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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1931

579 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 29

Minor Cyclone Damage at Boolaroo Houses Unroofed Flying Sheets of Iron Cut Through Wires

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1931 · page 9

A minor cyclone struck Boolaroo at 3.40 p.m. yesterday. Racing across Lake View-street, it swirled along First and Second streets, damaging houses and…

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Family Imprisoned in Wrecked House at Boolaroo House Blown Off, Piles Terrific Cyclone's Trail of Damage Narrow Escapes

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 September 1931 · page 3

Thrilling stories of hairbreadth escapes during the height of the storm at Boolaroo last night, were told by…

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Police Believe Flood Wiped Out Family Missing for Weeks Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 September 1931 · page 3

Police at Carrathool, on the Murrumbidgee, believe that William Bakshall, his wife, and their eight-year-old son Jack have been drowned in…

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Ships Urged to Assist Stricken Central American City Food Runs Short Cyclone and Tidal Wave Toll Dead Total 300 LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 September 1931 · page 6

Further information received by the Colonial Office from the Governor of British Honduras indicates that the situation is well…

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Police Find Bodies of Flood Victims in an Upturned Boat Carrathool

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 September 1931 · page 1

The bodies or William Bask-shall and his eight-year-old son, Jack, were found in the Murrum bidgee late yesterday afternoon…

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Fire Follows Cyclone and Flood in Stricken American City Big Funeral Pyres Death Toll Numbers a Thousand Great Damage Belize (Honduras)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 6

The work of burying the dead from last week's hurricane, now estimated at more than 1000, went forward to-day, when the fire…

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"Quiet Game of Cards" Causes Storm University Girls at Auckland Auckland

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 6

Card-playing and smoking by young women students at the Auckland University seems likely to cause a heated controversy…

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Storm of Criticism Brisbane Council's Loan Alderman's Visit Overseas Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 10

Because of the storm of criticism which has arisen as a result of the proposal to send him on a financial mission overseas, Ald. Tait has sent a letter to the Lord…

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Flood of Letters for Winner Penalty of Lottery Fame

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 3

The butcher, the baker, though Perhaps not the candle-stick maker of nursery rhyme fame, all called their congratulations to Mr…

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Harvesting Halted Snow Storms in Canada CALGARY (Canada), September 22

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 September 1931 · page 8

With 60 per cent, of harvesting not completed, snowstorms have halted operations throughout Alberta, Heavy damage by frosts is feared…

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Two Women Claim Dead Man Hankow at Mercy of Flood

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 September 1931 · page 6

REMARKABLE series of coincidences in claims by two women for the body of a dead man at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (At left).—Mrs…

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Fishermen's Escape Boat Disabled in Gale MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 September 1931 · page 6

Blown along at the rate of 99 miles an hour in a fierce gale on the Port Phillip Bay to-day, two fishermen in a disabled boat, had a terrifying experience…

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"Smithy" Had an Anxious Time Flying Blind Over Timor Sea "Loud Cheers, Land in Sight!" First Hop in Attempt to Beat Mollison Kingsford Smith's Exclusive Story of Record Flight Compelled to Fly Through Black Monsoonal Storms, But Right on Course

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 1

"Loud cheers, land in sight," wrote, Air-commodore Kingsford Smith in his messages sent exclusively to "The Sun," after he had flown over the Timor Sea from Wyndham…

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A London Letter Who is of the Royal Family?—Great Free-masons' Temple—Testing a Liner Before Building—Flood Lighting—Cheaper Hotels—The Youth of To-dau LONDON, August 13. Scenes at a Scottish Levee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 5

The King, resplendent in the scarlet and gold uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scouts' Guards, sat on a carved oaken throne in the ancient Palace of Holyroad…

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The Flood-lighting of London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 5

So much interest has been aroused in the recent experiments in connection with the flood-lighting of London during the International Illumination Congress…

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Storm Forces Landing Victoria Point, September 26

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 September 1931 · page 5

Kingsford Smith reports that at 7.15 o'clock last night, a heavy storm and blinding rain brought him down on a beach 80 miles south of Victoria Point…

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Red Cross Children Who Spread Joy —::— Seeing London by Floodlights

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 September 1931 · page 6

GOOD FRIENDS of the sick.— Members of the Blue Bell Junior Red Cross Auxiliary, who spend Saturday afternoons visiting hospitals…

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Throsby Creek Work of Deepening Flood Prevention

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 September 1931 · page 4

In an attempt to minimise flood dangers at Wickham, the Public Works Department has started a dredge at work in Throsby Creek, between the Lewis-street…

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Gallery Notes Faraday's Centenary "Electrical Storm" Clashes in Representatives CANBERRA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 October 1931 · page 8

Various questions were asked this afternoon regarding the Conversion Loan—more particularly in regard to the positions dissentients and the interest due…

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Severe Cyclone in Tasman Weather Warning Issued

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 October 1931 · page 3

Centred in the eastern portion of Base Strait, a severe cyclone is gradually moving eastwards, according to a weather warning issued by the…

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