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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
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MELBOURNE. — A cyclonic storm hit Melbourne and nearby areas with terrific force last night, unrooting or blowing away buildings, levelling trees, flooding wide areas and marooning traffic. At the height of the cyclone, which was accompanied by a cloudburst in one locality…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Late to-night the Weather Bureau issued a warning that 4in. and, in some places, 5in. of rain had fallen in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: The cool southerly change last night brought heavy rain to the North Coast. The Acting State Meteorologist…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood scenes from Melbourne. Above left: Result of a blocked drain at Windsor Railway Station. Trains still got through…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday—Floods in the metropolitan area are falling rapidly, although big stretches of country along the Yarra are still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Above: Sheet of water in the Merlynston district. Floods made roads impassable and marooned many people in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—The North Queensland coast, particularly between Cairns and Mackay, was lashed at the week-end by a 70-miles an hour cyclone, mountainous seas and torrential rain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE.—Worst floods in North Queensland's history are earning grave fears for the safety of the inhabitants of several towns. Every Police Magistrate has been empowered to spend…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BRISBANE, Monday.—The fate of the North Queensland town of Home Hill will be decided when floodwaters of the Burdekin River reach it, on the bend of the river. The cyclonic rain has caused the inundation of widespread areas, with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although a southerly change with showers is expected to-day, the cyclonic disturbance which has given Queensland its heaviest floods in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—An unbroken stretch of water from Alligator Creek Meatworks, 42 miles north of Home Hill, North Queensland, to where the land rises on the southern side of the Burdekin River is reported by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Floodwaters are subsiding in North Queensland, but large areas are still unindated. Damage to canefields may be heavy. A 30ft. motor-launch in which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Queensland flood scene, taken from a low-flying aeroplane, show the Home Hill sugar mill completely cut off by swirling flood waters. Home Hill township (4000 population) is now out or danger. Below is general view of Ayr, Queensland, where floods have caused much damage. The sugar mill is lower right, while in the top left of the picture is the swollen Burdekin River…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although the Queensland cyclone had moved out to sea and was hundreds of miles away east north-east of Newcastle, it was indirectly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →View of Home Hill township, Queensland, showing power station (centre) and half the town inundated by flooding of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.—Townsville City Council to-day opened a fund for the relief of distress caused by the floods with a donation of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Sunday.—Mr. Bevin, British Foreign Minister, has told the Greek Government to go ahead with the elections on March 31, though three Ministers have resigned and three more threaten to resign in protest. All six Ministers have demanded postponement of the elections because so many parties…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—It is estimated that recent floods in Northern Queensland caused damage totalling £3,000,00…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bitter political gales are blowing from the four corners of the earth. As after 1918, war has unloosed the shackles on men's minds. Their passions rise to fever pitch; their voices are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY.—After a mass meeting on the lawns adjoining the Botanical Gardens this morning, more than 40 bus and tram conductresses stormed Parliament House at midday and demanded to see the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan)…
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