Modern Business Up-to-date Architecture Use of Floodlights
In setting out to write on the subject of flood-lighting, one is appalled at the almost entire absence of any outstanding installations which can be quoted as…
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Floods & storms, 1930
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Huge Floods Mexican City Destroyed TAMPICO (Mexico), October 23
It is reported that the city of Alamo in the State of Vera Cruz, has been destroyed by floods in the river, Pantepec. There are many casualties, but the exact…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →King of Bulgars Marries Italy's Princess Carpet of Rose Petals Mussolini Is Caught in Storm London
THREE HUNDRED little girls, dressed in ankle length white frocks, strewed rose petals along the aisle of the famous church…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Summer's Fury Sudden Storm Days Again SYDNEY
Summer is here, and sudden southerlies and thunderstorms! That is what Mr. Mares predicts [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →3000 Homeless in Smyrna Floods 68 Bodies Recovered From Ruins Constantinople
Sixty-eight bodies have been recovered from the ruins of 700 houses which collapsed in floods at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Storm Swept India Floods Cause Ruin Calcutta
The capricious clerk of the weather is playing havoc in India. Hall and snow Slmla, a furious gale in Sind, where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Flood Gates
Following an inspection of Wallis creek floodgates by west Maitland alderman, the necessity for the taking of steps in order to ensure their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Madgeburg Buffeted Bay of Biscay Storm ADELAIDE
The officers and crew of the steamer Madgeburg had a terrifying experience in the Bay of Maday when a storm took toll of the French fishing fleet and many lives…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cup Weather Heavy Rain in Melbourne MELBOURNE
Further heavy rain fell in Melbourne to-night for three-quarters of an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Australian Storm Adelaide
Clouds of grit and dust swept over South Australia to-day at 40 miles an hour. The whole of the State was enveloped…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thermopylae Fails Robbed of Wool Derby Two Gales Sydney
Two gales in the Indian Ocean and at Gibraltar robbed the Norwegian Derby from Sydney to Dunkirk…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lost Rudder in Gale Japanese Ship's Plight San Francisco, November 2
The Japanese freighter, Seiyo Maru, wallowed helplessly in the North Pacific sea, south-west of the Aleutian Island on Sunday night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Violent Dust Storm Melbourne Suffers Damage Iron Roofs Lifted Melbourne
Throughout the day a pall of yellowish colour hung over Melbourne and environs, and this evening one of the worst dust-storms for many years swept the city,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →City Gasps in Hot Wind Blast 45 m.p.h. Gale Temperature Soars to Nineties
A 45-mile-an-bour wind heated to more than 90 degrees, grew, made Newcastle limp and gasp to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Melbourne Goes Red on Cup Day Bad Dust Storm Visitors a Wild Night Melbourne
Melbourne is spending the morning of the Cup holiday washing its face. Red rain fell for an hour last night after the sky had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →R 101 INQUIRY Rode Out Severe Gale Airship's Cost to Date London
At the R101 inquiry today, Air Marshal Sir John Higgins mentioned an occasion when the air-ship moored to the mast at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£40,000 DAMAGE Floods in Madras CALCUTTA, November 4
Extensive damage was caused by floods in the southern part of the Madras Presidency. Many villages have been completely submerged and thousands are now…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Talkie Realism The Storm at the Strand
The human situation in The Storm, which opens at the Strand Theatre to-morrow, alone would furnish drama and suspense enough for any picture. Added to this, however, are natural thrills of a surpassing nature. The company filming The Storm spent weeks in the High Sierras of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dash for Shelter Fishing Fleet Buffeted 50 M.P.H. GALE
A 50 miles an hour southerly gale which sprang up at 6 a.m. to-day, sent the Newcastle fishing fleet scurrying for the shelter of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rode Out Gale Preparation of R101 Lord Thomson Eager Air Marshal's Evidence (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, November 5
At the R101 court of inquiry to-day, Air Marshal Sir John Higgins mentioned an occasion when the airship at the most at Cardington rode out a gale when the…
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