Torrid Christmas Excessive Heat and Dust Storms Queensland Towns Suffer Brisbane
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 December 1938 · page 7
Christmas, 1938, will long be remembered by residents of inland towns in Queensland for they endured over century-high heat and dust storms. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain Thaws Flood Danger in Kent Weather Cost Transport Board £105,000 (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, December 27
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 December 1938 · page 6
Great Britain is warming up, and the thaw is general. The temperature in London jumped up to 38 degrees, resulting in the rapid disappearance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Zona Gale Dead Chicago, December 28
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 December 1938 · page 6
Zona Gale (Mrs. Breese), the novelist, died at Chicago yesterday, aged 64. She was engaged in Journalism in Milwaukee (Wisconsin) and New York until…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Through Storm Film Carried 65 Miles Singleton to Belmont
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 December 1938 · page 4
The name of the picture was "I See Ice," but practically all seen by the motor-cyclists who rushed the film from Singleton to Bolmont last night was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Ends Dry Spell Newcastle Soaked Last Night Lightning Damage Rain Misses Country Areas
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 December 1938 · page 5
Newcastle's dry spell broke early last night with a spectacular thunderstorm, Hours of heavy, soaking rain followed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Damage in W.A. Cyclone Perth
The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 December 1938 · page 13
A cyclonic storm in Cue district late yesterday demolished the Mechanics' Institute at Dawdawn and seriously damaged the porter station…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Poles Alight During Storm Electricity Supply Interrupted
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 December 1938 · page 4
Singleton was without electricity for several hours yesterday morning when several poles on the transmission line caught fire during an electrical storm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Damage in W.A. PERTH
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 December 1938 · page 7
A duststorm, which preceded heavy rain in various parts of the State yesterday, caused serious damage to a number of country districts. Railway services…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →