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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

557 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 28

Frances Pilot Steers Successfully Through the Storms

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 4

Despite almost weekly predictions of his imminent fall, M. Blum and his Ministry live on. Again yesterday M. Blum was accorded a vote of confidence. What has actually happened in France, however, is that that country has undergone a bloodless revolution of social and economic rea djustment…

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Boomi on Rations Town Isolated by Floods Moree

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1937 · page 1

Isolated by floods, residents of Boomi have had to subsist on rations of flour, potatoes and other foodstuffs…

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Crash in Storm Imperial Airways' New Giant Flying-boat Five Killed: Only One Survivor (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, March 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1937 · page 5

Four of the crew of five were killed and the only passenger, a woman, was fatally injured when Imperial Airways' new giant flying-boat, the Capricornus, crashed in a snowstorm in France while on its maiden voyage from Southampton to Alexandria…

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Warships Damaged Gale in Mediterranean LONDON, March 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1937 · page 8

An Admiralty dispatch announces that H.M.S. Arethusa and H.M.S. Penelope were damaged by a severe gale in the Mediterranean, end wore obliged to…

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Gale Delays Strathaird Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 6

A heavy gale delayed the departure of the inward mail steamer Strathaird six hours last night…

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Dust Storms in U.S.A.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 11

Washington, March 27.—The Agricultural Department reports that the dust storm area in the south-western States will be extended greatly unless heavy…

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Great Gale of 1897 Maitland Wreck Described

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 4

The Cawarra gate of 1866 and the Maitland gale of 1897 were both named after two steamers which were wrecked…

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Girl Cricketers at Sea Pass Through Storm Adelaide

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 7

Australian girl cricketers bound to England were tested at seafarers by a cyclonic storm. For the first time since they left…

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Poisoned by Floods Dead Fish in Clarence River Surroundings Affected Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 7

Many dead fish are floating in the South Arm of the Clarence River, and the stream along the foreshores. It is believed that decaying vegetation, washed into the main…

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Skiff Wrecked Gale in Victoria Cold End to Easter Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 5

The Easter holidays came to a wintry conclusion to-day, when temperatures fell so low that falls of snow were received on the Alps. Along the coast the weather…

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Vessel in Trouble in Storm Off Japan Honolulu

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 5

A message that the Fresno city is standing by the American freighter Volunteer, which yesterday sent out an S.O.S. that she was helpless in a…

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They Turned on the Water! Spanish Rebels Flooded Out London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 5

Skilfully using irrigation ditches, loyalists flooded three square miles of the Jarama Valley, three feet deep, compelling the rebels to retire to the…

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American Storms Toll of Life in the South Flood Warnings Issued New York, April 6

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 8

Storms killed at least 12 persons in the southern States and injured 50 on the first anniversary of the tornadoes which resulted in the deaths of 450 persons…

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Storm Fatalities in Southern U.S.A. New York

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 6

Spring storms have killed 12 in the Southern States and have Injured 50. At the same time last year 450. people were killed by tornadoes…

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Two Drowned Seamen from Manunda Swam Flooded River Cairns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 7

Two members of the crew of the Adelaide motor ship Manunda, which arrived at Cairns this morning, were drowned in the Barron River this…

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Storm Damage Repairs at Cessnock Hospital

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 5

A new laundry and boiler room, to replace the buildings destroyed in the cyclonic storm at Cessnock Hospital at the end of last year, are at present…

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Airmen Forced Down in Dust Storm New York

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 5

During a routine training flight near Ban Antonio, Texas, to-day, 21 army students were enveloped in a fierce duststorm and were compelled to land…

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Railway Line Scoured Out by Storm Delay at Redhead Loop Track Covered with Sand

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 5

The violent storms last night marooned people under awnings, tore branches from trees, and scoured out part of…

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Firemen Turned Out in Storm Drenched for Nothing

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 3

Six firemen from headquarter's brigade got a wetting for nothing to-day. During a heavy downpour they were…

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Thunderstorm at Broke

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 6

A severe thunderstorm was experienced at Broke, the area around the post-office seeming to be the centre of the storm. Sixty-seven points of rain…

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