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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 16
With the Rugby League premiership at a vital stage in the race for the semi-finals, district clubs are trying to keep up players' condition by switching to daylight training. However, in an effort to overcome the present ban on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SEOUL, June 26. A.A.P.—A flood which resulted from eight inches of rain in the past four days, drowned 19 Koreans and rendered nearly 9000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →While there was no wish to adopt an alarmist attitude, steps were being taken to meet any emergency that might arise on Stockton's threatened seafront over the next three days, when big tides were expected, said the secretary of Stockton Progress…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, July 4. A.A.P.—While London sweated last night with the temperature over 70 degrees, storms, which had been visible over France,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The weather has been doing its worst. It has made even the meteorologists look ridiculous so much so that newspaper leading articles have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work has commenced on a £4000 flood-lighting scheme for Newcastle Showground. "When the scheme is complete the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods and heavy rains last April caused damage estimated at nearly £4000 in the Lower Hunter Shire. The Shire Engineer (Mr. W. R. Lindsay) told yesterday's meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →EIGHT years ago to-day a great gale swept the coast of New South Wales. Five ships were wrecked in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CALCUTTA, July 15. A.A.P.—The authorities have sent R.A.F. Dakotas to drop supplies for some of the 500,000 people in Eastern Bengal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Sunday.—William Massey and his son, Albert, were rescued from Port Phillip Bay late this afternoon, after being adrift in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Gales which have lashed the whole of the State have blown down trees and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ROME, July 22. A.A.P.—Forty people are missing, believed drowned, and scores of small vessels were wrecked when a cyclone swept the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE: Precautions are being taken against serious flooding of rivers that is expected within two days,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE.—Streets in Wallan. gatta were flooded today and water at the Hume Weir is highest since 1939. In the opposite corner of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →SYDNEY.—Melting snow, from Kiandra and Yarrangobilly is swelling the Tomtit River and today the river was 12 feet six…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Heavy flooding threatens the south-eastern portion of New South Wales and north-east Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Flood waters are pouring into Tumut Flats (south-east N.S.W.) and many people are preparing to evacuate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE. Thursday. — The steamer Munmorah berthed today six days out of Sydney. The trip should have taken 68…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →ALBURY, Thursday.—The flood in the Murray River is one of the most severe on record. At Albury, the river is un 15ft…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ALBURY, Friday. — Indications to-night were that the flood crisis in the Albury district will have passed by morning. This evening…
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