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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 16
LONDON, Sunday: Unrest, strikes and violence are reported from countries in the grip of food shortages. In Tokio, a crowd demanding rice tried to storm the Imperial Palace, while in Poland extra bread has been rushed to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: In a howling southerly gale, the trawler Pahau (500 tons), broke adrift from the steamer Matai at 6.30 a.m. today, 200 miles east of Sydney. The trawler was being towed from New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIX YEARS AGO this month Germany invaded France and the British Empire found sterner business on hand than celebrating…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →KEMPSEY, Sunday—Lower Macleay landholders, last night, asked Mr .R. S. Vincer, M.L.A., to ascertain whether channelling machines,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday morning.—Automatic sprinklers checked an outbreak of fire which caused damage to merchandise in David Jones store,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ORANGE, Sunday.—Carrying a sick woman to Tasmania to enable her to see her family for the first time in two years, a New England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Children listen to a flood of sensationalism on the radio between 5 and 7 p.m. in many cases, because their parents want to hear the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY: Heavy rain overnight and early today washed out galloping on most Sydney tracks and even Rosebery, one of the best wet weather courses, was closed. For most tracks three inches were…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →NEW YORK, June 5.—The odd spectacle of breadlines in the world's richest city was witnessed in many parts of New York to-day as a result of the current 25 per cent. reduction of domestic deliveries of flour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Framed in the awnings on Hunter River Steamship Co.'s wharf, the U.S. vessel Sam Field steams towards the Basin after being cleared by the port medical authority…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NEW YORK, June 7.—Pulling hair and screaming murder, hundreds of women stormed Brooklyn butchers' shops in a frantic effort to get a share…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unless attention is given the roadway at Hawley's Crossing, serious trouble, loss of crops and heavy expenditure would be incurred should…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Damage caused by recent floods in the Lower Hunter Shire Council area was estimated yesterday by the engineer (Mr. W. B. Lindsay) to be…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Installation of a floodlighting system equal to any in the Common-wealth would begin at Newcastle Showground next week, the Show…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →OVERFLOWING RIVER CHEMUNG, recently flooded the Eastern League Baseball park at Elmira, New York. Nearby residential areas were inundated. When flood -waters receded it was found that one-third of the city of Elmira had been under water…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In a move to prevent street floodings during wet weather, at Mayfield West, a request for the removal of grass and rubbish from openings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TEHERAN, June 19. A.A.P.—The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers overflowed their banks and flooded over 1000 acres of agricultural land,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: Mountainous seas, whipped by a 60 miles an hour southerly gale, are pounding the N.S.W. coast. Two people were killed and many injured in last night's storm in Sydney, which blew off roofs, smashed windows, razed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, June 23. A.A.P.—Angry housewives last night stormed the offices of the Labour Party at Bethnal Green, shouting "We want…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floodlighting at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, during the Victory celebrations…
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