Hail and Snow Storm Damage in Victoria MELBOURNE
Many parts of Southern Victoria were swept by hail and a snow storm before noon to-day. Melbourne was visited by a gale, which…
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Floods & storms, 1931
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After the Floods Murray's Course Not Changed Effect of Melting Snow Adelaide
The course of the Murray River is not likely to be changed by the floods, according to those who have had experience of previous inundations. It is considered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →200,000 Drowned in China Terrible Devastation Follows Floods Huge Relief Bill Shanghai
Floods are still taking an appalling toll of human lives in Northern China. More than 200,000 persons have been drowned in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Preselection Ballot Storm Did Man Get Dole Job to Withdraw? Questions in House Sydney
The storm that has arisen over the Reid preselection ballot reached the State Parliament to-day, when Mr. Sanders (Nat.) naked it a man named…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods in Hankow Yang-tse Begins to Fall Danger of Epidemics (Australian Press Association.) SHANGHAI, September 2
Hopes are held out for the return of the Yang-tse liver to normal level in three weeks. Consequent upon a 6-inch drop in the past 48 hours, officials of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Suburbs Flooded Heavy Rain at Adelaide £5500 Damage at Factory Adelaide
Many suburbs of Adelaide have been flooded and houses severely damaged as a result of, heavy rain which fell in Adelaide and on the Mount Lofty ranges last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cyclone's Lash Coastal Areas Suffer Damage in South Woman Drowned at Jamberoo
A violent storm, with wind reaching cyclonic force, occurred over coastal areas, including the South Coast, Sydney, and Newcastle areas last night. The severity of the disturbance had slackened…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Extensive Damage Caused Last Night in Coastal Areas By Sudden Storm No Dismissals on Sewer Job Assurances by Works Officers Union Policies
Both the Deputy Director of Public Works (Mr. Vowell). who visited Newcastle to-day, and the Engineer in Charge…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Waters Sweep on Torrens River Damage Adelaide
The flood waters, which swept the bills and suburbs and did damage estimated at £30,000. have subsided in most districts to-day, although…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Lottery Drawing— Floods Devastate Farms
SIR John Butlers drawing the marble for the first prize…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Braved Gale
Some of the hardy souls who braced the heavy weather yesterday morning to walt pa[?] in a qucu[?] for the State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rain and Snow Severe Cyclonic Storm Woman Drowned Gale Delays Shipping SYDNEY
A violent storm struck Sydney in the early hours of this morning, causing damage in most of the suburbs. A woman was drowned in a creek near Jamberoo,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£30,000 DAMAGE Adelaide's Severe Storm Flood Position Easier Adelaide
Yesterday's storm in Adelaide and suburbs caused damage estimated to-day, at £30,000. The greatest damage was suffered by market gardeners and orchardists, at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gale on Coast Ships Return to Port Pelaw Main in Rough Seas
With a southerly wind blowing at gale force, and rough seas battering is coast, the storm which has affected other parts of the State. made itself felt in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storms Sweep France Paris, September 4
Storms swept Central and Southern France to-day, causing damage amounting to several million franes. A railway was out in three places near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods in Yorkshire Factories Forced to Close LONDON, September 5
Two to three inches of rain fell in 24 hours in Yorkshire and the Midlands to-day, where the worst floods for 50 years have occurred. Rivers burst their banks,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Millions Starving Aftermath of Hankow Flood SHANGHAI, September 5
The clearest picture yet drawn of the Hankow floods is contained in a statement from the National Flood Relief Commission, released this afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Huge Flood Toll in China Million Dead Is Latest Estimate Shanghai
The Chinese estimate that one ml[?] persons have been drowned through the bursting of the banks of the Yellow and Tunganshlen rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Orphan of the Storm
This car collided with a pole at the intersection of Elizabeth and Liverpool streets, Sydney, during a storm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Flood Mitigation Conference Will Be Reassembled Preparing Scheme
Delegates from all the municipalities and shires in the Newcastle Cessnock-Maitland area will be asked to reassemble shortly to consider…
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