Forged Way in Gale Fokker's Battle in Search Old Bar
BRAVING a 40-mile gale, " a Fokker search 'plane forged its way through blinding rain to Old Bar this…
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Brisbane-sydney Air-liner Vanishes Feared Lost In Cyclone With Five Passengers And Two Pilots Only Hope Is Landing in a Remote Spot
WITH four passengers and two pilots, the Stinson airliner VHUHH vanished yesterday between Brisbane and Sydney. It left Brisbane at 1.15 p.m., and almost immediately flew into cyclonic weather…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Missing in Inter-city Air Liner Met Cyclone On Way From Brisbane Last Seen at Gladstone May Have Landed On Beach Planes to Search
WITH five male passengers and two pilots aboard, an Air-lines of Australia tri-motored Stinson monoplane, while flying from Brisbane to Sydney over an area swept by a cyclonic…
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Sea Power, actual and national--H.M.A.S. Australia, which left port yesterday, thrusting her powerful hull through mighty seas which arose after the cyclone…
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SEARCH pilots who flew from Brisbane down the North Coast of N.S.W., told stories on their return of driving rain and thick weather through which at times it was impossible to see more than 200 yards!…
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Heavy easterly [?]as, effects of the cyclone, rolled along the rooks and beaches of New South Wales yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Northwind Blew at Gale Force (From "Truth's" Special Commissioner) CAULFIELD
IT'S an ill wind that blows nobody good. Yesterday a blasting hot Northwind blew through Melbourne, but…
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The water overseer (Mr. Saker), in a report to Lithgow Municipal Council, stated that recent storms had done considerable damage to the spillway on No. 1 weir at Middle River…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cyclone Holds Up Ships Call At Lord Howe Missed
The effects of the cyclone are apparent on shipping. Originally expected at Sydney today, the Dutch steamer van Rees has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Taiping in 90 m.p.h. Gale: Three Hurt
BRISBANE, Sunday.--After having been buffeted for two days by a 90 m.p.h. gale, the steamer Taiping berthed in Brisbane River today, two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone. on North Coast. Jetty Wrecked at Woolgoolga. Liner Battered
A cyclone which raged off the north coast of New South Wales on Friday and Saturday left a trail of destruction…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Killed by Car During Storm Former International Cricketer Melbourne
FORMER international cricketer William Carkeeke, 56, of Davey Street, Brighton, was fatally injured when struck by a car during a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Japanese Hail a Hero Skipper In Storm Saves 17. TOKIO
Tameo Hata, the 39-year-old skipper of the 228-ton fishing boat Taisci Maru, is hailed in Japan as a national hero, following a dramatic…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Ten 'Planes Renew Quest for Airliner Considered Clear of Cyclone Area Disappearance Makes Radio Guidance Imperative, Pilots Say New System May Be Installed
TEN 'planes, including five Air Force machines and Miss Jean Batten's craft, were away at dawn to-day to continue the search for the missing Stinson airliner and its seven occupants. Strong wind and bumpy conditions were encountered. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shipping Hampered Cyclone Delays Many Vessels
Shipping was considerably hampered during the week-end by the cyclone off the coast of Queensland and north coast of New South Wales…
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Some aviators now think that the missing aircraft struck the sea between Coff's Harbour and Tuncurry, where the weather was most severe on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wareatea Damaged Fights Gale In Bass Strait
The small Bass Strait steamer Wareatea, owned by Wm. Holyman & Son Pty., Ltd., was subjected to a severe battering while crossing the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Battered by Cyclone Wanganella Trip A Stormy One
The Huddart Parker liner. Wanganella which arrived at Sydney to-day from Wellington, was battered by the Tasman cyclone…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Big Storm at Evans Head Casino
Pounded by mountainous seas, the Surf Club's new pavilion and dressing sheds at Evans Head narrowly escaped destruction at the week-end…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Calls by Radio Got No Reply Other Stinson in Cyclone
REPEATED calls for wireless aid from the north-bound radio-equipped Stinson plane last Friday afternoon were…
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