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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
315 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 16
SYDNEY: Thousands of carcases of drowned animals are floating down the Gwydir River on the subsiding flood waters, which have endangered Moree since Tuesday. It is feared that whole flocks of sheep perished at the height…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE: Queensland is having the best State-wide rain for years. Extensive flooding is expected in' many places…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Widespread damage has been exposed in Moree now that the floodwaters of the Mehi and the Gwydir rivers have receded. Although the rivers are running swiftly and are still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: With flood wreckage strewn for miles on either side of the Gwydir River, the Moree countryside today was a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE: Three trains are held up by floods at Hughenden and two divisions of the Townsville Mail arrived here tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →From-street, Moree, one of the mail thoroughfares, photographed at the height of the flood this week. Between 100 and 200 houses were flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SURGING flood waters overturned this locomotive at Hall's Greek, three and a half miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Meterologists are now able to "see" storms more than 100 miles away by means of radar equipment, operated on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The freak storm that swept Newcastle yesterday afternoon caused Department of Information cameramen who are making a color film of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Top: Corrugated iron blown into Hanbury-street when a storm unroofed Waratah Town Hall. Above left: Mr. and Mrs. Pat. Smith survey Portion of the wrecked roof, which struck their home and fell in their yard. Above right: The barber kept on shaving—Mr. Denis Hinchey and the wreckage which crashed against his do orway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Jan. 30. A.A.P.—The worst gale of the winter swept over London and most of England last night. It left behind a trail…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods in the North-west of the State prevented a number of pupils from filling their enrolments at the Newcastle Boys' High School for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Using a R.A.A.F. Transport Command air. craft, the Director-General of Land Transport (Sir Harold Clapp) this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Jan. 31. A.A.P.—An 18-hour silence followed two S.O.S. calls from the 7000-ton Cunard White Star vessel, La Salle Park, drifting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEW YORK, Jun. 31. A.A.P.—Army night fighters and Navy pilotless planes, gliders and balloons, and a compact network of ground…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Feb. 1. A.A.P.—A message from the 7000-ton Cunard White Star vessel, La Salle Park. reported helpless in a gale 500 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISBON, Feb. 3. A.A.P.—A violent local cyclone struck Vizela, in Northern Portugal. It lifted roofs off scores of factories and houses, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON. Monday. — The Scilly Isles have been practically isolated by the gales which have lashed the west coast of Britain for a week…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CAIRO, Monday: The Egyptian Senate was in an uproar last night when the Prime Minister (Nokrashy Pasha) made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Feb. 4. A.A.P.—Tossed by a 60 m.p.h. gale the crew of the submarine Universal struggled all night long to keep…
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