Storm Cut Off Power
Boiler trouble at Zara-st. and flooding of the diesel power station at the State…
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Floods & storms, 1953
304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 16
Gale Strikes N.Z. Coast
WELLINGTON April 12. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The east coast of the South island of New Zealand was lashed by a gale…
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CAPE TOWN, April 13. A.A.P.—Hundreds of houses and other property were wrecked when a-hurricane struck…
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THE HAGUE, April 13. A.A.P.—High tides brought new floods to the Dutch coast to-day, and 1200 people in the…
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THE HAGUE, April 14 A.A.P.— The authorities on Schouwen-Duiveland Island Island are planning to sink a…
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LONDON, April 15.—Shakespeare's "Richard III" has been selected for Britain's first three-dimensional film…
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SYDNEY: The visit by an American Rugby League team to Australia could result in the biggest internal storm the game here has known. If the tour fails the…
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The Engineer (Mr. J. Watson) advised Cessnock Municipal Council last night to reconsider its decision to build a levee bank along Black Creek…
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Mr. Cyril Griffiths's forecast for Newcastle and the Coalfields for to-day is—Fine at first; warmer; north-west…
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LISBON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Sixteen were hurt in a crowd which panicked when a gale blew tiles and…
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PERTH, Tuesday. — Residents of Port Hedland have prepared themselves by battening down and securing their…
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PERTH, Wednesday. — A cyclone which struck the West Australian coast to-day caused only minor damage…
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A request for the base of the Memorial Flagpole in Civic Park to be permanently floodlit at night will be made…
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RIO DE JANIERO, April 23, A.A.P. — The Amazon river, in one of its worst floods for 30 years, has destroyed…
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A sudden thunderstorm in Newcastle yesterday disrupted traffic, drenched homebound workers and stranded shoppers. The storm climaxed an…
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Railway employees worked to torrential rain to repair damage caused by washaways to the permanent way near Awaba on Saturday night. Rail traffic was disorganised…
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Two hundered men were needed to repair more than half a mile of railway tracks damaged in the washaway between Awaba and Fassifern on Saturday. After gangs had worked all night and all day the lines…
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Damage amounting to thousands of pounds was caused by torrential rain in the Awaba-Blackalls area at the weekend. As a result of the…
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Farmers suffered extensive crop losses when floodwaters inundated 300 acres in the Louth Park-Dagworth district…
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NEW YORK, May 4. A.A.P. —Floodwaters covered a section of Southern Louisiana to-day, leaving two persons…
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