Floodlights on Parliament Job Canberra
Floodlights have been installed to permit double shifts to be worked on extensions to Parliament House, so that these may be completed before…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Floods & storms, 1938
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Running Tap Caused Flood In Office Building
Water, inches deep, flooded half of Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pty. Ltd.'s building in Chalmers-street, to-day, 40 office workers were driven from their soaked offices and damage estimated at several hundred pounds was done…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood in City Store
A fireman empties an electric light bowl, which was filled when water dripped through the roof of the M.G.M. offices, Chalmers-street, city, to-day. His attitude suggests a seer with a crystal globe…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Thousands A Year To Influence Us Deluge Of Propaganda From Warring Nations
UNIMPORTANT as we may seem to ourselves in world adjustments, Australians are now coming increasingly within the reach, by wireless and literature, of the long arm of invisible foreign Governments…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Hits Japs. SHANGHAI, Friday. Our Own Cable Service
THE Japanese armies in Central China received a further blow to-day. The Yellow River dykes broke once…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Building Flooded
WATER from a tap which had been left running flooded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pty. Ltd.'s building in Chalmers Street, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Order For Cyclone Engines New York
The Curtiss Wright Corporation has announced that the Lockheed Corporation has ordered 400 Wright Cyclone engines identical in type with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sudden Storm. Vivid Lightning at Sydney. Hail Falls in Suburbs
Sydney experienced a brief period of unusual weather late yesterday, when, after a surprisingly mild and practically windless [?]ay, conditions became very…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Lugger's Fight Against Gales Perth
After a search had been made by air, land and sea, a 20-years-old lugger, containing two men, has been shghted to the leeward of a little…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm Cottage——a Winter Phantas[?]
THE cottage was old. It stood high on a peak of the rugged cliffs, its small windows and weatherbeaten door defying the blustering southerlies which leapt from the ocean below…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Advance by Rebels. Towns Taken. Storm of Shells. Threat to Sagunto. LONDON, July l8
General Franco's big drive down the Mediterranean coast of Spain is being continued, according to reports from Saragossa, which are partly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Anzac Memorial. Floodlighting Proposal Rejected. Council Committee's Decision
The health committee of the City Council decided yesterday not to recommend the council to pay for current that would be consumed by the floodlighting of the Anzac…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Won't Pay for Floodlighting
THE health committee decided yesterday that the City Council should not undertake the cost of floodlighting the Anzac Memorial in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ketch Forced Back by Storms
AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--Terrific storms forced a young Polish engineer, Erwin Weber, to abandon a voyage to Tonga in a 21-ft. ketch-rigged yacht…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crops Destroyed by Storm. Calgary, July 19
Under the scorching sun of central Alberta farmers are surveying crops which have been mined by a disastrous hall-laden electrical storm…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Luggers Battle with Storm Two Men's Lives in Danger Perth
THE lives of two men in a lugger, who have been fighting a storm since last night, are still in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Floodlighting Granville Shops Council's Powers Town Clerk's Report
The engineer of the Parramatta and Granville Electric Supply Co., Ltd., has stated that he would be willing to recommend the company…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Floods in China
MAN-POWER FOR TRAMS AND CARS in Shanghai floods. Thousands of lives were lost last month when flood waters inundated the Chinese war areas. Picture shows flood scene in Avenue Road, International Settlement, Shanghai…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hawkesbury Floods. An Interesting Record
Fewer floods occur on the Hawkesbury River nowadays, partly owing to the storages of Sydney's water supply claiming the first instalments of any surplus flow. Previous to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Water Bd. Flood at Sydenham
BETWEEN 30,100 and 50,000 gallons of water ran to waste down a drain in Sydenham early to-day. A 12-inch main at the corner of…
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