Prevention of Floods. Mullumbimby
A proposal to construct two conerete tunnels 400 feet in length and estimated to cost £2,500, was consideird at a conference to be the most favourable scheme for preventing the…
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Holy City Retaken Troops Storm Its Gates Labyrinth Combed For Arabs Vault Refuge Jerusalem
The Old City of Jerusalem fell into the hands of British troops this morning after two hours of intermittent fighting with the Arab rebels…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Market Flooded With Bad Fruit And Vegetables Beans, Oranges Dumped Because Unsaleable
"BEANS, oranges, lemons, and grape-fruit unfit for human consumption are flooding the city markets. Licensed farm produce agents yesterday said that the quality was so bad that they would not even give them away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese Occupy Outer Canton Panic-Stricken Refugees Storm Rail Exits HONGKONG
PANIC-STRICKEN crowds stormed railway stations today as the Japanese entered outer Canton. Government officials blew up factories and public buildings…
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There's a patch of blue a-slant the gaping sky, For the stormy weather's breaking. And the eager sun is waking-- What a difference it is making for the pavements now are dry !…
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UNSETTLED weather can be expected today. There will be further rain and' thunder, the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said last night…
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BROKEN HILL is cut off from both Sydney and Adelaide by rail. The line from Sydney to Broken Hill is washed out in ten places…
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A good season now seems assured in New South Wales, because of the splendid rains which have fallen over the State in lhc pasl week…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Cyclone Has Gone Out to Sea Fine, Warm Days Now
The moderate cyclonic depression, which in the past few days has caused heavy rain over the whole State, has moved eastward and is now located over the Tasman Sea. Except for a lingering tendency to light showers…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Floodlit Funnels. Question of Danger. Court's Opinion Sought
The opinion of the Commonwealth Court of Marine Inquiry is sought, by the Director of Navigation on the question of floodlighting of funnels…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Floods Hold Up Trains
HEAVY falls of earth, as a result of torrential rains, yesterday blocked the railway line…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storms and Electricity. County Council Praised
"It speaks volumes for the high efficiency of the electricity undertaking" in this district that during the recent severe electric storm there were…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Floods in United States. Three Priests Drowned. Washington, October 4
At least three priests have lost their lives in the hurricane which ripped across the North Atlantic States in the U.S.A. Thousands of pounds worth of damage has…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storms Threaten Derby Racing MELBOURNE
The weather forecast for Derby Day is:-- "At first fine and warm, but cloud increasing from…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Goldmine "Salting" Charged: Storm At Police Inquiry Demanded
AN allegedly "salted" gold mine was the cause of a stormy shareholders' meeting yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Conscription In England Hinted "Peace Not for All Time: Arms Output 'At the Flood'" London
A HINT that national registration for defence purposes may lead to conscription, was given by Sir Thomas Inskip yesterday. The Minister for Co-ordination…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Bodyline" Storm Centre Passes Out Of Big Cricket; H. Larwood
HAROLD LARWOOD, centre of the 1932-1933 "bodyline" storm, has retired from firstclass cricket at the age of 33. Like Jack Gregory famous Australian fast…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Deluge of Cash in the Derby Punters Didn't Mind Laying the Odds on Nuffield Flemington
RING transactions this afternoon were brightened by the presence of several hitherto "unknown" cash punters, who slapped it on in rare style, especially in the Derby. Two of them—one a tall, well-dressed young man, minus any headgear, and the other an elderly gent, not so sartorially perfect—wagered almost recklessly in cash…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gale's Fury. Damage at Nyngan. Houses and Shops Unroofed. Nyngan
Roofs were torn from houses and sheds, and galvanised Iron was blown about like sheets of paper in a severe storm which caused damage amounting…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →November Rain Outlook Surveyed by Inigo Jones Summer Storms to Follow
CROHAMHURST OBSERVATORY, Oct. 26.—The October rain group was a little late, and, though November and December cyclically are dry, there is still a great mass of southern sunspot activity moving…
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