Launch Upset in Gale Darwin
Messrs. Jack Murray, Leo Hickey and Harry White consider themselves fortunate. While returning to Darwin from…
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Floods & storms, 1940
271 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 14
Like Inland Sea Territory Floods Now Subsiding DARWIN
Latest reports from the interior state that the flood waters are subsiding. The Katharine River, which rose five inches higher than its record level of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two Persons Struck by Lightning Electric Storm Over Sydney SYDNEY
In an electric storm to-day lightning injured a father and his son near St Mary's, struck a tram at Mosman and a fence at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five Dead in Fierce N.Z. Gale Yacht Runs Ashore Holiday Makers Marooned AUCKLAND
Five lives were lost as the result of a terrific gale at the weekend. Four men were drowned when the new yacht Ngahuia was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →O'reilly Wins Duel with Bradman 20,000 at Match Storm Delays Start Sydney
More than 20,000 people were present when play was resumed to-day in the Sheffield Shield match to see Bradman bat, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Only Five Points in Storm Promise Unfulfilled at Newcastle
A few points of rain fell in Newcastle yesterday afternoon. People who saw in stoemelouds the prospect that at last relief had come…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Violent Storm Over Sydney Two Shocked; Tram Out of Action SYDNEY
Lightning injured a man and boy near St. Marys during a severe electrical storm which swept over the city and suburbs shortly before noon to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Flood Waters in North Receding Darwin
Although many square miles of country in the interior are still inundated, the flood waters are steadily subsiding. The Kathering River has now dropped…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Hail Storm in Wingham District Wingham
Reports from outlying districts give particulars of the heavy hall storm that struck the district on Monday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trees Uprooted in Storm Campers' Narrow Escapes GRAFTON
Trees were uprooted and tents were damaged when torrential rain swept the Wooli district. An infant had a narrow escape from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Braved Flood to Attend Maori Funeral Wellington (N.z.)
One thousand Maori mourners braved a flood to attend the funeral of Tau Henare, for 24 years a member of Parliament for the northern Maori…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheds Unroofed in Gale Singleton
During a thunderstorm yesterday afternoon, parts of the district received the full force of a severe gale which developed into a whirlwind in places. Between…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wiped Out by Flood Anglican Mission at Roper River Residents Clung to Trees All Night Melbourne
The Roper River Anglican Mission station, about 310 miles east of Darwin, has been wiped out by flood. No lives were lost…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Storm Damage at Greta
WRECKED BY CYCLONIC STORM. When a sudden storm hit Greta at 7 p.m. last night it wreaked havoc in 10 minutes…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cyclone Damage Near Canberra Canberra
In 20 minutes, a cyclone late yesterday afternoon blasted a path 250 yards wide and three miles long through timber and orchard country…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Killed by Lightning Storms Sweep Queensland BRISBANE
During storms which swept the State last night and to-day one man was killed by lightning and another rendered unconscious. Two children received shocks…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Severe Storm Sweeps Upper Hunter Muswellbrook And Denman MUSWELLBROOK
One of the most severe storms in local history passed over Muswellbrook at one o'clock to-day. For twelve minutes rain poured…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Narrow Escapes at Greta in Violent Storm Damage From Flying Debris
Linesmen from Singleton began at daylight this morning to repair the telephone lines broken by flying debris in the cyclonic storm…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cyclonic Storm Hits Greta Shops and Homes Damaged in Restricted Area Over Inch of Rain in 10 MINUTES
In 10 minutes last night a cyclonic storm roared through Greta, leaving a trail of wreckage. Damage, though widespread, was not serious. No one was injured. The storm burst out of a quiet night, about 7 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bravery During Floods Roper River Constable Commended MELBOURNE
The bravery of Constable Mahoney, of the Roper River Police Station, during the floods this week, was specially commended in a telegram sent to-day by…
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