Northern Flood Storms Passing
BRISBANE, Sunday.--The cyclonic disturbance which has caused heavy flooding in northern Queensland has turned away from the coast and moved…
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The Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, April 7, 1941. the Storm Breaks in the Balkans
For once Hitler can be believed when, in the act of imbruing his hands in the blood of two more unoffending peoples, he declares that he did not…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland Floods. Luxuriant Growth of Grass
"The Bulloo River, like all the rivers in south-western Queensland, is in flood, and likely to be for another month [?] more," writes the New South Wales Flying…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, April 12, 1941. Storm Signals in the Pacific
Though the fateful campaigns now being fought in Greece and Yugoslavia must inevitably dominate the public mind at the present time, the people of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm Over Spain Sinks Nine Boats ROME
A storm of exceptional violence swept the Spanish coast near Tarifa Nine fishing boats were sunk. Telephonic and telegraphic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Radio Rival to Berlin [New Transmitter To Flood Pacific With Allied News And Open Gate For Australian Post War Trade]
The Australian Kookaburra will laugh in seven languages when Australia's new 100-kilowatt transmitting station, as powerful as Berlin's best, is built. THE kookaburra's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Storm Upsets Trot Betting
A heavy storm broke over the course when the horses were going to the post for the Easter Cup at Victoria Park trots to-day and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Storm Shifts Station Auckland
A whirlwind shirred a wooden railway station near Westport today. After an electrical storm, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Golf Greens Saved by Heavy Rain
Heavy rain yesterday ended the worries of several golf clubs, which were without water for recently-seeded…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Talk Over Deluge to Come Bimlow
Down in the Burragorang Valley to-day something stirred. It was the resident…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Ben by Club Prize Letter Great Flood
"MOOLAKAR" (Wanearing) I am going to tell you about great Hood which name soon after Christmas. It was only a few days sowing from Hungerford down here,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Into the Storm!
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →40-Hour Gale Strikes Sydney
A 40-mile-an-hour gale struck Sydney at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. It lasted for two or three minutes, and was followed by a thunderstorm,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Martyred City. Bristol Under Bomb Deluge
The following graphic and poignant description of a large-scale air attack on Bristol—the city has been bombed several times since—is…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bombarded Bookies Bawl "One Goer" Slammed, Sunk By Sethia Bowser Bursts: Flood
WITH their faces white and their language red, bookmakers went about their business of paying-out on Sethia in the last race at Randwick yesterday—the Club Welter—vehemently declaring that it was a "one-goer affair," or more commonly known as a "boat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Caught In The Flood
It was in the middle of a drought. The plains were bare. A boiling sun beamed down out of a hot and sultry shy. Great white-capped clouds with a deep black at their base, hung in the west and east. Looking up from where I was feeding stock, I stared at the dark…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tin Bath Rescue From N.Z. Flood. Auckland
The worst flood for more than 20 years isolated many settlers near Palmerston North. Duck shooters were also marooned, and heavy losses of stock are feared…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Epic Rescues From Record Floods Wellington (N.z.)
Territorial troops, using pontoons, folding boats, dinghies, chain-tyred trucks, and lifelines, strove throughout the night to rescue farmers and their families from the biggest Manawatu River floods since 1902. They…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods in New Zealand. Auckland
Hundreds of acres of the most attractive residential area of Palmerston North were swept by flood waters last night. Many homes were damaged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flood of Orders for East Canberra
Orders involving millions of pieces of manufactured textiles, which will necessitate the output of…
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