Vast Damage by Big Floods
BRISBANE, Wed.--Damage caused by the present heavy floods in Queensland may amount to £150,000. Subsiding waters in tho far north are revealing a trail of ruin…
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Flood Of Lost Umbrellas
It never rains but it pours. That's what officials of the N.S.W. Transport are saying. For six weeks not a single umbrella…
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When flood waters swept through Tangorin today three residents were rescued by boat and taken to safety, four miles away. They are Mrs. Golden, Miss Vera Golden, and Mr…
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Boisterous westerly winds are expected to strike Sydney early to-day. Cooler weather should result, and there is the possibility of a shower…
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HOBART, Thursday.--Two men working in a stormwater drain beneath a city pavement today were swept off their feet when the drain suddenly flooded after…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Resignation in U.a.p. Stirs Storm
RESIGNATION of Mr. H. Mitchell, M.L.A., as chairman of the U.A.P. Youth Movement, has precipitated a first-class dog-fight in U.A.P. circles. General secretary of the…
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LONDON, Saturday.--Violent storms swept across Turkey to the Black Sea yesterday. Snow, driven by a 50-mile-an-hour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cyclonic Storm Rocks N.Z. AUCKLAND
All coastal shipping is rushing to shelter in face of the first shocks of a cyclonic storm…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Food Is Flown Across Flood BRISBANE
MUTTABURRA is still obtaining its food supplies by air, although the flood waters are subsiding…
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The belated resignation of the Minister for Customs, Mr. Lawson, is expected to cause further embarrassment to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spectre As Bar To True Love Lane Sisters, Gale Page--Century
The affairs of the four daughters of Adam Lemp, music-leader of a minor American city, continue to be of more than ordinary interest to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Storm Damage in N.Z. Traffic Disorganised. AUCKLAND
A terrific storm struck the North Island late last night. Railway traffic between Auckland and Wellington has bepn disorganised by slips and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →4000 People Living in Trains N.Z. Road, Rail Blockages Large Area Flooded Taumarunui (N.z.)
Four thousand people are stranded by flooding in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand. I am one of them. Women with children, who have already spent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Food Supplies by Air Extensive Floods In Queensland BRISBANE
Still isolated after 10 days of flooding, Muttaburra, in central west Queensland, is receiving its food supplies by air…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Help From Planes in Floods Wellington, (N.z.)
Air Force planes dropped food and blankets to people marooned in floods in North Island to-day…
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TAUMARUNUI (N.Z.). Monday.--Heavy floods in the centre of New Zealand's North Island have resulted in nearly 4000 people being…
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CASINO, Tuesday.--Heat wave conditions have been prevailing for the past five days, during which the temperature has averaged over 100…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Havoc in N.Z. Many Families Marooned. Planes Drop Food. AUCKLAND
Food and blankets were dropped from aeroplanes over the hinterland ot Taranaki to-day to meet the desperate needs of families in farm…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →High Floods in Queensland Water Two Feet In Roma BRISBANE
Further serious flooding, with the isolation of more towns, is expected in northern and central-western Queensland, following the monsoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bread, Blankets By Parachute In N.Z. Floods AUCKLAND
Air Force planes will parachute bread and blankets to people cut off by floods in the Awakino district of the north island of New Zealand. The worst flood within memory has damaged bridges…
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