Dust Storms Hit Most of State
FIERCE dust storms are raging over the State and the prospect of rain is diminishing, the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said this morning…
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Dust Storms Hit Most of State
FIERCE dust storms are raging over the State and the prospect of rain is diminishing, the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dust Storm Wrecks Booligal Church
On Tuesday, January 30, in the worst dust-storm in the history of Western New South Wales, the little wooden Church of St. Michael at Booligal was blown off its foundations, and completely wrecked…
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BRISBANE, Friday. --Four Australian soldiers were injured, one fatally, and considerable damage was caused when…
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BRISBANE, Friday. --Four Australian soldiers were injured, one fatally, and considerable damage was caused when…
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BRISBANE, Friday.--Fifty tents were blown in all directions when a severe gale hit a military camp yesterday near…
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A mitchel medium bomber, with a Dutch pilot and crew, became lost while travelling from Melbourne to Adelaide in a heavy dust storm at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →80 m.p.h. Cyclone Strikes Whyalla
ADELAIDE, Saturday.--With a velocity of more than 80 miles an hour, a cyclone at Whyalla did great damage. A five-ton lorry, loaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →League Player "Treed" By New Guinea Storm
Henry Glasgow, who hopes to play Rugby League with Eastern Suburbs this Reason, claims a pole-sitting record…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Ten ratings serving in an Australian destroyer were lost overboard during heavy weather last…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--Ten naval ratings were lost overboard from an Australian destroyer in heavy weather last Sunday, the Minister for the Navy (Mr. Makin) announced today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scots Advance to Key Town Flooding Threat In West Reduced From Our Staff Correspondent and A.A.P.
LONDON, Feb. 16.—Scottish troops on the northern sector of the Western Front have advanced into the first concrete defences of the Siegfried Line strongpoint of Goch…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cyclone Havoc at Whyalla Works Adelaide
THE Broken Hill Proprietary's blast furnaces and the shipyards at Whyalla suffered severely in an 80 mph cyclone which swept the district today…
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ADELAIDE, Sat. -- Two terrified women were left unhurt when a gale lifted the shed in which they were working at Whyalla today. The shed had no floor. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Storm Brewing For Japan Frisco Talks to Speed Last Blow
IT is certainly appropriate that Anzac Day has been fixed as the date of the great conference of the United Nations at San Francisco for, by that time, we will have seen the implementing of the vital…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Washaway on Main Line Storm Floods Bondi Streets Storm Holds Express, Air Traffic Halted
Heavy thunderstorms struck New South Wales and Victoria yesterday, stopping interstate air traffic, delaying express trains, and flooding some country areas. The Melbourne-Sydney line near Seymour, 71 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waves Engulf Five Boats in Storm Two Others in Collision
Waves rising to a height of six feet crashed down on St. George Club 16-footers during a race on Botany Bay yesterday afternoon, swamping five of the boats, all of which either sank because of the weight of water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Floods Delay Melbourne Express 8 Hours
Hundreds of interstate train passengers held up by washaways in Victoria yesterday are not expected to reach Sydney until tonight. Passengers on the Melbourne Express due in Sydney at 10.20…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thunderstorm Cleanses City Streets
Trams sprayed sheets of water across deserted George Street during the thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. Gutters flowed with muddy water as the raid cleansed city streets…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Deaths in Flood, Lightning Youth Swept From Horse; Man Struck Dead In Tent
Lightning killed a soldier and burned two others in a tent at Singleton yesterday. A youth was swept from his horse and drowned when crossing the flooded Hunter…
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