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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
645 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 33
The Hunter River Flood Mitigation and Prevention League, which met at West Maitland last night, carried a resolution that representations be made to the State…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Whether flood mitigation should be tackled as a national or semi-national work, was debated at a meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The latest estimate of the cyclone toll places the death-roll at 76. The lugger Alexia, which was believed to have foundered, reached Cairns at 12.30 p.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fears for the lugger, Alexia, which had been practically given up for lost, were allayed yesterday, when the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AERIAL March for signs of missing luggers and launches begin (above) at Pilot T. H. McDonald takes off from this…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cairns police received telegraphic advice from Thursday Island stating that the only luggers lost in the cyclone were the Mildred and Rotophis…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The report from Shanghai that some 10,000 Chinese have perished owing to floods from the Yellow River draws attention to experiments which have been…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fears that Barney Keiswetter, the South African boxer, had perished in the cyclone, which struck North Queensland last week, were dispelled to-day, when it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The heroism displayed by William James McCaughey, 13, who was drowned, and his brother, Jack, 16, who went to the rescue of a man and girl in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE LIGHTHOUSE AND HUTS of the Research Station of the Great Barrier Reef Committee at Low Isles, North Queensland. The buildings were demolished by the recent cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A message from Innisfail states that three luggers which were believed to have been lost in the cyclone a fortnight ago are safe. These are the Waikato, Parama…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A storm of criticism has arisen from the ranks of women athletes at the extraordinary decision of the Empire Games Committee that girl swimmers, Claire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle and suburbs were drenched by torrential rain yesterday afternoon. All the week-end threatening clouds had drifted by, but except for some scattered…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Completed 10 years ago at a cost exceeding £120,000, the big jetty, at Onslow, the north-west coast port for the pastoral area, has been demolished by a cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Caught in the fierce cyclone which ravaged the coastal town of Onslow during the week, two aeroplanes, owned by West Australian Airways Limited, crashed. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unsettled weather prevailed during the week-end in coastal districts and over the northern inland areas of New South Wales due to the persistence of tropical dips or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Food is still urgently needed at Onslow, which received the full force of the cyclone last week. The Government relief ship will, on arrival to-morrow, send food…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy rain. described by the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) as the forerunner of extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The statement that the work of year[?] had been swept away by the recent floods in the Richmond and Windsor municipalities and Colo Shire, was made by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Great loss of life occurred in terrific floods in the central and eastern. United States when a wave of hot weather…
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