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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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RIGHT: All that remained. The Methodist Church at Newrybar, wrecked by a storm last Friday. BELOW: Business as usual. Miss Elsie Farrell, the popular postmistress at Newrybar, carries on her duties At the rear of this building a chimney crashed between two trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GRAFTON, Sunday:—A terrific wind, hail and rain storm struck Graf ton at 3.30 p.m., causing extensive damage to the aerodrome,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BRISBANE, Sunday:—A heavy rain storm swept the city early tonight, 247 points being registered. The rain fell at the rate of just…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IN THE PATH OF THE STORM (Continued from Page 6.) traffic to pass…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A terrific wind, hail and rain storm struck Grafton at 3.30 p.m. to-day, causing extensive damage to buildings, uprooting trees and strewing the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Damage estimated at more than £10,000 was caused by a cyclonic storm, with wind of 90 miles on hour, which struck…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Discussing the damage done by the storm on Friday, the Electrical Engineer to Mullumbimby Council (Mr. D. C. McVea) said yesterday that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Monday:— Storms which struck the North Coast yesterday afternoon and last night were the worst experienced for over…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It is difficult to estimate the extent of the damage caused by the two storms which swept through Newrybar district last Friday. The first, between 3 and 4…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →While sitting around a table at their home at Mount Mellum, near Landsborough, during a terrific storm last night, a man and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crocodiles maddened by hunger are reported to be killing many cattle trapped in the Northern Territory. Station owners fear that thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →DARWIN, Monday:—During record floods which brought terror and destruction into the valleys of the Roper River and its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three people were killed and four were injured in storms which swept the south-east corner of Queensland on Sunday night. A gum tree 100ft high fell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →With the aid of a winch and strong steel hawsers, the building occupied by Mr. W. E. Selwood in Bailey Street Mullumbimby, was hauled back into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With the aid of a winch and strong steel hawsers the premises of Mr. W. E. Selwood in Dalley-street, Mullumbimby, were hauled back into correct…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Friday afternoon's storm, which levelled churches at Newrybar and Tintenbar, a school or two, and a couple of halls, besides unroofing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LAIDLEY, Friday:—Following one of the hottest days on record, with a maximum reading of 105 degrees, a storm with a wind of 60 miles an hour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday was the hottest day in living memory on the Tweed and probably as hot a day as has ever been experienced here. The shade reading at Murwillumbah reached 114…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FOR the fourth day since Thursday the North Coast sweltered yesterday. The maximum temperature at Lismore—110 degrees—was only three degrees below the heat on Friday last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →During the recent floods in the Roper River district, the wife of a station owner lived with the natives for three days. Her only food…
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