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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
311 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 16
The Weather Bureau in Sydney today reported that flood dangers were abating. However showers are expected today on the tablelands and slopes, chiefly in the central and southern sections, with isolated showers on the coast The Richmond River is still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: A 40 mile an hour gale struck the main street on the film location of "Eureka Stockade" at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Shakespearian scholars are expected to raise a respectful storm at Sir Laurence Olivier's direction of the £275,000 British film of "Hamlet." Olivier, who also plays Hamlet in the film, has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police at Orange to-day recovered the body of Norman Cassidy, drowned last night in floodwaters. Although warned by friends…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A fire engine, pumping 1000 gallons of water a minute, was used yesterday to pump out 500,000 gallons which flooded the deep…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, May 5. A.A.P.—The film version of "Hamlet" is expected to raise a storm among Shakespearian scholats…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Floods prevented 14 delegates from attending the Country Women's Association annual conference, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At 5.30 p.m. yesterday a truck forged its way through slowly subsiding floods to reach the township of Yarramalong, 11 miles west of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While stockowners in the north-west and central west Queensland are selling thousands of sheep and cattle to avoid drought losses,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON, May 12.—With her single screw jammed by a steel hawser, the motorship Port Waikato (675 tons) is drifting…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The breakage of tiles from India was generally very small, and the standard satisfactory, said the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AUCKLAND, N.Z., May 14.—Gisborne, principal east coast city of the North Island, has been isolated by the worst floods in many years. A 22-year old farmhand was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AUCKLAND, Sunday.—When flood waters receded they reveald the utmost desolation on the Gisbourne flats, vast tracts of which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Aircraft and shipping service. across Bass Strait have been disrupted by a freak storm. It caused blizzards, dust storms and hurricanes in the strait. As 80 mile-an-hour winds whip…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: Plunged into darkness when electricity wires collapsed, 100 patients of Bodington, the Red Cross T.B. Sanitorium, at Wentworth Fads, spent a night of terror last night as a 70-m.p.h. wind uprooted pine trees, blew open windows and doors and filled the sanitorium with sand and debris…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE: East Gippsland faces the danger of another flooding today, the Latrobe, Thompson and MacAllister Rivers running over their banks as the result of over two inches of rain in these areas in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →HOBART, Friday.—The worst flood tor 50 years has caused thousands of pounds damage and has ruined a large proportion of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →HOBART.—Well-known grazier of Jndbury, Mr. W. Wallis, is feared drowned in flood waters which have covered hundreds of acres of his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gales in Bass Strait should moderate to-day, Melbourne Weather Bureau said last night. Gales over Victoria and New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: The British steamer Inchwells (5100 tons) has arrived at Sydney with her hull leaking and the engine-room damaged by a 10-day battering in the Tasman, in an effort t o get from Wellington to Melbourne. The Inchwells struggled into…
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