Storm Brings Wall Down
This brick wall and portion of a house in Glenmore-road, Paddington, failed to withstand one of the strongest gusts, which also dislodged countless tiles and razed fences in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods & storms, 1938
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Sydney Is Isolated Wires Down In Gale
More than 75 per cent. of Sydney's telephone and telegraph communications to the rept of the continent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gale Ruin Litters Pt. Kembla Port Kembla
Lashed by a 60-miles-an-hour gale, which razed a brick building, blew in the sides of a 2000-ton steel oil tank,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle's Wreckage Worst Gale For Years NEWCASTLE
The fiercest westerly gale for years brought destruction in Newcastle district to-day. It unroofed houses, blew down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lindo Beaten. Melbourne Tennis Gale Affects Play. Melbourne
Play in the Victorian lawn tennis championships began at Kooyong to-day in gales and duststorms. There were no major upsets, but one or two eliminations, which…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Three Centuries in Grade Cricket Batsmen Defy Cyclone; Flay Bowling
Defying the conditions, batsmen in the grade competition had a field day to-day. Up to 4.45 p.m. three centuries had been scored. For Balmain, Cheetham reached his 100 in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gale Sweeps Victoria. Hurricane Force. Man Killed by Tree. MELBOURNE
Gales, which at times reached hurricane force, swept Victoria this afternoon, killing a young man, injuring a number of men and women, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Our Daily Feature Strips and Stories Jim Gale (New All-Australian Story Strip)
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fierce Gale's Havoc In Victoria State Cut Off From Continent Drover Killed By Falling Tree MELBOURNE
Cutting a swathe 400 miles wide across Victoria, a fierce gale today did damage unofficially estimated at £30,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gale Mars Centenary Match the Rest Lose 4-151; Light Appeal Upheld Barnes Always Confident Against Spin Attack MELBOURNE
UNDER unpleasant conditions, the first day of a match which promised to be full of interest, ended abruptly at 3.44 p.m. today owing to bad visibility. It was the M.C.C. centenary match between the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Ministers Rebuked During Scenes In House Attempt to Stifle Debate Raises Storm Govt. Defeat Threatened: Members Resentful
A sharp rebuke to the Minister of Justice (Mr. Martin) and other Ministers by the acting-chairman of committees (Mr. Bate) climaxed angry scenes in Parliament yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone's Force At Lindfield
Smashed roofs and walls dislocated business in the peak hour of Saturday shopping when the cyclone hit Lindfield's business centre…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Casualties Balmain
MRS. CUNNINGHAM, aged 48, living in Johnson-street, Balmain, was struck by a plank, and her left leg hurt. Taken to Balmain Hospital for…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →More Storm Pictures
GRABBED BY ROCKS above and below as in a vice. The ill-fated Alice, famous yacht, almost a total wreck on the shore of Rose Bay. Her great mast was about the only part of the boat which did not suffer damage…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Damage in Path of City Cyclone
Magnificent photograph taken on the foreshores of Rose Bay during height of the cyclone Flattened like a pack of cards, the Sunday School Hall at Brookvale was a scene of desolation after the hurricane. Hoardings flew into the air like kites when the storm hit Cremorne…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steamer Delayed by Gale Launceston
Twenty-three hours out from Melbourne on a trip that normally takes 16, the Bass Strait steamer Taroona, has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Other Details of Storm Damage
street: Balmain Town Hall tower damaged and collapse threatened. Roof of neighboring building crashed into Mentholyptus Pty. Ltd.. Forest…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →The Storm's Trail of Damage
MUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE to shops on Pacific Highway, Lindfield. Wreckage was strewn all over the roadway and huge pieces of palvanised iron were blown hundreds of yards like pieces of paper. ALL THAT REMAINED of this three-storey factory in Botany-road, Redfern. The place collapsed like a pack of cards. TELEGRAPH LINESMEN WERE SOON ON THE JOB when the storm broke. This picture gives some idea of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Golfers Had More to Beat Than Par! Jim Ferrier Through Test In The Gale
So difficult was the gale at Manly yesterday that several of the early starting pairs in the Open Foursomes had to abandon the game half way through. Many good players scratched…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Sailing Only Three 18's Left in When Race Stops Yendys Brings Home Queen In Gale
THE cyclone that hit Sydney yesterday morning played havoc with things on land. But the revised edition in the afternoon was none the less disastrous to sailing craft on the harbor…
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