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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
168 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 9
Last night's gale which reached a velocity of 70 miles per hour, blew down eleven panels of fencing at the Broadmeadow racecourse. The repairs to the racecourse defence were quickly effected, as the club had a race meeting this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Widespread bush fires, whipped to life by a record 60-mile-an-hour westerly, and falls of snow at Stanthorpe, were startling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The roof was torn and the brick fence blown down of this home in Lloyd Street, Merewether, Note the gaping hole along the edge of the tiled roof. The back fence of this home in Lloyd-Street. Merewether, was flattened. In almost every suburb fences were down and trees damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Wednesday (Our Special Representative: Trained personnel from the Empire Air Scheme pool is now reaching the United Kingdom in great…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →This workman had a big job clearings and deposted on the promenade at Newcastle Beach by Wednesday night's 70-mile-an-hour gale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Public Works (Stormwater Channels Vesting) Hill, which passed through its second reading in the Legislative Assembly, will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, Wednesday (A.A.P.) — "Time is short. A turn in the war is imminent. We must have clouds of aeroplanes, acres of tanks, an avalanche of munitions to equal and surpass the vast stream being thrown against every democratic country in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The gale on October 1 gave some idea of the reliability of the electricity service under adverse conditions, the Manager (Mr. Allbut) informed the Electric…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The storm recently had caused extensive damage to the school, the Headmaster reported to Newcastle Junior High School Parents and Citizens' Association. Mrs. B…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During a storm at Maitland yesterday more than on inch of rain fell within hair an hour. Unlit rain fell after the storm Had passed and 125…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SINGLETON, Monday.—Violent storms, with hail, caused damage over a wide area in the Singleton district yesterday. Many Windows were broken in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Monday (Our Special Representative and A.A.P.)—With besieged Leningrad surrounded by fresh…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Oct. 29.—In a northerly gale four-engined aircraft of Bomber Command last night penetrated far into Germany. They attacked objectives in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON. Monday (A.A.P.). — To-day's Middle East communique says that operations at Tobruk were hindered by duststorms…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SACRAMENTO (Cal.), Nov. 3.—A United States Army Flying Fortress four-engined bomber crashed in a heavy storm mountains in the neighbourhood of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MUSWELLBROOK,—With unexpected suddenness, one of the fiercest electrical disturbances of the present summer was experienced throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE following weather forecasts were issued at 9 o'clock last night for the ensuing 24 hours— Newcastle, Hunter, Manning:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →So heavy was the downpour in the western end of the city this morning when a storm broke over Newcastle that miniature flood conditions were experienced before the water could get away. This photograph was taken near the intersection of Hunter and Union Streets, where he would have been a hardy soul—or one in an urgent hurry—to cense the street or to walk her footpath…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nearly an inch of rain fell in n severe thunderstorm in Newcastle this morning. The registration at 2 p.m. was 87…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Members of Tarro and West Maitland Councils who inspected the new flood-rates near the junction of Wallis Creek with the Hunter River yesterday…
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