenomenal storm which passed over the town about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tasmanian Floods Shipping Casualty Launceston
The first shipping casualty as the direct result of the floods occurred to-day, when the cargo steamer Wareatea, 475 tons, en route to Launceston from Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tasmania s Devastating Floods — — Havoc Around Launceston
DEBRIS BEING SWEPT past the Tamar Rowing Club's shed at Launceston. Waters from the Cataract Gorge burst into the club and all the boats, to the value of £3000, were washed away. THIS IS THE ROOF of the South Esk Swimming Club, which used to be at the entrance to the famous cataract George. It is being swirled downstream to the Tamar River…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tasmanian Floods the King's Sympathy London
The King has sent the following telegram to Sir James O'Grady, Governor of Tasmania—"I have learned with deep regret of the loss of life and damage to…
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Sir,—As the discovery of the Southern Cross and its intrepid crew is now an accomplished fact, and the necessity, presumably, no longer exists for a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Potatoes Rot Effect of Floods Heavy Tasmanian Losses Burnie (Tas.)
Losses suffered by potato-growers as a result of the flood will be heavy, and it is predicted that 25 per cent. of the crop will not reach the market. The lands on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Flood Sweeps Dunedin— —Rushing Waters Push Train Over
A SUDDEN FLOOD on the Leith River earned many thousands of pounds worth of damage in and around Dunedin (N.Z.) A good train was overturned when the line washed away. A firemen was killed. THE ROOF HAD TO BE CUT AWAY on this engine cab to enable the body of the fireman, Charles R. Tuck, to be recovered. He was drowned when the engine…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm Over Boy Cessnock Sewerage Job
By the employment of a youth at Cessnock on Water Board work, Cessnock Unemployed Union contends that a vital principle had been broken. It…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barge Sunk in Gale New York
A barge carrying a £60,000 cargo of whale oil from the Antarctic whaler Sir James Clark Ross sank in Now York Harbor in a storm which…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Over Proposal to Repudiate British War Debts 'Plane to Lunch "Repudiation of War Debts" Ofhcial Alarm Is This Labor's Official Policy?" LONDON, Wednesday. Landed on the Thames Air Taxis London
"If Mr. Phillip Snowden, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labor Government, is to be believed, the Labor. Party is ready to throw over the principles on which Britain's financial relations with the Allies were established, to rip up Hundreds of Londoners caught a glimpse of the air taxi seaplane, which the Master of Semphill, the noted British aeronautical authority,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gloucester Flood Damage Grant
Mr. W. Bennett, M.P., has received a letter from the Under-Secretary, Department of Local Government, stating, in reply to his representations on behalf of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Potato Cargo Damaged by Floods—- —-Police Guards in Melbourne
RAIN-DAMAGED POTATOES.—Over 1000 tons of potatoes which arrived in Sydney yesterday were found to seriously damaged by water in the recent floods in that State. The picture on the right shows them being picked over. A QUIET HOUR among the swans at the Bolanie Garden Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Thirty Dead Floods and Tornadoes Havoc in U.S.A. New York
Floods and tornadoes combined in all their fury during the week-end to reek havoc in the Mid-west and southern States…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Fears Wickham—Drainage Scheme Mayor's Statement
If the work in connection with the district drainage scheme is stopped then the low-lying portions of Wickham, Smedmore, and Marywille will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Workmen Injured Shed Collapses Incident in Wind-storm Sydney
During the height of a violent windstorm, which swept Sydney during the afternoon, a large shed in course of erection in the railway yards, near Central…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm Lashed Newcastle's Sea Front Damage on Beach Shipping at a Standstill
Lashed by a 40 miles an hour southerly gale, huge seas battered Newcastle beaches and breakwater at the week-end. With last night's high tide, waves dashed over the promenades, tearing weatherboards from the front of one shop at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Royal Wedding in Oslo Great Gale Sweeps the Coast
ROYAL WEDDING.—This picture shows the scene, inside the Cathedral at Oslo, when Prince Olaf, of Norway, and Princess Martha of Sweden, were wed. GREAT ROLLERS made fine sights along the rocky parts of the coastline yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Must Be Completed Wickham Drainage Floods Feared
The possibility of work in connection with the district drainage scheme being stopped is causing much concern to people living in the low-lying…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Moir and Owen Flight Across Desert Heat and Sand Storms Bagdad
A special message to the Australian Press Association from Moir and Owen, who are flying to Australia, states— "We arrived here to-day after a…
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