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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 16
SYDNEY: Although the weather has cleared over Albury there is still danger of melting snow causing a further rise in the Murray River. Reports today state that the Murray at Albury was more than two feet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, July 28.—One of the worst recorded storms swept over England and Wales on Friday night Accompanied by heavy rain and hail,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wading to work, one of these girls in the Murray River area wore a bathing costume. A strip of country three miles wide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soil conservation, rather than dams, would provide the greatest flood mitigation on the Hunter River and its tributaries, according to a letter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ISTANBUL, Tuesday.—Three hundred are feared dead, 500 injured, and thousands homeless in floods following torrential rain in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, July 31. A.A.P.—Three hundred persons are feared to be dead, 500 injured, and thousands homeless as the result of floods…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA: A storm raged around the head of Minister for Information (Mr. Calwell) in the House of Representatives today after he had tried to defend his department's booklets for prospective immigrants, in which the figures have been described as "Utopian." After Mr. Calwell and Dame Enid…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Friday: The British Cabinet meeting yesterday, which Mr. Attlee flew to from Paris, discussed surrender of the British mandate in Palestine as a serious possibility, says the political correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Friday. — Catalina flying-boats made a contour survey of flooded red gum forests in the Murray River…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HOBART, Sunday. — Only two of eight horses. consigned from Melbourne to Launces on survived when the steamer Laranah was lashed by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Ships' passengers approaching Melbourne experienced a rough passage when gases, some reaching a force of 100…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →July was the windiest month of the 15 years for which Mr. Cyril Griffiths' records and memory of Newcastle serve. August is maintaining the record. It has blown almost every day, usually from the west, since June 30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PARIS, August 16. A.A.P.—Russian delegates produced the makings of a new fight between the Western and Eastern Powers at the Paris Conference to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CAIRO, Aug. 16. A.A.P.—Warnings that the Nile was approaching record levels sent Egyptians crowding into mosques…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seventy-five per cent. of the sheep in the More district would die unless there was quick transport of fodder, said Mr. A. Lee, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The water police came, to the assistance of small craft which were in difficulties when a 50-mile-an-hour westerly wind…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Aug. 18. A.A.P.—Farmers in East Anglia, one of England's great cercal growing areas. suffered the worst blow of the season when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →KHARTOUM, Sunday.—The Blue Nile, rising to a height of 50 feet, submerged the village of Gerief, four miles from Khartoum…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY: Freezing weather in southern New South Wales yesterday and today has checked the danger of flooding from rivers swollen by thawing snow. THE Murray, Murrumbidgee and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Further floodings on the upper reaches of the Murray, Murrumbidgee, Tumut, and Snowy Rivers are expected at the…
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