Planes in Gale. Airliner Stops at Kempsey
An international airliner, an Air Force Avro Anson, and a D.H.86 plane were caught in the severe hail and ram storm, accompanied by 50…
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Airliner Loses Radio Contact in Fierce Storm
Flying through a blinding hailstorm at 200 m.p.h., a Dutch airliner lost radio contact with Kingsford Smith airport yesterday. The wireless operator of the machine was unable to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Liner in Tasman Storm. Passengers Slightly Hurt. AUCKLAND
An American liner has arrived at Auckland from Sydney after a tempestuous crossing of the Tasman Sea. Several passengers were slightly injured and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →550 Reported Drowned. Indigirka Disaster. Ship Ashore in Gale. Tokyo, Dec. 14. (A.A.P.)
According to the latest report, 550 persons were drowned in the Indigirka disaster and 402 were rescued. The Indigirka, a Russian passenger steamer…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Minister Sees Floodgates First Train Trip Under Thames LONDON
The first train to run under the Thames since the outbreak of war carried the Minister of Transport (Captain Wallace) on an inspection…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sidelight On The Law: Floodlight On Politics
CYNICISM, unusual even in a Court of Law, marked the defence when an M.L.C. (of N.S.W.) was sued by a man who retired from an election contest on the alleged promise of a trip to England and a Government job…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fascination Of A Storm At Sea
TAKING courage from the superb view which met my gaze, I crept a little nearer the cliff edge and peered over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A welcome respite after 12 months of political storm
THE State Cabinet has held its last meeting for the year, and most Ministers and M.L.A's. are planning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Record Rush of Christmas Mail Phone System Strained Flood Of Greetings
To-day the Postal Department is working as it has never worked before, handling the biggest mail on record-- close on 3,500,000 letters and packets. Yesterday 2,500,000 articles were handled at the…
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"BLOCK BOX" [?] It was chritsmas Eve, a hot and almost night, [?] The lighting [?] the thunder rowbled and the rain came down in [?] Many…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flood Tide in Christmas Post
"TOO MANY SANTA CLAUS" is the complaint of the Postal Department, which is struggling to cope with the Christmas rush. Scene in the G.P.O. yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Highest Score Record S.A. Deluge of Runs Adelaide
South Australia's 821, at which the innings against Queensland was closed to-day, with seven wickets…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Baby marooned in Arctic when plane forced down in storm
NOME (Alaska), Saturday. -- A 15-months-old baby was among four plane passengers marooned for three days in the Arctic. A Mirow Airlines plane,was forced down in sub-zero weather…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Andreas' Page Two Time Skids Along :: Philosophy In A Cemetery:: Singer Caused Gales :: Meltable Faces :: Scat :: Toothbrush Sahib :: Rendezvous With Shark Dec. 24th, '39
SO, at last, we come to Christmas. With each successive appearance of Old Man Claus, a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Twenty Dead in Floods
MANILA, Saturday. -- At least 20 lives have been lost in the flooded Gagayan River district of Luzon (Philippine Islands)…
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Fred Rebell, Latvian sailor-author, ate Christmas dinner of dry bread and olive oil in 1932…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fishermen Drowned in Storms. Coast of Portugal. LONDON Dec, 25. (A.A.P.)
Storms on the coast of the Algarve Province. Portugal, sank the Spanish fishing boat Purlta Perez drowning 56 of the crew of 61. A Portuguese fishing boat was also lost…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Deluge of Mud in Homes Wellington (N.z.)
A house and roads slid down hillsides, and gardens disappeared in minor avalanches, when torrents of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hotter To-day in City Thunderstorms In Country
While temperatures in Sydney will be higher to-day than yesterday, and there is a promise of greater sultriness, there are no heat-wave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bluebottle Stings Girl Flood Victim?
Judith Seymour, 14, of Russell Street, Balmain, was badly stung about the chest by a bluebottle yesterday when she was surfing at South BRISBANE. Tuesday.--It is feared that Victor Black, 21, of Hughenden, has lost his life in the flooded Flinders River…
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