Sales Tax Estimated to Hit Sydney Buyers to Tune of £1,500,000 Smack! Tornado in Suburbs Roofs Fly Gale Brings Heavy Rain
A peculiar storm struck the southern metropolitan area this afternoon. While some suburbs were…
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Cyclone Strikes Bankstown Fierce Gusts Unroof Buildings Wires Down
A CYCLONE struck Bankstown about 3 p.m. to-day, and many premises in South Terrace, the principal…
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Although those in charge of the survey now being carried out will make no official statement, it is understood that there have been marked changes in the depth of the Hunter…
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The Swan River, which overflowed its banks a few days ago, and flooded low-lying ground at South Perth, Victoria Park, and Guildford, causing several people to vacate…
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DAMAGE to roads in Kearsley Shire by recent floods has been estimated by the engineer. Mr. Shine. at £11.407. The heaviest loss to main roads, it was…
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A Parramatta [?]e brigade officer was employed all day Monday with half a dozen assistants in clearing The Crescent, at Fairfield, prior to…
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Considerable damage was done in South Terrace, Bankstown, yesterday afternoon, by a cyclonic disturbance…
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This pile of iron shocks torn from the roofs of Bankstown Shops was collected after yesterday's destructives storm had subsided…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Damage to Property at Bankstown in Yesterday's Fierce Storm
Portion of a roof wrapped around a telegraph pole. In South Terrace, where roofing iron was torn off by the wind and blown into the street…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Flooded Pastures Grass Mixture Recommended by the Agrostologist
On country de[?] of pastures by the recent floods, the agrostologist of the N. S. W. Department of Agriculture (Mr. J. N. Whittet) recommends the sowing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storm Damages Rotorua
The N.Z. S.S. str. Rotorua, which, arrived at Auckland on Saturday last, experienced a severe cyclone, near Pitcairn Island, on July 4,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Thrills Ship's Plates Dented
Taking their lives in their hands. Chief Officer Morris and his men on the British motor ship Enton strove valiantly to save a ship's huge blower…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →For Safer Traffic Floodlight on Police at Busy Crossing
Traffic police at the intersection on New South Head Road and Ocean Street recently complained that at night, owing to bad lighting, they…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →The Third Test. Heavy Rain Falls at Leeds. Play Starts at 5.30. Several Damp Patches on Wicket. LONDON, July 14
Owing to heavy rain, which soaked the pitch, play in the third test at Leeds between Australia and England could not be resumed this morning. There was [?] overnight, but the damage was done mainly by the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shipping INTELLIGENCE & Weather Through Gales to Safe Haven Mahout and Enton Strike Heavy Weather
After fighting through gales in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, two freighters arrived yesterday in port. The steamer Mahout, from London,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Rain Holds Up Play in Test Before Tea Inspection of Wicket at 5 P.M. Deluge Swamps Ground at Headingley Pools of Water Under Wicket's Covers Australia's Prospects Headingley, Leeds
ON account of a deluge which swamped the ground just before nine o'clock this morning, play was not possible in the third Test. The Headingley ground was swamped; the outfield…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Defence Fenton on New Tariff Storm Breaks Gullett on Warpath
"There are worse pests than rabbits," remarked Mr. Parkhill, when the Minister for Customs (Mr. Fenton) was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Recent Floods at Taree
During the recent floods in the Manning River the flood waters at Taree came within 18 inches of the record of February of last year. At the Lower Manning the flood was within 11 inches of the record. The rain…
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WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--The Maitland Flood Relief Fund now stands at £2158411…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →How Weather Man Fights the Storm Kings
NEXT time you look at a weather map of the latest fore cast, stop and think of the work done by the staff of the Weather Bureau in computing these latest reports for your benefit Our photographer, who went to see the…
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