Obituary Mr. R. W. Flood
Described as one of the most popular men in the union, Roy William Flood, tram conductor, who was killed when he fell from a tram at…
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Japanese Storm N.Z. Wool Auckland
AFTER having ret used to bid at Australian wool sales, Japanese buyers stormed the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Report on S.P. Bets Disturbs Govt. Fearful Of Storm In Parlt
MEMBERS of all parties are up in arms at the suggestion that the State Government will wait until after Parliament has gone into recess…
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The Premier (Mr. Stevens) on Saturday pressed the button which switched on the floodlights on some of the best-known beauty spots in the Blue Mountains. The picture at left shows how the lights accentuate the rugged beauty of Orphan Rock, and that on the right shows the Katoomba Falls, the waters of which were banked up for the occasion…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mollison Slowed Up By Sea Storms CAIRO
JAMES MOLLISON and his co-pilot, Corniglon Molinier, arrived here 18 hours after leaving Croydon, having flown the 2570 miles at an average of nearly 143 miles an hour. Appalling weather was…
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An unusual wind struck the town of Wilcannia yesterday afternoon, according to a repore received last night. The storm came up suddenly from the south-west, bringing…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →A Summer Storm
LOW in the west the setting sun Told that the day was nearly done. Into the air among the trees Sprang into life a playful breeze…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Launching in a Gale Orcades Ceremony Heard Here
As they sat in the lounge of the Orama last night on sultry summer evening. Sydney guests of the Orient Line heard a gale blowing at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Tower Struck by Lightning Fierce Storm Over Sydney
A SEVERE storm broke over the city this afternoon. Lightning struck the historic Holtermann tower above the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →New Zealand Storm. Pedestrian Killed. Wellington (N.z.)
Practically the whole of New Zealand for the past two days has been swept by a southerly storm, which reached its maximum force at Wellington this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Launched in Gale. New Orient Liner. Crash Into Jetty. London, Dec. 1
The new 24,000-ton Orient liner Orcadcs was launched at Barrow-in-Furness a few minutes before noon to-day in the face of a gale…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Unique Tides Cause Heavy Floods London
The highest tides for the past 40 or 50 years are reported in the Thames Estuary and on the East Coast…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.--More than 2000 subscriptions to the Commonwealth's £7,500,000 internal loan have already been received…
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OUR special representative with the R.A.S. wheat judging party reports heavy rain at Young, 147 points being registered by 3 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →League Sailing Yachtsmen Handle "Eighteens" Cliff Gale's Success
CLIFF GALE, one of the best known yachtsmen in N.S.W., won the N.S.W. League's handicap for yachtsmen sailed on Sunday. Gale secured…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Severe Storm. Lightning Strikes School Tower
Sydney experienced a sequence of four thunderstorms yesterday afternoon, but the first, which took place between 2.14 and 2.24 p.m., was the worst. The lightning was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Eight Drown in Storm London
The 36-tons Lowestoft trawler Girl Norah was caught in a storm this morning off the French coast and ran aground between Calais and…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Man Struck Dead Storm Fatality At Rooty Hill
Though David Harvey Gosden, about 60, of Dunsmore-road. Rooty Hill, was killed by lightning yesterday, his body was not found until…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →40,000 Bales--Record Wool Shipment Launching of Orcades In Gale
STACKING BALES of wool into the hold of the Thermopylae at Woolloomooloo. She will take away 40,000 bales, said to be the largest shipment ever to leave Australia. IN A CLOISTERED SETTING, students stroll at Sydney University during a brief interval in the examination sittings…
Continued on Trove, page 48 →Storm Beauty: Native Ritual: England's Air Might Photo News
LOOKING THROUGH the trees in the Botanic Gardens towards a block of flats in Macquarie Street yesterday when a thunderstorm broke over the city…
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