No Floodlighting Poll Council Will Send Circulars
Greater Newcastle Council declined Hamilton Central Progress Association's request that it should conduct a poll among Beaumont-street property owners…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
Floods & storms, 1940
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Heavy Rain on North Coast
Rain registrations in N.S.W. during the 24 hours ended 9 a.m. to-day were: HASTINGS, HUNTER AND MANNING: Comboyne 2 points, Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lightning Raid by R.A.F. Deluge of Bombs on German Lines Projectiles Dropped At Rate Of 100 A Minute LONDON
Main feature of a day of great activity for the Royal Air Force was a lightning 10-minute action in which high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped at the rate of 100 a minute…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Tunnel to Stand Fierce Gale Melbourne
The biggest wind tunnel in the Southern Hemisphere—essential to technical development in Australia's war stimulated aircraft Industry—will probably be finished in two…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Storm and Spirit
Let me resolve this tragic night. To give my King my all; My thoughts, my acts, my wealth, my life—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain Will Face Japan Will Not Bow To Present Storm LONDON
Consultations are proceeding, it is understood, between the English and Australian Governments regarding the situation in the Far East. The British War Cabinet has dealt with the matter in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Town Flooded
TOKIO, July 10.—The Osaka correspondent of the Domei news agency reports that 73,000 buildings, including the Osaka railway station, have been inundated by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broken Water Main Floods House
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Less than six hours after a 4 feet water main in Livingstone-road, Marrickville, had been repaired after bursting yesterday, it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anglg-japanese Agreement Raises a Storm London
The announcement in Tokio of an agreement between Britain and Japan to prevent the passage of certain goods to China, via Burma and Hongkong, is confirmed in London. A full statement will probably be made by Lord Halifax…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violent Storm in Yugoslavia
LONDON, July 18.—The Berlin news agency says a violent thunderstorm in Yugoslavia caused damage estimated at £1,300,000. A landslide buried a goods…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Federal Cabinet Is Again in a Storm Division on Two Major Issues Melbourne
Fresh hostilities are expected to break out among Federal Ministers. Cabinet is seriously split on two major issues—a decision to petition the British Parliament for power to postpone the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floodlit Waterfall
THE BEAUTY OF THIS WATERFALL is enhanced when, at night, floodlights shine through the cascading water. It is the Leura Cascade, at Katoomba…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Noel Coward Causes Storm in Commons London
A storm developed to-day in the House of Commons over the visit of the playwright and actor, Noel Coward, to the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Rain Is Not Expected Sydney
Since yesterday, a very low pressure system with considerable intensity has developed south of Tasmania, the Assistant State Meteorologist (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rain in South Sydney
Rain has fallen over southern parts of N.S.W. and some places had substantial amounts. The Sydney catchment area again…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Raid News Muddle Causes Storm London
Admitting that the Air Ministry neither can, nor wants to, compete with Goebbels's famed "progress" reports of the attacks on London, something must be done to remove the absurd situation by which on one occasion the censors refused to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Winter Cyclone in North Queensland Brisbane
Towns along the north-east coast of Queensland have been warned to prepare for another cyclone—the eighth this year—which is now raging between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cyclone Expected in Queensland
BRISBANE, Thursday.—A warning to prepare for another cyclone has been given to towns along the north-east coast of Queensland. Wind velocity is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood of Arms in Britain London
"We now have an army that is armed. We now have an arms industry greater in output and far greater in future…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone Still Active
BRISBANE, Friday.—The cyclone which raged between Willis Island and Mackay was still being experienced in that area to-day, although it had apparently moved…
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