Streets Swirl With Water After Deluge
Driven by a wind approaching gale force, torrential rain, accompanied by hail, lashed Sydney early this afternoon. . THOUSANDS of shoppers were caught in the deluge and soaked…
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Streets Swirl With Water After Deluge
Driven by a wind approaching gale force, torrential rain, accompanied by hail, lashed Sydney early this afternoon. THOUSANDS of shoppers were caught in the deluge and soaked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Streets Swirl With Water After Deluge
Driven by a wind approaching gale force, torrential rain, accompanied by hail, lashed Sydney early this afternoon. THOUSANDS of shoppers were caught in the deluge and soaked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Streets Swirl With Water After Deluge
Driven by a wind approaching gale force, torrential rain, accompanied by hail, lashed Sydney early this afternoon. THOUSANDS of shoppers were caught in the deluge and soaked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rain and Hail Deluge In City and Suburbs
A heavy rainstorm, bringing a welcome cool change from the south-east, broke over the metropolitan area shortly before 1 o'clock today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Remorseless Deluge of Pots and Pans Our Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Dec. 5.—Loads of pots and pans and cooking ware and tea towels have for weeks been arriving at Harwich, in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Roof Damaged by Storm at Ashfield
A weatherboard cottage in John Street, Ashfield, was partly unroofed during the heavy storm which swept Sydney at 1 o'clock yesterday. The wind, which lasted only a few minutes, caused damage to several other houses in the district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sharp Thunderstorms on Coast
Brief thunderstorms, with some hail and strong southerly winds, struck south-eastern New South Wales yesterday and the…
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From 28 to 75 points of rain fell during the thunderstorm yesterday afternoon in the city and Sydney suburbs. Heavy hail fell on the North Shore…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Storm As Taxpayers' Chief Leaves Meeting
Stating that the meeting was "packed" the president of the NSW Taxpayers' Association, Mr. S. McKellar White, walked out of the annual meeting today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Floods Put in Harness
RIVERS all over the world are waiting to be controlled by men. In a thousand valleys live men of a hundred different tongues. But the things the people live by are the same; the soil and the water, the rivers in the valleys,…
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RIVERS all over the world are waiting to be controlled by men. In a thousand valleys live men of a hundred different tongues. But the things the people live by are the same; the soil and the water, the rivers in the valleys,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gale blows off hospital roof, patients taken to hotel
ADELAIDE, Sat.--A gale today blew the roof off Eyre Peninsula Hospital, Wudenna. sheets of iron from the roof were twisted Ike paper and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bookie Didn't Spoon Under the Moon, But Floodlights Revealed All
PROMINENT paddock bookmaker Fred Vockler went well over the odds in more ways…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Heavy Dust Storms Sweep State
Heavy dust-storms were reported all over New South Wales yesterday. Some western towns reported their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Launches Believed Safe After Gale
POLICE believe that three launches reported missing in yesterday's gale have reached shore safely. One of the launches, owned by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gale Peril On Harbor Bridge
Traffic on the Harbor Bridge felt the full force of yesterday's gale. Tram conductors were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Unroofs Eleven Houses
BRISBANE, Sunday.--Eleven homes were totally or partly unroofed in a cyclonic storm at Upper Kedron and Ferny Grove, near Brisbane, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vain Search In Gale For Launches
Three launches reported to have been flying distress signals off Long Reef, between Curl Curl and Collaroy, about noon in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Rain Falls at Mildura
Steady rain which began to fall about 10 o'clock last night at Mildura gave indication of developing into a worthwhile break in the drought Up…
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