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Northern Rivers · Floods & storms
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BRISBANE, Monday.—As the flood waters in Queensland threaten to engulf great areas with possibly disastrous consequences, the Queensland Railway Department is rushing every available truck and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Tuesday: Reports sent to the Commissioner of Police by the pilot of a reconnaissance plane which flew over Home Hill today was to the effect that the water was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOWNSVILLE. Tesday: With inches of sil[?] and other flood deposits in their homes, many residents in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A flood warning was issued at 10 o'clock to-night by the State Weather Bureau. A spokesman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BRISBANE, Tuesday.—The pilot of the plane which flew over Home Hill this morning found the town under water and saw the occupants of houses clinging to the roof-tops waving excitedly. The township ot Ayr a few miles away suffered the same fate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Discontent among Labor rank and file members…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Wednesday: About 266 tons of corrugated galvanised, iron will be loaded at Newcastle this week for the flood areas in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?]VILLE, Thursday.—While floodwaters are receding from the inundated areas the civic authorities are finding ways and means to relieve distress. Townsville City Council to-day opened the fund for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Friday: Raymond McMaster (27), was electrocuted during a thunderstorm on the Gaspard Road, three miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday. — A warning of a cyclone raging between New Caledonia and Rockhampton has been wirelessed to the Japanese hell-ship Yoizuki by the R.A.N., but the signals have not been acknowledged by the captain of the destroyer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BRISBANE, Sunday. — It is estimated that the recent floods in Northern Queensland caused damage totalling £3 million. Loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stressing the urgency of a bridge over Culmaran Creek between Bonalbo and Mallanganee at Kyogle Shire Council meeting yesterday, Cr. W. R. Cooke said during flood periods the township of Bonalbo became completely isolated. The residents of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prices demanded by the Commonwealth Disposals Commission for boats sutiable for flood rescue work are so high…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LISMORE, Sunday: Torrential rain fell during a heavy storm in the mid-Richmond district this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Sunday: Heavy, rain caused flooding in several western district town night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ADELAIDE, Sunday.—A married couple and their daughter were marooned for several hours on the wrecked end of the jetty at Semaphore Beach, Adelaide, when a 60 m.p.h. gale struck South Australia on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Sunday: Five people were drowned in the floods in the western district of Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Monday: Seven people are believed to have lost their lives and others were endangered by floods which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Devastation and loss of life have accompanied the worst floods in the history of Western Victoria. This morning it was feared that the death roll might he much higher than the five…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Dramatic stories of the timely rescues from floods in western Victoria come to hand as communications…
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