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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
319 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16
After heavy rain low-lying parts of the country are often flooded and many motorists find their homeward way barred by turgid water, and unless they are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A proposal to drain the flood waters off the South Maitland district by the construction of a watercourse from Wallis Creek, through Howe's Lagoon, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Newcastle Homing Pigeon Society's race on Saturday was a disastrous one for members who had entered birds. Of the 92 birds released at Moree, only…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tarro Shire Council met at East Maitland on Tuesday. The President (Cr. J. T. B. Butler) occupied the chair, and there were also present Cr. T. McCarthy, J. A…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →It is expected that the work at erecting Hood lights at the Newcastle Ocean Baths will be completed to-morrow night and that the lights…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With the pension alterations announced yesterday, the Government will now command the full Support of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weather conditions changed rapidly over New South Wales last night. A storm, described by the Weather Bureau as "a shallow closed-cursed depression" spread…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →All the low-lying country near Deniliquin is being covered by the rising flood waters, and the Edwards River has risen 18 inches since yesterday. It now stands…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle police received a special flood teaming this afternoon. During the past 24 hours heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain is still falling over the north-eastern quarter of the State. Many of the districts,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Several youths who had been turned out of a dance hold by the friends of the Soviet Union in a hall in a city building last night stormed the building with rifles,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Captain Les Holden, one of the best known of Australian airmen, Ralph Virtue, of Lismore, and Dr. George R. Hamilton, of Bellevue Hill, Sydney, were killed outright when a Puss Moth aeroplane, piloted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →There were ominous rises in many country rivers to-day and further heavy rain will increase the flood danger in some centres…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle was in the grip of a storm of almost tropical intensity, which drenched the city, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The torrential rain which fell over Newcastle and suburbs yesterday afternoon severely taxed the capacity of drains in the low-lying portions. Seventy points…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tim 'McCoy figures in a lot of action in Texas Cyclone, his newest Columbia picture which opens to-morrow at the Victoria Theatre. Action starts with the first scene when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle experienced another storm of almost tropical intensity to-day which caused temporary…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →I cannot understand why so little interest is taken in Australia in daylight saving, which is such a boon in England, Of course, as far as the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Boy: "Dad, the barometer has fallen." Father: "Very much?" Boy (with-guilt): "About five feet…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The body of F. W. Rolf, poultry farmer, of Windsor, who disappeared from his home yesterday, was found in Ricksby Creek, between Windsor and Clarendon,…
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