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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
557 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 28
After spending three anxious days and two nights the people of Cooktown received word late last night that the cyclone which threatened to hit the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aborigines aroung Lake Macquarie, years ago, used to tell a story of a great flood, during which, they said, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MAKING A DASH for sheller during the heavy rain this morning,—A sidelight in Scott-street…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the deluge which enveloped the city during the peak hour of citywards traffic yesterday, hundreds of workers and schoolchildren were trapped. The photograph shows two girls who were determined to be on time for work, at all costs and paid the penalty— wet feet…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Darwin pearling fleet is sate. It suffered little harm in the cyclone which swept the pearling grounds on Thursday. A lugger owned by Gregory and Co., which returned Darwin yesterday, reported that the fleet was warned of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A lugger which returned to Darwin to-day with a sick diver, who is unconscious brought the first news of the pearling fleet since the cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"To-day you have a glorious opportunity. The capitalists are in your hands," declared Sir Stafford Cripps, Socialist…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Air services between Sydney and Brisbane were cancelled today due to the bad weather over the route. The 8 a.m. 'planes did not leave…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam announced to-day that her proposed round-the-world flight had been postponed owing to a storm raging between California and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New South Wales is in the grip to-day of the cyclonic storm which caused havoc and floods in Northern Australia. Torrential rain is drenching the greater part of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Heavy rain over the watershed of the Clarence canoed the river and its main tributaries, the Orara, and Nymboida Rivers, to rise to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle has had a generous share of the rain that has fallen over the State under the influence of the monsoonal disturbance. The total registration has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Severe gales off the coast hampered shipping and disorganised air services to-day, and heavy rain caused floods in every river from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Marooned by floods, the Minister for Commerce (Dr. Page), who will be Acting Prime Minister from Monday, when Mr. Lyons leaves Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When he attended the meeting of Tarro Shire Council yesterday afternoon. Mr. W. A. H. Howarth, M.L.A., advised the councillors that the new floodgates which…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Clarence River, at Copmanhurst, was 23 feet this morning, and rising steadily, but the weather has cleared, and there is no danger of further flooding. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Minister for Commerce (Dr. Earle Page) Is still marooned on his Boolneringbar Station property…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Minister for the Interior (Mr. T. Paterson) said to-day that reports he had received on the Darwin cyclone indicated that the damage was considerable, but not…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Late last night, with, a thunder-like roar, the swollen Ouse River broke through at Soham Lode, in the lowlying fen country of England. The water came…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Although waters in most areas affected by floods are now slowly subsiding, some inland centres are still isolated. Heavy stock losses are reported in some districts…
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