Floods Dislocate Traffic on Newcastle Highway
Thousands, of holiday-makers were held up on the Newcastle Highway yesterday by the flooded Wallarah Creek, about…
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Cars Held, Up by Floods Near Newcastle
The flooded Wallarah Creek, 33 miles on the Sydney side of Newcastle, caused a great dislocation in the holiday traffic yesterday. Top: Several hundred cars were held up on the Newcastle side of the river waiting to be towed by truck. Lower: A horse came to the aid of this car and pulled it through the flooded area…
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Thousands of acres of fodder crops have been destroyed, bridges have collapsed, and roads in the Lower Hunter-Manning area are still untrafficable, following severe floods which reached their peak on Friday…
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WORST floods since 1930 forced more than 100 people to leave their homes in Raymond Terrace yesterday. Main street of Raymond Terrace, on the…
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Floodwaters extend from the Maitland-road near Hexham to the houses in the distance. Flooded homes at Ironbark Creek, near Newcastle…
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NEWCASTLE, Sat.--Police and civilians saved many lives at Eagleton and Seaham, near Newcastle, yesterday and today. In several cases rescue parties arrived in the nick of time to families marooned and in serious peril from rising flood waters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rough Time for Victory Men: Cruiser in Gale
Heavy seas pounded the cruiser Shropshire, carrying the Victory contingent, throughout the weekend as she steamed into the teeth of a gale in the Great Australian Bight. Sailors were injured…
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Sydney milk supplies were cut by one third yesterday as a direct result of flooding in the Hunter River dairying districts…
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As flood waters in the Newcastle, Hunter, and coalfields districts recede, widespread devastation is…
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Weather Notes.--The general heavy rain along the Central and lower North coast has now cleared, and the floodwaters in the Newcastle district are…
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Four airliners on flights between Sydney and Melbourne were grounded by a chain of thunderstorms last night…
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A SEVERE cyclonic storm which lashed Sydney for just over an hour this morning forced the closure of Mascot aerodrome and disrupted tram and rail services…
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A SEVERE cyclonic storm which lashed Sydney for just over an hour this morning forced the closure of Mascot aerodrome and disrupted tram and rail services…
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Mascot airport was closed, railway signals were thrown out of action and trams and buses slowed up in a severe electrical storm which struck Sydney and suburbs with gale force early today…
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A SEVERE cyclonic storm which lashed Sydney for just over an hour this morning forced the closure of Mascot aerodrome and disrupted tram and rail services…
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A SEVERE cyclonic storm which lashed Sydney for just over an hour this morning forced the closure of Mascot aerodrome and disrupted tram and rail services…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday. -- Two mechanical navvies have been used to cut a half-mile channel to release 100 million gallons of water that flooded…
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Flooding from the recent rains is responsible for nine of the seventeen idle mines in the State not working today. All…
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Flooding from the recent rains is responsible for nine of the seventeen idle mines in the State not working today. All…
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Flooding from the recent rains is responsible for nine of the seventeen idle mines in the State not working today. All…
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