Maitland Gale. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I was interested in the account of Maitland Bay, given in your issue of to-day, by Miss Byles. The night the S.S. Maitland was lost, on her way to Newcastle, was…
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In a Gale Like Drunken Sailor at the Turns
PUNTERS went in off the deep end with Headgale and they left their money with the tommies…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Vessels Survive Cyclone Fishing Launch Reports Their Safety
INNISFAIL, Saturday.--Three vessels believed to have been wrecked in the recent cyclone are safe. The Waikato, Parama, and Lotus have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Escaped Q'land Cyclone Brisbane
A message from Innisfail states that three luggers which were believed to have been lost in the cyclone a fortnight ago are safe, These…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mail Deluge May Reduce Crew Of Southern Cross AUCKLAND
So much Australian mail is offering for the flight of the Southern Cross, that the crew may be reduced for the Tasman crossing, which Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Storm Troops, Enraged, Tear Shirts Berlin
THE Government has decreed the suspension of imports of raw materials or half-finished goods until further notice. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Grant for Flood Repairs. Albury
The Government has made available £1000 to the Culcairn Shire Council, under the emergency relief scheme, to repair the damage done to the highways by floods. In some…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →League Storm Centre Newcastle May Break Away
NEWCASTLE Rugby League has decided not to affiliate with the newly-formed N.S.W. Country Rugby Football League, and threatens to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gales on Coast. 'Planes Delayed at Coff's Harbour. Coff's Harbour
Strong southerly gales have been experienced alone the coast since Monday morning, accompanied by heavy downpours of rain and rough seas…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Recent Floods in the Tully River, North Queensland
The picture on the left shows the debris caught on the bridge over the Tully River... The picture on the right is looking along the approach to the bridge, which was 8ft under water. The cargo steamer Poonbar aground in the Burnett River at Bundaberg, Queensland. The ship…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Storm Picture In the Bush
The storm crashed and roared about the house. Lightning crackled and thunder boomed. It shook the walls like a revengeful army; and the trees bowed down in surrender…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£120,000 Jetty Razed By Cyclone. PERTH
A wireless message from the State steamer. Minderoo, states that Onslow jetty has been completely destroyed by a cyclone. The jetty,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Beheaded Three Suffer for Death of Storm-trooper Dusseldorf
Three Communists have been beheaded here for killing a storm- trooper on June 6, 1933, during the course of an attack on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cyclone Razes Jetty Perth
COMPLETED ten years ago at a cost exceeding £120,000, the big jetty at Onslow, the north-west coast port for the pastoral arts, has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CYCLONE. Extensive Damage. Concrete Jetty Wrecked. Perth
A cyclone has unroofed or blown down 75 percent, of the houses in Onslow, a small town on the north-western coast of Western Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Houses Go Severe Cyclone on W.a. Coast
PERTH, Thursday.--In a cyclone on the north-west, coast, 20 miles of telegraph lines were blown down on either side of Onslow, and 75 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Land Flooded
A, Agute, of Victoria-street, Smithfield, reminded Fairfield Council, by letter, of the "absolute necessity", of improving the culvert in front of his block of land in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Fights Gale Waves Over Side; Cargo Shifts
BRISBANE, Friday.--For four days the Japanese steamer Tamon Maru battled through a sixty-mile-an-hour gale on the Queensland coast, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cyclone Zone No News of Mail Plane or Pearling Fleet
PERTH, Friday.--Because of broken telegraph lines there continues to be only, the vaguest news, from Onslow, in the far north-west, where a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Freighter Encounters 60-mile-an-hour Gale. BRISBANE
The Japanese freighter Tamon Maru reached Brisbane to-day after battling through a sixtymile-an-hour gale off the Queensland coast. Late last Sunday night waves 30 feet high…
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