A Cyclone
It has been very hot for some days, and now a strong wind is blowing. Whirlwinds are everywhere. Dust is flying here and there, tins rattling and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods & storms, 1927
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Heavy Rain, Tropical Wind, Forecast by Mr. Mares
Mr. Mares, State Meteorologist, predicts a heavy rainfall early this week, and soys it will be accompanied by winds of a tropical nature…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cloudburst Causes Floods in Newcastle: Big Business Firms Suffer NEWCASTLE
A cloudburst caused torrential rain in Newcastle early this morning. One inch of rain fell in less than the hour. Hunter-street shopkeepers vainly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Northern Floods Water Near Railways Farmers' Plight West Maitland
Although the flood gates in Wallis Creole, between East and West Maitland, have been open for a week, the flood water south of Maitland has not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Evading the Storms (British Official Wireless)
The party left the Croydon aerodrome at dawn on December 27, and 12 days after descended at Delhi at the scheduled minute. They could have…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm's Injunction Harvey, J., Goes Fishing Albury
The leader of the Opposition, Mr. T. R. Bavin, Mr. Justice Harvey, Brigadier-General Macarthur Onslow, Lieutenant Edward Leake, and Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Damage in Maitland District. West Maitland
Shire officers have made an inspection of the roads and bridges damaged by the recent floods in the Mount Vincent district, where 12 inches of rain fell in one day. Extensive damage was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →State Aid Needed Repair of Flooded Roads Councils' Appeal Minister May Take Action Cessnock
Stating that the burden was too much for Cessneck Council and Kearsley Shire to shoulder, a deputation has asked the Local…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Help for Flood Victims Cessnock's Activity Cessnock
A strong committee was formed to-night to raise funds to recompense as for [?]from in the district who had suffered from the recent disastrous food…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Flood Cost Cessnock
The Shire Engineer and an engineer of the Public Works Department today inspected the area affected by the recent flood, the object being to estimate approximately the amount of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Chinese Storm Powers Awakening Whose Turn Next?
The events at Hankow, where the Chinese Nationalists have taken over the British "Concession," and the generally disturbed state of affairs along the Yang-tse valley,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods at Terrigal
Heavy rain caused a great rise in Terrigal Lake, flooding roads and water-side camps. A narrow gutter was cut through the sand bar, and in a short time it washed out into a wide channel, which carried a rushing stream like a flooded river into the ocean. Within a few hours the lake was almost emptied. Several people who tried to swim the current were carried out into the surf…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →The Recent Maitland Flood
Here we see the overflow from the Hunter River rushing along McRae's Hollow, Bulwarra. The road was 15ft below the surface of the raging torrent…
Continued on Trove, page 41 →When the Bed Is Snug and the Drains in Flood
"Do you think it is a fair go for a ratepayer to have to crawl out of his snug bed at midnight, when it is raining like Old Harry, to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →After the Storm
The [?] if it was lessing a [?] of-a-few [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rumbling Cricket Storm Bursts with a Vengeance Fat Cheques for the Hospitals Surf Night Why Cronulla Won
At the gala night at the Prince Edward Theatre next Monday cheques totalling £20,000 will be handed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Ships Wrecked and Crews Drowned Norwegian Gales Oslo
HEAVY GALES are raging along the coast of Norway. Several ships are reported to have been wrecked and their crews…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victims of the Floods. Cessnock
There is an inclination on the part of many people who were in the flooded areas within the Kearsley Shire to criticise the council for their misfortunes. The Administrator…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Unjust Criticism of Councils by Flood Sufferers Administrator Hits Out Cessnock
"Unjust and unwarranted." By this statement the Administrator of Kearsley Shire to-day characterised the criticism of the council in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heat Wave 111deg. at Wilcannia Thunderstorms Likely
Considerable increases in temperature over inland parts of the State were recorded yesterday, indicating that the heat-wave over the southern…
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