Storm Damage in Kuringgai Chase
The trustees of Kuring-gai Chase have reported that a subsidence of the causeway at Bobbin Head caused by the recent storm prevented through traffic between…
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Notes of the Week The Great Storm
THE Easter Season of 1927 will pass into local history as one of the stormiest and most disastrous that Sydney and the eastern coast of the State have ever experienced. Easter is, to many people,…
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At a public meeting convened by the Lord Mayor (Ald. Mostyn), in the vestibule of the Town Hall, yesterday, a fund was established for the relief of…
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South Australia gave the Duke and Duchess a typical Australian welcome to-day in glorious weather. During the three-mile procession to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Where to Motor Kuringai Chase Great Damage Through Storm Lovely Camden District Enjoyable Tours for Motorists
KURINGAI CHASE has suffered severely from the STORMS. To-day the damage is described. The advantages of Camden, if taken as a motor centre, are recorded, and suggested short trips given…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Garden "Be Prepared" Scouts'. Motto Good for Gardeners the Toll of the Storm and Lessons That Were Learned
EEW will remember more disastrous conditions in the garden during the Autumn than those of the last two weeks. The wind and rain came at a time when the beautiful blooms of chrysa[?] had almost reached the zenith of their glory, and gardeners were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thousand Lives in Peril in Raging Flood Marooned on Rafts and Trees Last Hope New Orleans Levee Blasted
Nearly 1000 people are marooned in Arkansas, as a result of the fierce Mississippi flood. They are in a perilous plight. Many are clinging to rafts and trees, or are huddled in barnlofts. Engineers at New Orleans have at last resorted to drastic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Can't Do It" But Lang Was Persuaded Unemployed Newcastle Flood Damage Newcastle
Cars carrying the Premier (Mr. Lang) and the official party that were escorted round the flood-affected areas to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Flood Damage in U.S.A. -- £40,000,000 Three Hundred Dead Over 250,000 Homeless Bloodshed Is Still Feared Memphis (U.s.a.)
Bloodshed is still feared in the Acadia district of Louisiana, which will be flooded when the levee is dynamited on Friday next. Many of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood's Toll. The Mississippi. Death and Ruin. Tremendous Damage. New York, April 28
While it is impossible to state definitely the toll of the Mississippi floods, competent observers declare that 300 dead have already been counted. This figure is expected to be…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Sky Before a Storm
Generally the day is hot, and overhead lies a wide stretch of blue sky. To-wards evening it becomes cool, and a wind begins to blow. If one were, to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How They Do It: Making a Movie Storm
YOU'VE often wondered, -as you sat in a darkened theatre watching the play of a terrific storm upon the screen just how they do it--how they…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →£10,000 Stares Man in Face After Storm Glen Innes
A wind storm, an uprooted tree, a passing prospector, the discovery of a £10,000 "show." In epitomised form, thus is tho story told of the origin of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State of the Roads Within Easy Motoring Distances Damage After the Storm
THE Touring Department of the N.R.M.A. in this week's bulletin, reports that an after-the-storm survey of the roads within easy motoring distance of Sydney shows that immense damage in the aggregate has been done by the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Jottings of a Lady About Town Those Side Creases—Where were those Parcels?—The Georgian Beauties—Erudite Robin Eakin—The Cockatoo and the Cyclone—Elinor Glyn and her Exercises
"THE other day we heard that our old friend, Elinor Glyn, whose purple literature were the shockers of our youth, has written yet another book…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Last Desperate Effort to Save New Orleans Hole Blown in Dyke 5000 Made Homeless Flood Victims' Sad Plight New Orleans, U.S.A.
In a last desperate effort to save the city from being overwhelmed by the continuously rising waters of the Mississippi, State engineers yesterday dynamited t1000 feet of the levee near Violet, (Louisiana), thus inundating the parishes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →POSTPONED Rockdale Land Sale Result of Storm
While postponements, as a general rule, are not the best advertisement for a land auction sale, yet there are times when circumstances that govern…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Appalling Disaster of Mississippi Floods Fate of New Orleans Peril Is Still Acute Levee Again Dynamited Refugee Centres Are Threatened 350 People Dead : 300,000 Homeless New Orleans
THE FLOODS, which hitherto have been tragic enough, have now assumed the proportions of an appalling disaster. The levee was blasted along a length of 1000 feet at Violet,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Californian Floods —- Drawing Davis Cup
CALIFORNIAN FLOODS—Considerable damage was caused by floods in California early in the year. The water so weakened the supports of this bridge that the Los Angeles Limited, a train which runs to Chicago at 63 mils an hour, crashed through. There were heavy casualties. BODIES OF GOODWILL FLYERS RETURN—The arrival in New York of the bodies of Captain C. F. Woolsey and Lieutenant J. W. Benton, the American airmen who were on a "Goodwill flight" through South America when their 'planes collided. The ship bearing their bodies…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →U.s. Floods Smallpox Adds to Horrors Appeal for Relief 150 Marooned People Snatched From Death
Now that smallpox has broken out in the refugee camps on the Mississippi, the American Red Cross Society is appealing for £2,000,000. The cutting of the levees has cased the situation at New…
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