Storms Raze Island Towns Wellington (N.z.)
Two villages have been destroyed by a series of violent storms over Penrhyn Island, of the Cook group, in the Southern Pacific…
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Information and Help Fencing Flood Reserve
[?] My properly adjoins a flood reserve and a man was allowed to use the area conditionally on his keeping the dividing fence in good repair. At the dividing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale Lashes Penrhyn. Auckland
A fierce gale which lashed Penrhyn Island. in the South Pacific, on December 29 wrecked one-third of the houses in the village of Omoko and two-thirds of those at Tetautau…
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Heavy rain in the past two days has caused a sharp rise in the level of the Wollondilly River, near Mittagong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood Warnings Are Issued Melbourne
At midday to-day the Weather Bureau issued flood warnings for the Murrumbidgee, Lachlan, Darling and Murray rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain in Victoria Melbourne
By 9 a.m. to-day, Mount Buffalo had recorded 638 points of rain for the 24 hours, but the torrential downpour had almost ceased at midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Water Loss At Weir Flood Warning As Rain Drenches State
Water ran to waste at the rate of about 125,000,000 gallons an hour at Warragamba Weir yesterday. The hourly loss of water equalled about two days'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Snow, storms, sweep Europe LONDON
All Europe is in the grip of blizzard-like winter conditions. Today a snowstorm was sweeping the Straits of Dover, driven by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain Holds Up Witnesses. Murder Trial May Adjourn. BRISBANE
Inches of rain which have flooded the parched far west, may prevent three witnesses reaching Cunnamulla on Tuesday for the opening of the hearing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bardia Falls, Garrison Surbienders 25,000 Prisoners include Five Generals Diggers Storm Enemy Posts Australian Losses 'Not Over 500' LONDON
The Libyan coast town of Bardia, defended by the Italians for a fortnight, has fallen, and its garrison has surrendered to British and Australian troops. Total of prisoners taken is 25,000, with five generals--the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Delay 400 on Train Broken Hill
After a journey of 3134 hours. 400 holiday-makers returning from Sydney to start work to-day. did not reach Broken Hill until 3.50 a.m…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swam Flooded Creeks on Tennis Trip
Flooded creeks were swum by J. B. and C. McFeeters, cousins, from Belmont Forest, near Gunning, before they could reach the railway line to travel to Sydney for the opening rounds of the country lawn tennis carnival…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Train Delayed by Floods. 8 HOURS 45 Minutes Late. Broken Hill
Flood waters and washaways between Parkes and Condobolin delayed a train with 400 holiday-makers returning to Broken Hill from Sydney to start work to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flooding in Queensland Brisbane
Hundreds of square miles of Queensland are under water, but little damage has been done. Unless further heavy rain falls flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Sweeps Homes Away: 2 Dead, Fears for Other Lives
Two people were drowned when Sandy Creek burst its banks near Yeoval, between Molong and Dubbo, early to-day, sweeping away homes and flooding the country for miles around…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in Queensland Brisbane
Fifteen inches of rain on the catchment of the Jordan River has caused the highest flood since 1911 in Jericho, in western Queensland…
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Two people were drowned and eight houses washed away yesterday when the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flood Havoc in West. 2 Dead; Towns Inundated. Families Flee Homes. WELLINGTON
Flooded by continuous rain, rivers and creeks have brought death and devastation to the Wellington-Molong-Orange districts…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Quaint Old Weathercocks. Rarities of St. George. Playthings of the Storm
Many a time when I was a lad did I stand on the kerb of Railway Parade, Kogarah, gazing up wonderingly at the quaint old wroucht-iron…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drought Broken Floods Cause Damage in Some Areas
HEAVY rain fell in many inland districts of New South Wales, and severe flooding occurred in several areas this week. The State…
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