Hail Damage Ipswich's Worst Storm Firemen Have Unenviable Experience Ipswich
Damage estimated at several thousand pounds was caused by one of the worst hailstorms in the history of Ipswich this afternoon…
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Floods & storms, 1938
488 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 25
The Foreign Flood
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm at Singleton Singleton
A heavy thunderstorm in the district last evening brought 20 points of rain at Singleton, but within a few miles of the town between two and three inches were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine Flooded AUCKLAND
Hikurangi coalmine in North Auckland was flooded by a strong stream of water, which poured through the main lead workings. The miners had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bendigo Concerned at Water Scarcity "Storm Premier's Office" BENDIGO
Unless demands for adequate steps to overcome the present water shortage are met by the Government hundreds of citizens propose to storm the Premier's office…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storm Delays in Harbor Several Vessels Were Affected
Loading operations at the cranes at Carrington were delayed for an hour and a half and seven vessels—the Automedon. Dundula, Age, Abersea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Worst Storm We Have Known" Shopkeepers' Stories Picture Show Abandoned
"It was the moat terrific storm I've ever seen," declared Mr. J. Klein, of Beaumont, street. "Lightning played…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Panic at Hamilton Women Faint In Beaumont St. Wild Rumors Added to Confusion
A form of panic broke loose in the Beaumont-st., Hamilton, shopping centre last night, at the height of one of the fiercest electric storms in Newcastle's history…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violent Storm Over Newcastle Eight Trams Struck by Lightning Electricity Service Interrupted in Many Suburbs
Eight trams, comprising 13 cars, were struck by lightning in various parts of the Newcastle district last night during a violent storm. Widespread dislocation was caused to the electricity…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →U.S. BOMBER Battered Down in Storm Seven of Crew Killed (Australian Associated Press.) LAGRANGE (Georgia), November 20
Battered down by a terrific rainstorm, a United States Army bomber crashed in a West Georgia forest, killed seven of the crew. The eighth member of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Before the Storm
Despite the promise of a storm—eventually fulfilled during lunch-hour to-day—there were many who went to Newcastle Bench to End what coolness they could. The two young men who flashed shorewards from the waves on their rubber surf-floats had no doubt found the best solution to the problem of keeping cool; but, eves so, the girls beneath the lunihade and the young lady with the basket look satisfied with their solution, too…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Rain Affects Country Week Cricket Hawkesbury Makes Good Start Singleton Bowlers On The Spot SYDNEY
Rain at mid-day interfered with play in the Country Week cricket carnival but most of the teams carried on after the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storm Aftermath Telephone Mechanics Had Busy Week-end
Although most people had practically forgotten Friday night's storm before the week-end was over, it was not until yesterday afternoon that postal mechanics…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood-lubricating Tests
The combined efforts of oil technologists and engineers have achieved much in recent years in perfecting the lubrication of automobile engines. An…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Refugee Flood Increases Many Land In Past Four Months SYDNEY
Since the end of July, 698 refugees of Jewish descent have entered Australia through Sydney alone. The rate of entry has increased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Killed in Gale Wellington (N.z.)
A fierce gale, which swept through the Kirtoki district last night, caused the death of Hilton Broadbent. A motor-lorry Broadbent was driving was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Brickwork Collapses Storm Damage at Cessnock
Brickwork above a baker's store collapsed, electric light poles were blown down and wires broken, and trees uprooted and garage roofs carried away…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →More Electrical Storms Lightning Interrupted Power Service Pipe and Wire Rope Works
Supply of current to Stewarts and Lloyd and Australian Wire Rope Works was interrupted during an electrical storm yesterday afternoon. Stewarts and Lloyds works…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →In Polar Pack Ice Ellsworth's Expedition Ship Fights Through Gale (N.A.N.A.—Copyright.) New York, November 22
Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, leader of an expedition to the Antarctic writes from on board the supply ship Wyatt Earp— "We are 700 miles from the Great…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gale Holds Up Royal Funeral London
Owing to a gale raging in the Channel it was decided this afternoon to postpone the sailing of H.M.S. Royal Oak with, the coffin of the late Queen…
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