Train Marooned. Heavy Queensland Rains. Rivers in Flood. Brisbane
A train bound from Cloncurry to Townsville and carrying eight passengers is marooned at Oorindi, where a sheet of water miles wide has invaded…
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Floods in California. San Francisco, Feb. 28. (A.A.P.)
Heavy rain, for the fourth day in succession, fell on Northern California yesterday. A repetition of the 1937 floods is threatened. Hundreds of families have left flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Stations' Food Runs Low Planes May Drop Food In Floods BRISBANE
So acute is the food position becoming at several stations around Muttaburra, north-east of Longreach, that, unless the flood waters subside…
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While North Island townships and farms are recovering from heavy flooding, and while railways and roads are being repaired, electrical…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Two feet of flood water from the rapidly-rising Gungil creek, is flowing through the main street of Roma. Further…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disease In Wake Of Floods
AUCKLAND, Wednesday. "Many settlers fear an epidemic outbreak in the flooded areas," said L. W…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Schooner Founders in Storm. Stockholm, Feb. 29. (A.A.P.)
The Nova Scotian schooner [?] [?]dered during a storm in the North Atlantic. The swedish motorship Sagoland (3,200 tons) picked up the crew after waiting for 36 hours…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Storm Damage in N.Z. Families Marooned on Island. AUCKLAND
Storm damage involving many thousands of pounds has been caused by the storm which is still lashing the west coast of the South Island…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Floods Cover Vast Area Two Men Drowned In Queensland BRISBANE
An area greater than Victorias 81,884 square miles is estimated to be now under flood in Queensland as a result of the renewal of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland Floods. Planes May Drop Food. Big Arcas Isolated. BRISBANE
Aeroplanes may be used to drop food to communities in the northwest and central west of Queensland which have been isolated because of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Deluge of Rain on Coast
Heavy rain fell yesterday in north coastal districts, some registrations exceeding four inches…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods' Toll. One Man Drowned; One Missing. Queensland Rains. Brisbane
A man was drowned in floodwaters at Home Hill yesterday, and another man, whose taxi stalled in a flooded creek near Townsville, is missing…
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Brisbane River valley was flooded at Lowood to-day, when water inundated farm lands. The traffic bridge at Murrumba…
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DON'T you think it is time the Government secured someone who can give the public some idea of the weather…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →San Francisco Floods San Francisco
The floods are subsiding, leaving five dead, 5000 wrecked homes and thousands of acres of crops ruined. The damage runs into many…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lismore Floods After Downpour Large Areas Are Under Water LISMORE
A fall of nearly six inches of rain in the Lismore district since 9 a.m. Friday, has caused serious flooding in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →War produces flood of patriotic songs
CANBERRA, Saturday. -- The war has caused a flood of patriotic songs in Australia. Since hostilities began 85 new songs and the words without music of nine others have been copyrighted at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Heavy Rain on North Coast. May Spread Over State
Heavy rain fell on the North Coast during the week-end, many towns registering more than four inches. The State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, said…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sea-roamer's Fight to Reach Port Yacht Crippled In Storm
Helpless in a big storm, between Suva and Auckland, when the sails of the yacht he was handling blew out and the engine broke down, was the desperate position in which Frank Dona, Dutch yachtman, who…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brisbane River Flood. Brisbane
Rain fell incessantly in the city yesterday, and neey all sports were abandoned, although the races were held at Albion Park. Floods in the upper reaches of the Brisbane…
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