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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
381 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 20
The Minister for Works and Local Government (Mr. L. O. Martin) advised the Greater Newcastle Municipal Assembly of the A.L.P., which met yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood waters from the Murray liver have now inundated a vast area. Fishermen have been driven from their homes. Hamlets are nearly isolated and fruit…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A cloudburst with hailstorms devastated a belt of farming country about live miles long by 12 miles wide at Nyabing in the south-west…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →TO-days muggy weather—with more moisture in the air and a higher temperature than yesterday—is expected by Mr. Mares to culminate this…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A big storm is threatening in Parliament over the proposed rationing of butter and bacon. Many Commoners suspect this is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One cannot help feeling a great deal of sympathy for the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies), who is being criticsed both by the leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) and the leader of the Country party (Mr. Cameron). In addition, he and his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Swollen by rains which fell over northeastern Victoria for several days, the River Murray has broken its banks and poured over low-lying country at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maize and other crops were destroyed, fruit trees were stripped, poultry killed, and iron tanks pierced, when the worst hall storm for a quarter of a century…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →In a thunderstorm at Broke, about 14 miles from Singleton, yesterday afternoon, rain fell with torrential violence for three hours, flooding cultivation areas…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two hundred and fifty special lamps will be used to floodlight the business section of Beaumont-street, Hamilton, from Hudson to Denison Streets. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following weather forecasts were issued by the Commonwealth Divisional Meteorologist at 9 o'clock last night for the ensuing 24 hours—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A severe thunderstorm swept practically all settled areas in the State early to-day. In Adelaide, the tramways service was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Struck by what he believed to have been a fireball, Mr. T. Thompson, of St. Leonards, had a newspaper knocked out of his hand, and his left arm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heralded by intermittent showers this morning, an intense storm burst over Sydney at 2 p.m. to-day. The rain turned gutters into flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The following weather forecasts were issued by the Commonwealth Divisional Meteorologist at 9 p.m. last night, for the ensuing 24 hours—…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle authorities who know the area consider the Williamtown site selected by the Defence Department for a military aerodrome should be entirely…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A £900,000 contract to stop extensive flooding of the River Euphrates has been awarded by the Iraq Government to a British engineering firm…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Belgian steamer Quenast (560 tons) sank in a storm near the Noordhirder light buoy. A trawler saved five of the crew and two others are missing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mrs. Charlotte Gertrude Flood (formerly Lewis), of Railway Street. Cook's Hill, sought an order for restitution of conjugal rights against her…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"A storm in a tea cup," said Harry Hopman, the Australian Davis Cup team manager, to-day, referring to the discussion by the L.T.A. Council on…
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