Trail of Ruin Pitiful Plight of Flood Victims
Leaving a tragic trail of homeless families, ruined crops, and drowned cattle, the cyclone has passed out to…
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Our Young Poets The Storm
The clouds were gathering last In the evening as the sun slid past. The night came on, and the sky grew black. And the rain came down on the old bush…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milk Rationed In Some Suburbs Supplies Held Up by N. Coast Flood South Coast Will Help Special Train Coming
The city's milk supplies will be seriously restricted until the train service to the North Coast and the Hunter district is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flooded Pits Useless for Future Work East Greta and Glen Ayr £40,000 Pay Lost Newcastle
GLEN AYR and East Greta pits have been rendered absolutely unworkable in future as a result of the flooding, and while…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Snake in a Flood Boat Newcastle
A FLOOD BOAT area from Hexham, while p[?] through the mangroves on theriver banks to reach a farm house at Ash Island, disturbed a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Peril Past: Rivers Normal Week-End Rainfall Confined To Coast Mr. Camm Hopeful
NORTHERN rivers have practically regained their normal levels, said the State…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Losses In Lower Hunter. Floods Recede. Petty Thieves at Work
Although light rain has fallen, there is no present danger of a renewal of floods. Latest reports from the centrai coastal rivers, which overflowed their banks last…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Transport by Boat in Maitland Streets During the Height of the Hunter Valley Floods
Passengers being transported to East Greta from West Maitland by boat. The West Maitland i-ilway station platform completely covered by water. A house at South Maitland almost completely submerged…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Through Floods a Woman's Adventures
HASTENING home from a country holiday in the Inverell district, to meet her husband, who arrived by the Aorangi last Friday,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Coastal Rain Misses Flooded Areas
"A shallow tropical disturbance without much energy to it." Thus, slightingly, did the Acting- Government Meteorologist (Mr. Camm)…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Milk O! Short Supplies Effect of Flood Most Suburbs Rationed
Milk is still being rationed in the suburbs, to-day's supplies in most districts being about 10 per cent, below normal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mines Ruined Never Be Worked Again Flood Receding West Maitland Wants Immediate Help Newcastle
Owing to flood damage, it will not be possible to work the Glen Ayr and East Greta mines any more. Although the two Ayr- field collieries escaped serious damage, they will he idle for some time…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Floods Hold Up the Butter Lean Winter Supplies Won't Be Better Until the Spring
Last week's supplies of butter, necessarily on the winter short side, were further embarrassingly curtailed by the Hunter, Manning and Hastings…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Five Mines Wrecked by Flood Grave Peril in Other Pits Ayrfield Danger Acute Huge Pressure Kurri
Five mines, two of which were previously abandoned, have been damaged irreparably by the Maitland floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Demon Leaves Maitland Gaunt and Desolate Ebbing Waters Reveal Chaos Many Homes Submerged Farms Covered by Six Feet of Mud Silt River Falling Slowly
MAITLAND, Sunday. JUST what destruction has been wrought by the flood demon at Maitland is being revealed as the waters slowly recede. While some farmlands that were under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Causes Reduction in Coal Output Newcastle
The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State, was 31,075 tons, all of which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plenty of Milk! Companies Overcome Threats of Floods
Sydney's milk supply is not likely to be jeopardised by the floods. The Dairy Farmers' Co-operative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Damage at College
Portion of a retaining wall at St. Aloysius College, North Sydney, collapsed yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storms and Solitude Across South Pacific Weirbank Overdue on Trip from Chile
With a full cargo of nitrates the motor ship Weirbank arrived yesterday afternoon, after a stormy voyage from Antofagasta…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →South Coast Floods WOLLONGONG
T[?] rain last night and early to-day flooded the low-lying flats, and several houses, were i[?] The road at Cabbage Tree Creek between…
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