Relic of 67 Flood [?]Ry at Wallacia. States First Brewery?
The walk of tunnelling under the Ne[?] River at W[?]llacia in the construction of the W[?]gamba Scheme has been the [?] bringing to light some old…
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The Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, June 30, 1939. the Gathering Storm
Mr. Chamberlain's outspoken speech at Cardiff last Saturday has received an addendum in the form of a British Note to Germany which repeats his…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Victorian Floods Rivers Spreading Over Wide Area Rescues By Police Boats MELBOURNE
All low-lying land in the north-east of Victoria, from below the Hume Weir, near Wodonga, to Eastern Gippsland, is under water, the result of almost continuous rains in the past fortnight…
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WATER POWER in the Northwest. This tangled mass consists of a plough and nine panels of fencing, including…
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There were further general rains over most of New South Wales yesterday, with some local floodings in Riverina. According to N.R.M.A. reports, a nmber of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →160 Perish in Flood. Sofia, June 30. (A.A.P.)
The death-roll in the flood caused by the overflowing of Lake Rosca after a cloudburst, is 160. Four hundred houses were swept away…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Flood Peril. Nine Families Homeless. Police Rescues at Wangaratta. MELBOUUNE
Nine families were driven from their homes at Wangaratta to-day by the worst floods for years. Houses were inundated. The Bright Road…
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Wangaratta residents signed with relief this morning when daylight showed that all danger from floods had passed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nightmare Trip With Leper Troubles With, Floods And Breakdowns
TWENTY-FOUR days with a leprosy patient on a journey, which normally would have taken six days, a 19-mile walk for assistance after a motor breakdown, nights spent alone…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Twenty families have been forced by flood's to evacuate their homes at Wangaratta. The Ovens River is already three feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Winter's Grip. Sydney's Coldest Day This Year, Gales and Snow
With rivers swollen in the south gales raging at sea a blizzard on the Alps, and a bitter southerly wind, the weather over New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Art and the Moderns. a Melbourne Storm. Academy Defends Itself. by Our Melbourne Correspondent
Warfare may no longer be regarded as an art, but art is still often a matter of warfare. For just half a century the artistic world of Melbourne has been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Flood Fatality in Victoria. Rivers Still Rise. Melbourne
A man was swept into a flooded creek and was drowned, at Trafalgar yesterday. This was the first fatality in the…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- All danger of serious flooding in Victoria has passed, but weather all over the State is still unsettled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Floods in Victoria — New Wing at Children's Hospital — Police Recruits, Begin Training
A foot of water in theil house was not enough to drive these people from their home at Wangaratta, Victoria, where serious floods have rendered nine families homeless. Floods occurred in other parts of Victoria at the week-end. This boat was used by a Wangaratta resident to reach his cattle, which were marooned on an island near the Ovens River by the floods in the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Simpson Desert Party. Heavy Rain Hampers Progress. ADELAIDE
A radio message from Dr. Madigan, leader of the Simpson Desert Expedition, states that the expedition was making slow progress down the Mulligan River. More than two inches…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Launch Lost In Heavy Gale
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--All hope for the two men lost in a fishing launch off Newcastle on June 26 vanished when the…
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AIR MINISTER, Sir Kingsley Wood (left), and Sir Thomas Inskip deep in thought as they leave a vital meeting of the British Inner Cabinet at No. 10 Downing Street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclonic Gale in Tasman; Ships Buffeted
With a cyclone raging in the Tasman, the Awatea is having one of her worst experiences this year, on the way from Auckland. Due at 8 a.m. to-morrow, her commander, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Golfers Freeze in Heavy Rain Miss Rankin And Miss Nathan Will Meet In Final
Miss Margaret Rankin, Royal Sydney and Newcastle, and Miss Betty Nathan, The Lakes, will meet in the final of the women's State golf championship over 36 holes at the Australian…
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