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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 50
BEACH DEBRIS: Timber washed down the Hunter River by the recent heavy rain is finding its way back on to the beaches. This morning Lance Tippins, a member of South Newcastle Surf Club, was engaged throwing the smaller pieces into a heap on Newcastle Beach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Residents of Warren to-day defeated the flood that had threatened their town for weeks. They sheltered behind the levee that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: Further Murrumbidgee River flooding is likely late this week, but the danger level has passed elsewhere in the State. No fresh reports of serious flooding have been received, but…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, April 10. A.A.P.—A sudden 92-m.p.h. gale struck the holiday town of Blackpool to-day, sweeping people off their feet,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GLADSTONE: A freak four-hour 45 m.p.h. gale placed the Sydney sloop Kyeema in a practically unbeatable position for a clean sweep of the Brisbane. Gladstone Yacht Race. In the four-hour blow the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The danger of further flooding in most parts of the State has passed but a new threat is expected this week to towns on the Murrumbidgee River…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: With an overnight fall in the level of the Murrumbidgee, the flood danger at Narrandera has receded. Narrandera police reported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NANTUCKET (Massachusetts). April 11. A.A.P.—Eighteen men from two fishing vessels are believed to have been drowned in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Thousands of residents in flood areas to-day began the huge task of cleaning up. The flooded rivers have fallen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Hay, on the Murrumbidgee River, is now the only town in N.S.W. in danger of further flooding, but it is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The population of Euabalong, 44 miles from Condoblin, to-day built a levee to stop a threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Auxiliary of the Peace Council had received "floods of offers" to accommodate the Dean of Canterbury (Dr. Hewlett Johnson), the Secretary (Mrs. Ryan) said last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE.—A Lincoln bomber from Amberley tomorrow will fly a ton of food to Fleetwood, Clare, North…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →RANGOON, April 13. A.A.P.—At least six people were killed and At least six people were killed and 100 injured when a cyclone swept…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →An overflow from Lake Cowell into the already flooded Lachlan River threatens Euabalong with the biggest flood in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In 1927, a modern Noah built a rude ark to save his followers in the Lower Mississippi flood. He was a negro pastor of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—Residents of Co[?]n township, in Cape York Peninsula, ignored a warning last night by aborigines of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Every time the tide rises at Telligherry Creek, inches of salt water cover a quarter of a mile of the Marsh-road to Bob's Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →If floodgates at the outlet of Wickham drain to Throsby Creek were maintained in working order the possibility of floodings in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY: More than three inches of rain in many suburbs last night flooded homes, washed fences away and stopped traffic. An 84-year-old deaf woman…
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