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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
579 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 29
With fine weather now ruling over practically the whole of the State, the flood position along the central and southern rivers has materially improved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With the improvement in weather conditions the flood danger in north-eastern Victoria lessened to-day, bet a considerable amount of water has yet to come…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Ald. D. Gordon requested that the delegates to the conference at Newcastle to-night on flood mitigation should bring before the conference the suggestion that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A conference of local-governing bodies in the Newcastle-Cessnock-Maitland area has been called for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A conference of the representatives of the municipal and shire councils in the district was held last night at the Newcastle Town Hall. It was convened by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To-day is the anniversary of a flood that occurred in the Maitland district in 1851. It will come as a surprise to Maitland people of the present generation to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A league to be known as the Hunter Valley Flood Mitigation League, was formed last night at a conference of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The cyclonic storm which lashed Sydney and Gosford districts this morning struck Newcastle with gale force at 4 p.m. Signal Hill reported that the southerly wind had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Having been lost since yesterday in a howling storm which swept the district throughout the night, Thelma Nipporess aged 2½, was found by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific storm burst over Gosford to-day, and following incessant and heavy rain since 8 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While cyclonic conditions in Sydney are still acute, and the danger of flooding in the Gosford district has not yet passed, Newcastle, apart from the five hours' buffeting by the terrific gale last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →For the second time within three months Gosford district was flooded yesterday by torrential rain, which began about midnight, and continued with unabated force…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Torrential rain was experienced over an extensive area of the coastal district yesterday, particularly in the Hawkesbury and metropolitan districts. Widespread flooding was occasioned, and very heavy damage was caused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest reports indicate that the cyclone is coming up with renewed force. At 3 p.m. the Signal Station…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wind velocities up to 70 miles, an hour were recorded at South Head signal station to-night. Heavy rain made it impossible to see more than…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Would the Glen Innes mail get through? It seemed doubtful, but the Railway Department bad…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE INTERSTATE liner Canberra hove-to in Rose Bay unable to berth in Darling Harbor because of the storm. UNHAPPY "HAPPY VALLEY—The unemployed at Perouse made the best of a bad job when the wind tore through their flimsy homes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Battling through the terrific rainstorm in which nothing could be seen past the bow of the vessel, and against high seas and a strong south-cast gale, the Co…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One of the most serious effects of the gale was at the Randwick Military Hospital to-night, when the roof of ward 28 was torn off, and 30 T.B. patients were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At midnight it was still raining heavily in Sydney, and the gale was blowing as strongly as ever. Last night there were reports from…
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