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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1938

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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