Rain and Storms Predicted Cyclone Not Likely to Hit Newcastle
Rain and thunderstorms, with some severe squalls, are predicted for the Newcastle district at the week-end. The State Divisional Meteorologist…
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Floods & storms, 1940
271 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 14
Cyclone Threat Less Says Mr. Mares Sydney
The cyclone which developed late yesterday afternoon between Lord Howe Island and the north coast of New South Wales has started to move out to sea…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fierce Storm at Muswellbrook Houses Damaged, Fruit Trees Stripped MUSWELLBROOK
For 12 minutes this afternoon a fierce storm swept Muswellbrook. Rain, accompanied by hail as big as marbles, poured down, overrunning watertables…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →May Get Food From Air Flood Victims on Hills Epic Journey by Natives Darwin
Food may have to be dropped from the air to a constable and 30 aborigines and to Rev. C. S. Port, his wife, and the mission staff, who…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Swept by Early Morning Southerly Gale
Early this morning a strong southerly wind of almost gale velocity swept Newcastle but caused little damage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Violent Storm at Grafton Hangar Demolished Glider Wrecked, Plane Damaged Grafton
A terrific wind and rainstorm this afternoon demolished the hangar at South Grafton aerodrome, smashed part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aborigines' Courage in Flood Havoc Destruction in Northern Territory Settlers Flee To High Ground DARWIN
Marooned by the flood that brought terror and destruction to the valleys of the Roper River and its tributaries, several settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ship Afire in Gale All Passengers Rescued LONDON
All 417 passengers of the Italian liner Orazio (11,669 tons) whi[?] caught fire in the Mediterranean, have been rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Food for 12 DAYS Horseman Marooned by Floods Roper River Waters Now Falling Darwin
When inland rivers recently became flooded a marooned horseman went with-out food for 12 days. This was stated in a message received in Darwin to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heat and Gale at Adelaide Adelaide
A gale, with a velocity of between 60 and 70 miles an hour, struck Adelaide and suburbs late this afternoon. It was accompanied by a mild dust storm…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Japan Gets Angry Storm Over Liner Incident BELIEVES U.S.A. Acting with Britain (Australian Associated Press.) New York, January 24
The situation in the Far East is rapidly deteriorating, says the Shanghai correspondent of the "New York Times."…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Orphans of the Storm
—From the "Melbourne Herald."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lived with Natives During Floods Station Woman's Ordeal DARWIN
During the recent floods in the Roper River district, the wife of a station owner lived with natives for three days. Her only food was aboriginal damper…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Other States Warned Flood of Counterfeit Notes SYDNEY
Sydney police have warned all other States against the circulation of counterfeit £5 notes. More than 200 of these notes were issued…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brief Storm Wrecks Hall Adelaide
In a terrific gale, which lasted only 10 minutes, the public hall was blown down, and dwellings unroofed, at Waukaringa, 235 miles north of Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cooking Galley Wrecked in Storm Grafton
A severe storm, accompanied by terrific wind, severe lightning and thunder, lashed the small railway sidings of Koolkhan and Kyarran this afternoon. The wind…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe Storm As Climax Queensland's Worst Heat Wave Fireball Hits Brisbane Suburb Brisbane
The climax of the State's worst heat wave was a severe electrical storm, accompanied by torrential rain, which broke over, the city and suburbs to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Just Missed Heavy Rain May Still Come, Says Weather Man
According to Mr. Cyril Griffiths, the amateur meteorologist, of Bar Beach. Newcastle has missed some much-needed rain by a narrow margin of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rain, Real Rain Falls on Newcastle Deluge in City Music On The Roofs
Heavy rain fell in Newcastle to-day for the first time for months. In three quarters of an hour half an inch was recorded at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →City Swept by Heavy Rain Poles Alight, Shocks at Adamstown More Falls Unlikely
In a short thunderstorm yesterday afternoon Newcastle had more than twice as much rain as in the whole of January…
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