Level Crossing Flood Light
The overhead floodlight, recently erected at the railway level crossing at Fairneld, was switched cn on Monday night, and revealed a wonaerlul improvement…
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Heavy Rain Along the Coast. Inland Areas Not Affected
Heavy, soaking rain fell in Sydney until about midday yesterday, but the disturbance which caused the downpour did not bring relief to the patched areas of the State. The…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →'Storm Maker' Roosevelt Blamed
Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Read, of Wahroonga, who returned to Sydney today by the Niagara, with their daughter, Miss M. M. Read, after a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Damage by Storm in City Telephones Out Of Order Lights, Also
SYDNEY received a thorough soaking yesterday, and the storm which preceded the damp and dreary day, threw telephone…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood Lighting. Legauty in Doubt
The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Spooner) was asked by a deputation from the Leichhardt and Petersham councils to amend the Local Government Act, to permit…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Floodlighting Legality of Council's Levy Queried
The Minister for Local Government, Mr. Spooner, will consult the Crown Solicitor regarding the legality of local councils levying a special rate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No More "Floods"
FOR some time past the A.J.C. has been worried on wet days about the miniature "flood" which seeps from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Violent Gales In Tasmam
WHAT was a nippy westerly in Sydney, was a howling gale on the high seas. So fierce was the blow that the Morlada will berth a day benhind…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gales in Tasman. Monowai's Deck Awash. Vessels' Rough Trips
With smashed porthole windows and salt encrusted upperworks, bearing witness to the severity of a gale, the liner Monowai reached Sydney yesterday from Wellington, after one…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"A Menace" Huge Seas On Coast Cyclone a Warning Ships Hit Island Fury
A "MENACE to shipping," was Mr. Mares's description of the huge seas running along the coast of New South…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Two Men Lost When Launch Sinks Cyclone Tragedy Onlookers Helpless Second Boat Mystery Wattamolla Wreckage
COMPLETELY at the mercy of the huge seas which pounded the coast in the vicinity of Norah Head, north of The Entrance, this afternoon, a large launch, with at least two men on board, sank and the occupants are believed to have been drowned. Their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dawn Search of Sea Three Men In Lost Launch Destroyer and R.A.F. PLANE Believed Drifting In Ocean Gale
INTENSE efforts will begin at dawn to-day to locate three men who left Gunnamatta Bay in a launch on Sunday morning for sea fishing and have not since been seen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seas at Newcastle. Unemployed Camp Flooded. Newcastle
Huge seas, which had been running along the coast at Newcastle throughout the day, reached their maximum shortly before 9 o'clock to-night, when waves broke on the outskirts…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood Threat to Houses From Burst Drain
SIX houses were threatened with flooding -- water in some cases seeping through floorboards -- when a retaining wall of a channel near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Storm at Sea Shipping Paralysed By Tasman Cyclone
THE big freighter, Nollington Court, damaged and making for Sydney; waves sweeping knee deep over the boat deck of the Mariposa; and the Tasman dotted with liners making little progress against phenomenal seas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclonic Gales. Several Lives Lost
Cyclonic gales and terrific seas have swept the coast of New South Wales during the past few days. Coastal and oversea shipping has-been held up and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Destroyer's Search During Heavy Gale
Plunging through great seas which were whipped by a fierce westerly gale into dangerously breaking combers, the destroyer Voyager yesterday carried out a gallant search…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →What The Storm Left
What the daylight revealed at Shearer's Baths, Balmoral, to-day, after the storm last night had wrecked the wooden fittings like matchwood…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Man and the Storm
The storm which passed along the New South Wales coasts is a reminder that, plan and build as he may, the forces, of Nature are stronger than man. In this contest, however, heroic Instances are again before us which…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Valiant Destroyer's Trip in Cyclone Launch Search
ONE of the most valiant efforts in the peace-time record of the Royal Australian Navy was the sea search for the missing…
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