Trawler Forced Into Harbor By Gale
When a southerly gale hit the 284-ton trawler Maldanna off Norah Head yesterday afternoon the ship was forced to run before the wind and shelter in Newcastle Harbor…
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Floods & storms, 1950
987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 46 of 50
Main Roads Hard Hit by Floods
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Cost of restoring main roads damaged by floods and storms this year was not less than £1,200,000, according to an estimate in the report by the Department of Main Roads for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flooded Township Is Provisioned By Boat
SYDNEY: Isolated by floodwaters that have caused a number of families to be evacuated from their homes, the western town of Euabalong is receiving all provisions and mail by boat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain Spoils N.J.C. Meeting
Heavy rain spoilt today's Tattersall's race meeting at Broadmeadow and the crowd was far below expectations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sedgman Defies Gale To Defeat Larsen
BRISBANE.—In deplorable weather conditions, with the wind blowing a gale, Davis Cup star Frank bedgman played brilliantly to beat U.S. National champion Art Larsen 6—2, 6—4, 6—2 in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Freak Storm Batters Town In West
SYDNEY, Friday.—A freak storm tonight left a quarter mile wide trail of destruction at Mendooran, in Western N.S.W. Damage will run into many…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Robbed Township of Long-awaited Iron
SYDNEY.-Mendooran (population 500), 35 miles east of Gilgandra, has waited three years fur a load of corrugated iron. There were smiles in the town on Friday-1400 sheets of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wilcannia Faces More Floods
BROKEN HILL, Monday.—Wilcannia faces more flooding in the next few days. Since the Darling became…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Position Critical At Brewarrina
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The flood position at Brewarrina (population 1000) is critical. Brewarrina is in the North-west…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lower Hunter Seeks early Flood Grant
Lower Hunter Shire Council decided today to ask the Minister for Local Government to meet its president (Cr. T. McCarthy) and Cr. L. F. Monkley in Sydney next Wednesday to discuss the flood grant…
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STORM WARNING…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A storm to-night severely damaged practically every building in Wilcanina. Two people were injured and…
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SYDNEY: Huge hailstones smashed through roofs as though they were cardboard during a cyclone that lashed the far-west township of Wilcannia yesterday…
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SYDNEY: Wilcannia (population 2000), which was struck by a violent cyclone and rain storm on Thursday, is now hreatened by flood-waters from the Upper Darling River. Police Sergeant Sewell said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freak Storm Moving North-east
SYDNEY, Friday.—A freak storm which caused £50,000 damage to Wilcannia last night is moving to the north-east corner of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Upset Country Cricket
SYDNEY.—Floods and other difficulties have prevented Central West from sending a team to Sydney for this year's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cyclonic Storm Hit Gosford
GOSFORD. — Damage running into thousands of pounds was caused by a cyclonic storm which hit the Gosford district…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Casualties Of Storm Lightning Strikes Boy; Three Injured In Plane
Three people were injured in an airliner near Newcastle last night. A boy was injured by lightning in Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Formed Quickly
Wind gusts had reached gale force yesterday in a cyclonic system which generated off the coast quickly, Mr. Cyril Griffiths said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gales, Big Seas Likely Along Coast
The State Weather Bureau last night warned shipping in the Coff's Harbour-Newcastle area of gales and rough to high seas…
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