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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
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SYDNEY: Hailstones almost of egg-size battered stands and enclosures before the High weight Handicap at Randwick this afternoon forcing horses back to their stalls and the crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Sydney's worst hailstorm on record caused about £500,000 worth of damage and injured at least 165 people this afternoon. Over an area of 15 by 12 miles in the eastern metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AMBULANCES KEPT BUSY: Casualties in Sydney's freak hail storm yesterday afternoon are shown being assisted into St. Vincent's Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: The fierce hailstorm that lashed Sydney yesterday afternoon caused damage estimated at move than £l,000,000. Rough surveys indicate that at least 500,000 panes of glass were shattered in the windows of factories,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →HOBART, Thursday.—The Sydney cutter Christina was driven through the storm in Bass Strait to win the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Hamilton Knight) to-day suggested a diversion from ordinary home building…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →GRAFTON: When a 70 m.p.h. gale hit Maclean, in the Lower Clarence River region, yesterday afternoon, the Presbyterian Church was lifted completely off its foundations. THE building will have to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GRAFTON, Friday.—An 80-milean-hour gale to-day damaged several houses in Grafton and South Grafton, ripped branches from jacaranda…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The sudden demand for tiles to repair damage caused by Wednesday's storm has resulted in blackmarketing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Cyril Griffiths's forecast for Newcastle, the Coalfields and the Upper Hunter to-day is: Fine and hot inland, mainly fine and warmer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle and district escaped serious damage in last night's electric storm, but in some cases roofs were damaged and fences blown down. Picture shows Mr. Harold Dempsey repairing the roof of his home in Douglas Street, Stockton, this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: Housewives, hit by two freak storms within a week, are desperately seeking materials to repair damage, which is now much greater than the £1,000.000 estimated after New Year Day's hail '"blitz."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NANKING, Jan. 6. A.A.P.—The inundation of vast stretches of Communist territory, inhabited by hundreds of thousands of people, is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The severe storm last night has caused the rush on tiles and other materials for repairing damaged buildings to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →GOONDIWINDI, Tuesday.—Unable to land at Charleville owing to a heavy dust storm, a Royal Netherlands Naval Air Force Dakota plane…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Weather Bureau forecast for the Hastings, Hunter and Manning is—Scattered thunderstorms later in the day, fine the remainder. Warm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: The Weather Bureau anticipates thunderstorms this afternoon and evening in Sydney and Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LISMORE, Friday.—One hundred and fifty-nine points of rain fell in half an hour at Lismore this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ADELAIDE, Monday.—Caught by the tail end of a south-easterly while east of King Island, the South Australian yacht Seevogel was given a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Tuesday: Atlantic gales, which have dislocated shipping, grew worse today…
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