Scattered Storms Still Hot Inland SYDNEY
Scattered light rain, with thunder-storms in central inland and south-eastern districts, was recorded during the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. to-day…
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Floods & storms, 1939
381 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 20
Party of Six Safe Marooned Surveyors North Queensland Floods Tully
Taking seven hours to cover 12 miles in the swollen Tully River and Jarra Creek a search party in a motor launch to-day reached the survey party of six…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →South African Town Isolated by Big Floods Johannesburg
Floods have isolated Barberton, a gold mining centre, and drowned 40 people. A food shortage for whites and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Devastates Island Capetown
A cyclone to-day devastated the Island of Angoche, off the coast of Portuguese East Africa. Every house and two lighthouses were razed. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Forty Lives Lost Devastating Floods in the Transvaal Natives Face Famine Johannesburg, February 13
Forty lives have been lost up to the present in devastating floods in the Transvaal. Barberton, an important mining town,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bombers Rehearse....Thames In Flood
U.S. BOMBERS massed on the runway at San Diego, California, ready to take off for manoeuvres in the Caribbean Sea for one of the most ambitious plane…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cyclone Hits East Africa Cape Town, February 13
A cyclone to-day devastated the island of Augoche, off the coast of Portuguese East Africa. Every house and two lighthouses were razed. Two Europeaus,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Man Drowned? Fell Off Horse in Flooded River Heavy Queensland Rain Brisbane
William Joseph Clarke 19, is believed to have been drowned in the flooded Mulgrave River to-day. Clark was crossing the river on a horse,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Throsby Creek Periodical Flooding Suggested
The Hunter District Water Board was urged yesterday to flood the Throsby Creek stormwater channel, near the bridge at Tighe's Hill, as a means…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heroism in Maitland Gale Recalled Death of Sergeant W. Williams
THE DEATH of Sergeant W. Williams in Sydney yesterday recalls the wreck of the Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Company's steamer Maitland off Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Immortal Poet Born During Storm Robert Burns Quoted In All Quarters Of Globe LONDON, January 25
One hundred and eighty years ago, in a mud-walled cottage in Ayrshire, hard-driven William Burns and his wife, Agnes, looked with pride at their dark headed, dark eyed first-born…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fears for Five Persons Trapped By Floods? ADELAIDE
Fears are held for the safety of Mr. Phil Gibson, his wife and child, and two men, who left Maree by car a week ago for Birdsville. It is thought that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Almost As Bad As Floods
Animals owned by farmers on Dartmoor, Devonshire, were imperilled recently by huge snowdrifts. Many beasts trapped in deep snow were rescued by men sent down by a London organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dictatorship Front Nazi Activity in United States Meeting Clash Threat to Call Out "Storm Troopers" (Australian Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, February 22
The anniversary of George Washington's birthday offered an opportunity for much skirmishing along the so-called "Dictatorship…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Natives Drowned Flooding in South Africa DURBAN, February 24
A renewal of flooding in the Eastern provinces washed away railways and crippled vital services. Twelve natives have been drowned and hundreds of people…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Balloons Down in Flames: Freak Storm London
A solitary flash of lightning during a thunderstorm struck a winch, run up a steel cable and brought down in flames one of six balloons from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fire Refugees Now Flood Sufferers MELBOURNE
It was reported to-night that the bush fire refugees' camp at Noojee, on the Latrobe River, has been flooded out…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →General Rain Hope of Extension From Victoria Riverina Falls Telegraphic Interruption by Floods SYDNEY
Indications are that general rain which has been experienced in Victoria is extending to New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Wash in Flood Where Bushfires Raged MELBOURNE
The only home in the Noojee district which survived the bush fires of five weeks ago is awash to-day in flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Threats in Victoria Melbourne
Floods are sweeping out from rivers in the north-east, where more rain has brought the total past seven inches since Friday…
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