Crew's Ordeal in Wreck. Japanese Lugger. Disaster During Gale. Two Men Drowned. Darwin
Suffering from the last stages of exhaustion after struggling in the water for hours, the crew of a Japanese mother-ship which…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Floods & storms, 1937
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Buildings Razed by Fierce Cyclone Cooktown Menaced Homeless Driven Into Rain Radio Silent Brisbane
DOZENS of buildings have collapsed in Cooktown under a terrific anti-cycione, which is threatening the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Men Drowned in Wreck Pearling Vessel Overwhelmed In Gale £60,000 Loss Darwin
THE mother ship Tanyo Maru, of the Japanese pearling fleet, struck by a terrific squall is reported to have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclone Ravages Cooktown Homes Razed BRISBANE
A terrific cyclone has for days been tearing thruogh the old khost town of Cooktown, remains of a settlement which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Cyclone at Cooktown Strong Breeze, but No Damage BRISBANE
IF there has been a cyclone at Cooktown (as reported in yesterday's "Sun"), the Commonwealth Weather…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Snow Storms and Mines Action Films at Capitol
ENTOMBED miners and a snowbound couple in a strange country are shown on the Capitol bill in the films "Draegerman Courage" and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Strong Gales. Buildings Damaged at Cooktown. Radio Station Out of Action. BRISBANE
Considerable damage has been caused at Cooktown as a result of high winds which have prevailed since Tuesday. They reached almost tornado force on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Solar Eclipse. Sight at Sea. "Thought a Storm Was Coming."
Members of the crew of the British freighter Baxtergate, which reached Sydney from New York on Saturday, said that they saw the total exclipse of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Just Before the Storm Anniversary of Franco’s Revolt
Frank Pitcairn, famous correspondent of the London “Daily Worker” was in Catalonia in the period preceding the outbreak of Franco’s revolt. In the following vivid account he portrays the tense expectancy among the population who could sense, even…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spain’s Mighty Communist Party Masses Flood Ranks
Speaking in Madrid recently, Dolores Ibarruri (“La Pasionaria”) stated that Spanish Communists now numbered over 300,000. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Verdicts Against Council Flooding Of House At Turramurra
Verdicts for damages amounting to £61 14s, with £16 17s costs, were given against Kuring-gai Municipal Council by Mr. Stevenson, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →English Team at Brisbane Soccer Game Under Floodlights Test Aspect
THE English Soccer team left last night for Brisbane, where the second Test will be played next Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storms Hinder Putnam Quest Aboard The Lexington
WESTERN PACIFIC, Tuesday.--As the giant aircraft carrier Lexington enters the zone of search for Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam and her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glimpses of Country Life. Flood-Waters of the Darling—Bourke to Wilcannia
At this time of the year floods are always to be expected on the Darling, although, curiously enough, they often do not occur until weeks after the rains that caused the accumulation of water farther north have entirely disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hall Storm
BIL[?] GRUNSELL (Parkesbourne).—It happened on my fifth birthday. I had invited several of my playmates to come for a party. Daddy had gone to the station with a load…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Storm Damage in the Shire
The Sutherland Shire engineer (Mr. T. Thompson), reported at the last council meeting that the recent heavy rains had caused a great deal of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Flood
"LUCKY STAR" (Comboyns).—One evening I had to go to the post office, about [?] miles away, for some mad[?] for a sick member of the family When I left home the sky…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A Flood
UNA CUTLER (Telegraph Point.—About three years ago there was a very big flood. the worst I have ever experienced. The water corered almost every foot of our cow…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →N.Z. OPINION Wotan and Floodtide
SOME New Zealanders differ greatly from the V.A.T.C. and V.R.C. handicappers in their opinions of the relative merits of Floodtide and Wotan…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Properties Flooded
The Rockdale engineer (Mr. P. Caro) reported at the last council meeting that during the recent heavy rains lagoons had been formed in…
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