Victorian Floods Recede Rapidly Melbourne
Floodwaters are receding rapidly in the vicinity of yesterday's serious derailment at Winton, six miles from Benalla…
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Floods & storms, 1939
381 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 20
Flood Danger Has Passed Trains on Time Again in South Roads Still Unsafe Towns Will Be Cleaning Up For Days SYDNEY
Although, according to the Weather Bureau, there is still a tendency to some isolated showers near the Murray and on parts of the coast, the flood danger in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods Are Subsiding But Weather Still Threatening SYDNEY
Further light to moderate rains are expected to-day in the flooded Riverina, South-Western and Western areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Slowed Wheels of "Justice"
This month, 107 years ago, the Peterson's Plains Magistrate was cut off from the Plains by heavy floods at Maitland. All correspondence for some days, was handled at Maitland. FROM the end of March in 1832 and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Town Isolated Flood Menace in Victoria Farmers Leave Homes Melbourne
Flood waters from surrounding higher districts swept down upon Numurkah to-day and entered homes. The town is isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods Subside at Forest Job
The Labor Exchange in Newcastle announced to-day that youths who were unable to leave for the Urben-ville forestry job, in the north of New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Children Ate Ant Poison Coroner Told of Tragic Mistake Rush to Hospital Through Floods Melbourne
While Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pollock were milking at their farm on March 21 their three children ate some ant exterminator, which they mistook for…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Electric Storm Assists Naval Gunners at Sea
One of the most remarkable electrical storms seen off the Australian coast. In which lightning flashes lit up the ocean for miles ground…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Skeleton in River Swept Miles in Flood, Police Believe Narromine Inquiries Go on Dubbo
A man's skeleton has been recovered from the Macquarie River near Warren, police who are searching for three men missing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Parents' Story to Coroner Two Children Drowned Car in Flooded Creek Parkes
A graphic description of how she saved her husband from drowning but was unable to rescue two of her children was given by Mrs. Doris Mary Gordon at the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Off Course in Storm Plane Landed on Randwick Racecourse SYDNEY
Mr. Len Caralon, of Randwick, landed a light plane on Randwick racecourse yesterday afternoon, when a storm made visibility extremely difficult…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flew in Own Plane Edwards Back at Darwin Was Down on Beach Short of Petrol in Severe Storm DARWIN
The airman, Roy Edwards, who had been missing since Tuesday, returned to Darwin in his own plane at 6 p.m. to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Interfered Harold Park Trots Off SYDNEY
A few minutes before the first race at the Barold Park trotting meeting was timed to begin to-day, a heavy storm broke over the ground and made the track…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Flashes From Machines "Common Occurrence at Wallarah Mine" Evidence at Inquiry Official Version of Flooding at Dudley
Flashes on the electric coal-cutting machines, and damaged cables, were very common at Wallarah colliery, a machineman told the Royal Commission on Safety…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Burrinjuck Is Safe Minister Assures House Panic Reports Denied Record Flood Would Be Dangerous SYDNEY
Answering Mr. Lang's charge, that the Government had circulated unnecessarily alarming reports about the condition of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rain and Southerly Gales Forecast Sydney
Fresh squally winds, conversing from the south, should bring rain late this afternoon or this evening, with tower temperatures said the Slate Meteorologist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cripps Will Be Storm Centre Of Labor Conference LONDON
A great struggle within the party is promised at Labor's annual conference at Southport at the end of, the month on the Popular Front issue…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Foreign Doctors Appointments by End of Month "No Flooding of Medical Profession" Sydney
The first appointments of foreign doctors to country centres, following the decision of the State Cabinet on Friday, will be made before the end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sell Eggs by Weight Women Cause Storm in Victoria Melbourne
In Melbourne, the women's section of the Victorian Country Party, has thrown a bomb—it wants eggs sold by weight…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Jeers Turn to Cheers Crowd Storm Cricket Oval LONDON
The ready wit of Maurice Leyland saved Yorkshire cricketers in an ugly situation at Ilford Oval yesterday during…
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