Gale Wrecks Sailing Boats "No Race" Decision Worst Blow Yet Experienced
ONE of the worst winds in the history of Sydney sailing swept the Harbor yesterday, and resulted in the…
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Turned Back R.A.A.F. Planes In Storm
TAMWORTH, Monday.--Late yesterday afternoon, three R.A.A.F. Hawker Demon planes, which had participated in the aerial pageant at…
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IF the launch Mystery Star encountered such weather as H.M.A.S. Waterhen ran through last night and to-day in her search for it, hope of the small craft surviving on its journey from Lord Howe Island,…
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SYDNEY HARBOR presented a remarkable sight yesterday, when many craft were capsized and others were forced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waterhen Returning. Severe Gale Reported. (By radio.—From our special correspondent in H.M.A.S. Waterhen.)
H.M.A.S., WATERHEN, AT SEA, Sunday. After travelling nearly 1200 miles on the Tasman Sea in an unsuccessful search for the missing skiff, Mystery Star, the Waterhen…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Twelve Dead in Swift Tragedy Launch Founders In Squall On Hawkesbury Bodies of Six Found; 2 Men Saved Survivor Tells Of Fight With Storm Wave Like Giant Hand
THROWN suddenly into the water when their launch foundered, 12 persons are believed to have been drowned in the Hawkesbury River at Brooklyn, in a sudden squall shortly after 6 p.m. yesterday. Six bodies have been recovered and parties are…
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The Burwood Bowling Club is equipping its rinks for night play. She 1500-watt lamps in Duoflex (Benjamin) flood lights are being…
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BRISBANE, Monday. -- Although it lasted only 60 seconds, a cyclonic gale at Toowoomba caused extensive damage…
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CANBERRA, Monday. -- More than 4,000,000 copies of the Referendum pamphlets, to be issued through the Electoral Department, will be posted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Missing Skiff. Hopes Fading. Tasman Storms. Air Search to Continue
Because of the violent weather over the Tasman Sea, there is now very little hope for the safety of Brian Abbot and Leslie Hay Simpson, the…
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THOUGH it lasted only about 60 seconds a cyclonic gale at Toowoomba caused extensive damage The seed grading-shed of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Twelve Drowned. Hawkesbury River Tragedy. Launch Founders in Gale. Survivors Tell of Nightmare Swim to Shore. Six Bodies Not Yet Recovered
Twelve members of a party of 14 were drowned in the Hawkesbury River on Sunday night when the 18-foot launch in which they were returning from a week-end holiday foundered in a gale…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Twelve Drowned: Survivor's Grim Story "Each Tried in Vain to Save His Wife or His Friends" Launch Swamped By Sudden Gale: Ghastly Daybreak Discovery
THE dreadful experience of seeing 12 of their friends and relatives struggling together till they drowned in the waves that sank their 16ft. launch on the Hawkesbury River on Sunday night was described yesterday by Norman Jones, one of the two survivors of a party of 14…
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A narrow-gauge train, with five carriages, was derailed at Rugen, as the result of a gale. Seven people were injured…
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A hurricane is sweeping over the north coast of Germany, and mountainous seas are pounding Heligoland, the Lower Elbe, and the Schleswig coast…
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NOT one boat managed to complete the course in the N.S.W. League 18ft handicap or in the Balmain 10ft Dinghy Club's handicaps, which were sailed on Sydney Harbor on Sunday, October 18. The fleets were overtaken by a west-south-west gale during the final stages of the race. The…
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IT it be fault of the Government that, that the soldier setters the submerged Country at make Urana have not…
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GREEK SHEPHERD proved himself the outstanding three-year- old in the Dominion last season, and it is a pity he is not standing up…
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Numerous residents who happen to travel by road through Brighton-le-Sands at night time, to or from the city, have been somewhat puzzled of…
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THE Japanese trade situation, which causcd acr[?]monious discussion in the Federal Parliament last week, was responsible for…
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