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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
271 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 14
John Allen his son, aged 10, and his daughter, aged eight, were drowned to-day at Pelican Creek, 30 miles from Collinsville, when their home was submerged…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The special correspondent of the British United Press says Narvik is the chief area of hostilities. The Norwegian military command appears to expect that…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Acting Premier (Mr. Cooper) has called for a report of the Burdekin flood damage in the Ayr district, where, it is reported, the actual damage is not less…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The official forecast for the Hunter and Manning districts to-day was further rain, with heavy falls in parts, conducive to local flooding…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Racing conditions at Randwick on Saturday were the works for many years. Nearly an inch and a half of rain fell during the afternoon. Practically every race was run in heavy rain, and in two cases the official caller could not describe the races…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In little more than an hour last night four persons, including a two-year-old child, were killed in motor-car crashes in the metropolitan area. The accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The River Plate has flooded large sections of the city. Twenty are dead and 50,000 homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →With a view to installing a system of flood-lighting in Beaumont-street. Hamilton, the Central Ward Progress Association will confer with a committee of local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Do the business-men of Beaumont-street, Hamilton, want the footpaths to bo flood-lit? The question was debated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Two men were killed in Sydney tonight when struck by motor vehicles during a rain storm. A heavy rain storm at Bankstown…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Dutch East Indies are not likely to cause immediate concern, the Associated Press learns from authorities in London…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Heavy rain on Saturday morning callused a postponement of the inspection of mosquito-breeding places by the Greater Newcastle Health Committee, arranged for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The last race of the Toronto Vee-jay Dinghy Club season on Saturday was sailed in the worst conditions of the season. The wind reached gale force at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Their cries for help drowned by wind and rain, three girls and three men were rescued by the pilot steamer Captain Cook…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Another series of meteorological dips and depressions is prevailing in central inland districts. "This new phase came into evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A cyclonic depression is operating 200 miles east of Gabo Island. It has brought gales and rain in the south of the State. Cast of the Darling River…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A severe thunderstorm broke over Sydney at 4 o'clock this morning. Steady rain fell for more than an hour. A equally south-west wind swept the metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A declaration reported to have been made by Anton Mussert, the leader of the Dutch Nazis, that the Dutch Nazis would not intervene on either side if…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In Belgium 300 uniforms of a foreign Government were found in a village near Aix-la-Chapelle. The uniforms were hidden in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On the eve of the "great inquest" in Parliament into the Norway campaign and the conduct of the war, the fire of public criticism continues intense in Britain. "We are fighting in our spare time, with our spare…
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