Storms and Floods. Widespread Damage; Lives Lost
TORRENTIAL rain, lightning, hail and wind caused widespread damage in the three eastern States last week-end. Several lives were lost, and heavy floods…
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Flood Menace Less As Rivers Fall Deluge at Eden: Danger to Shipping
THERE is no danger of flood from Burrinjuck Dam unless further rain falls, stated Mr. Hugh Main, M.L.A., Chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland Tropical Cyclone Season. Arrangements to Assist Shipping
Special arrangements have been made to give warning to shipping and other interests of the approach of tropical disturbances to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flight May Be Delayed Cyclone Over the Tasman
UNLESS the cyclonic disturbance over the Tasman Sea ahates within the next 24 hours, it is extremely unlikely that Sir Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Peril at Narrandera RODE 100 Mile's in Darkness Epic Of Victorian Storm Town in Peril
AN epic of the Victorian floods was provided when Mr. J. Birkett, 30, assistant at the Orbost Post Office, rode 100 miles through…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bodies Not Yet Found Another Storm at Moruya
According to late reports from Urana and Moruya last night police and civilian searchers had not succeeded in recevering the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Smithy" Ready But Weather Causes Delay Storm in Tasman Story For "The Sun"
OWING to cyclonic weather over the Tasman, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith has definitely postponed his flight to New…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Flooded South. Grave Position in Orbost District. £500,000 DAMAGE. Waters Subsiding in New South Wales
The flood at Orbost (Victoria) and the surrounding district, where the Snowy River has overflowed its banks, has assumed grave proportions. Police at Orbost yesterday issued a warning to all residents of the flooded area to evacuate their homes, as a further rise in the Snowy River was expected…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Picturegram of Bridge Across Snowy River Broken by Flood Waters
The large bridge across the Snowy River near Orbost, Victoria, was cut in two by flood waters and debris. The flood damage in this district is estimated at £500,000. This photograph was forwarded from Melbourne by picturegram last night…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Flood Delays Canberra Officials Held Up CANBERRA
High officials who have been delayed by the recent floods are Mr. D. T. Crutchley, British representative in Australia, Mr. G. S. Knowles,…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Wall Of Advancing Water Wagga Waits for River Rise Town Expects Flood But Is Not Alarmed WAGGA
WAGGA expects a wall of water to come down the river to-night, or early to-morrow morning. This will flood low-lying areas, probably forcing many unemployed, who have built dwellings on the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Viaduct Becomes Flood Bridge
The extent of the floods around Orbost, Victoria, can he gauged by this aerial picture showing the viaduct leading to the railway station. The Snowy River burst its banks and spread across the flats of East Gippsland, completely isolating the town of Orbost. Forty houses were flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →City Swelters; Country Flooded
DESPITE the fact that flood rains have fallen in many parts of the State in the past few days, those…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mile of Flood Debris in Ocean
ENORMOUS quantities of debris and wreckage, together with hundreds of valuable logs, have been carried…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Floods Feared: Havoc at Orbost
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Further floods are feared at Orbost following a report that 16 inches of rain has fallen over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Wreck
WHEN this touring car broke down between Bateman's Bay and Milton passengers remained huddled inside for five hours as their only…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Fury
THE FURY of the Moggill (Queensland) storm may be gauged by this picture of ruin on Mr. H. Westa[?]cote's farm. The cart, seen in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Southerly Gales Over The Tasman
The Weather Bureau today issued the following warning to shipping:-- Strong southerly winds to gales and rough to nigh seas over the western…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Kyogle Storm Havoc
A heap of Wreckage-- all that remained of a bridge after the Violent storm which swept the Kyogle district…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Cyclone in Path of Tasman Flight
SIR Charles Kingsford Smith may not now take off for New Zealand until Saturday as cyclonic conditions over the…
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