Deluge On Coast Causes Landslides Continuous Heavy Rain Has Caused More Than £2000 Damage to Roads in Byron Shire, Mullumbimby
The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 5
Shire employees are working at top pressure to clear roads of landalides. In the north-western areas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Parched Areas Drenched Mares Expects End of Long Drought Heavy Rain In North-West Now Extending South Catchment Benefits
The Sun · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 3
Heavy rain fell last night over the parched northwestern districts and is extending to the central western areas. "Further rains are expected, and there is every…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floodlighting Proposal Granville Scheme Deputation to Council
The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 12
The establishment of an underawning floodligthing scheme in the shopping centre of Granville is the main object of the Granvillle…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Leona Flood. Second Violin Recital
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 8
At her second recital in the Conservatorium Hall last night, Miss Leona Flood made a happier impression than she had done on the pievious Thursday. Once again, her approach…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Austrian Floods. Thirty Dead; 6,000 Lose Homes. Rescues by Motor Boat. Graz (Austria), May 24
The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 18
Thirty persons are dead and 6,000 are homeless as a result of the floods—the worst in Austrian history—which began in the provinces of Styria and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Floods Delay New Dam Work Brisbane
The Sun · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 3
Flood waters from the Stanley River topped the 12 feet diversion wall at the £2,000,000 Somerset dam construction works to-day, and swirled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Rain on Drought Weir
The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 7
In heavy rain, members of the Water Board yesterday inspected work on an emergency scheme to combat the four-year drought on the catchment area…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Peril of Floods in North Lismore
The Sun · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 1
After torrential rains in all parts of the catchment area, the Richmond River at Lismore is rising at an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Towns Are Cut Off by Floods Brisbane
The Sun · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 3
Racing floodwaters and landslides have isolated many Queensland coastal towns. Highways are submersed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Rain. Falls Extend South. Floods in North. Areas Isolated
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 13
The rain, which has been of such value to inland areas in the northern half of the State during the past few days, yesterday extended southward…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Residents Flee From Floods Heavy Damage In North
The Labor Daily · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 3
SEVERE floods have occurred on the North Coast. No loss of life has been reported, but residents and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Town Marooned: River Breaks Banks Residents Row to Safety in Flooded Street May Be Driven to Shelter in Top Stories Mullumbimby
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 2
THE entire population of Billinudgel, a small centre six miles from Mullumbimby, has been marooned, following the heaviest rains in the Brunswick River district for years…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Rain Needed In South
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 1
Light spattered rain fell yesterday in the Riverina, [?] west parts of the State. Heavy falls are needed to save stock,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Over Marriage Control Plan London
The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 1
A CURIOUS controversy has arisen over State control of marriages as proposed by Sir Farquhar Buzzard, Professor of Medicine at Oxford, and former president of the B.M.A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man and Son Swept to Death. Floods in Queensland. Brisbane
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 11
A farmer and his son were swept to their deaths by a raging torrent in Eudlo Creek, near Palmwoods, to-day, while trying to cross on horseback…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Lismore's Plight. in Grip of Flood. Homes Evacuated
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 11
Although the Richmond River was falling slowly last night, Lismore was isolated by flood and landslides, and about 30 families were still homeless…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Leona Flood
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 5
The programme for the third concert by Leona Flood, the American violinist, at the Conservatorium on Wednesday, June 1, at 8 p.m., is: Sonata in D Major (Haendel); Sarabande (Bach):…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dam to End Floods Brisbane River Scheme BRISBANE
The Sun · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 2
The Somerset Dam construction works, in the heart of a deep ravine in the Brisbane Ranges, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Danger Seems Past Rail Lines Still Submerged BRISBANE
The Sun · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 3
Indications now favor fine weather over most of the south-eastern areas. During the past 24 hours there were only scattered showers in those…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Waters Recede
The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 2
HEAVY rain in the north has ceased, and flood waters are receding…
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