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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
381 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 20
There was an audible gasp from a packed gallery at the City Council meeting last night when the much-heralded, "battle" on the Tighe's Hill bridge issue which had provided nearly a week of heated controversy "fizzled" in an atmosphere…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Three hundred Orange motorists hurried out to the local aerodrome to-night when police broadcast an announcement that an aeroplane…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floods in north eastern areas of South Australia have caused further hold-ups of rail and road traffic. The Broken Hill express was delayed yesterday through the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two children, Neta Gordon, aged about five, and Keith Gordon, 3, were drowned last night when a rush of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two children were drowned when the car in which they were riding was overwhelmed by flood waters last night. The victims were Neta and Keith Gordon,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy rain, ranging up to four inches, fell over Western Victoria last night and this morning. Indications are that the falls will continue for at least another…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With weather clearing all over the State, Victoria to-day is assessing the damage suffered in the worst floods for 20…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dawn, a member of the Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, owned and sailed by. B. B. Young, won the long ocean race from Double Bay to Swansea. It started on Thursday night and ended last night long after dusk…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →One hundred and sixty cadets of the Australian Air League took Newcastle by storm when they arrived from Sydney yesterday morning for the first annual…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →One man is believed to have been swept from his ear and drowned by floods in the Seymour district. The Spirit of Progress express was delayed for over five…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With the receding of the flood waters damage was revealed in the northern and north-eastern areas of the State to-day. Loss of stock has been particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →With the end of the Easter holidays, a thunderstorm tendency has returned. To-day should be mostly fine, but very sultry, and this should culminate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods, which have isolated a State Forestry job in Urbenville district (north New South Wales) have necessitated the cancelling of plans to send…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After having served for 49 years in the Postal Department, the Postmaster at New Lambton (Mr. Thomas B. Watkins) is about to retire. For five years he has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Residents in the settlement around Tuggerah Lakes are threatened by waters that have banked up in the lakes, which are closed to the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy rain fell in Victoria to-day. Washaways along the line delayed the special train carrying the Russian Ballet from Melbourne to Adelaide, and the train…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Designed to fly in the sub-stratosphere—at a height of some 15,000 feet—14 airliners have been ordered by the Air Ministry for British Empire routes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With its engine lying on its side and eight heavy trucks piled up at the back of it, a goods train, wrecked through floodwaters weakening the permanent way, is blocking the Spirit of Progress, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An engine and eight heavily-laden trucks were derailed six miles from Benalla at midnight last night. The line collapsed as a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Heavy rain in the southern parts of the State have left some towns surrounded by water. What officials describe as the most serious washaways ever reported on the N.S.W. Southern railways…
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