Gulls fight vainly against winter storm
EACH TIME ese seagulls flew out to sea from Bondi Beach yesterday the cold southerly blew them back to shore…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods & storms, 1939
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Freighter Gale. Rough Trip from N.Z. to Newcastle. NEWCASTLE
The Union Company freighter, Kalingo, took nine days. compared with a normal five or six, on a voyage from Wellington (N.Z.) to Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Hispaniola Towed Home in Gale Fifth Attempt to Reach Lord Howe Island Fails
Fighting a howling southerly, a Daily Telegraph launch last night took the Hispaniola in tow off Palm Beach and brought it into Broken Bay. This marked the conclusion of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stormy Weather To Continue Temporary Lull Tomorrow, Mares Expects Gales And High Seas Buffet Coast
Gold, stormy conditions oyer the eastern half of Australia are expected to continue for the next 48 hours. Gales are blowing off the coast, and floods are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Danger Reduced. Melbourne
The failure of the tropical disturbance to move as far southward as was expected has reduced the danger of floods for the present. Most streams, particularly in eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Tasman Lashed by Gale
Although fine weather has returned to the New South Wales coast, a southwesterly gale is still howling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storms Sweep N.Z. AUCKLAND
Storms are sweeping New Zealand, with the barometer very low. A severe storm burst over Auckland carly this morning. With a blinding flash and a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Milder Days Expected. Tasman Storm Still Rages. Many Ships Late
The disturbance which has caused very cold weather in Sydney has moved eastwards, and during the next few days the weather in Sydney is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ships Running Late Against Gale Awatea Due 5 P.M., Nine Hours Late; Morinda Now Tomorrow
A south-easterly gale, reaching 75 m.p.h. in squalls, has disorganised shipping services off the coast and in the Tasman. The interstate liner Westralia,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flooded Guildford Street
Mrs V. Wilson, of Guernsey Street, Guildford, com[?] to [?]royd Council of the state of the road and footpath in [?] of her property. After heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fighting Flooded River Wellington (N.z.)
Thousands of acres in the Manawatu district are menaced by erosion, caused by the flooded Manawatu River after heavy rain. Settlers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tasman Gale Ships in Fierce Storm. Cold Weather Over Slate
While Sydney shivered yesterday morning with temperatures at their lowest since August last year, shipping in the Tasman battled through an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Awatea Battles Big Gale
"I have never experienced a gale of such persistent force." The master of the Awatea, Captain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gale Still Rages Vessel's Ordeal Long Tasman Crossing
The cyclone is still raging across the Tasman, and wireless messages to-day from the Union freighter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Awatea In 3 Days' Gale 10½ Hours Late on Longest Crossing Most Passengers Keep To Their Cabins
After battling for three days through one of the worst storms ever experienced on the Tasman Sea, the Awatea berthed at Sydney from New Zealand last night 10½ hours late…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →38 Die in Floods. Kentucky Cloudburst. Thousands Homeless. New York, July 6. (A.A.P.)
A cloudburst, resulting in floods, caused at least 38 deaths and made many thousands of people homeless in north-eastern Kentucky, says a message…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →100 Missing As Flood Waters Rise MOREHEAD, Kentucky
With 54 bodies recovered, and more than 100 persons still missing, through yesterday's floods, heavy rains to-day brought additional…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale Warnings in Europe
FEW men are in as good a position to know the inside of Europe as Edouard Daladier, Premier of the French Republic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vessels in Grip of Gale
AFTER a six-days' buffeting from a south-west gale, the Burns, Philp steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gale Hits Ships on Tasman
Wireless messages from ships to-day indicate that the cyclone in the Tasman is still making its presence…
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