Storm was too tough for 18's
THE violent storm which hit Sydney yesterday wrought havoc to 18- footers contesting the…
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Sudden Storm Sets 18's Stiff Test
Only four boats completed the course in the State 18ft. Championship, sailed by the Sydney Flying Squadron on the Harbor yesterday. Billy Barnett, in his brother's…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Cumberland Drops To Third Storm Ruins Grade Games
Cumberland were yesterday displaced in grade cricket as leaders of the competition by Northern District and Balmain who now share top place with 49 points each. Cumberland is in…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Child Dies, 30 INJURED Theatre wall crashes during storm
ONE child was killed and 30 injured-- three of them critically-- when a storm blew in the back wall of a Parkes theatre yesterday. Rescuers had to dig the children out from 10 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thunderstorm Did Not Baulk Pill Pushers
Despite it being the middle of summer—and the middle of January—and the so-called off-season for golf—the recent rains tempted many players back on to metropolitan golf courses yesterday and at Cromer, more than 100 pairs contested an invitation four-ball stableford event…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Thunderstorm Ruins Homes: £50,000 Loss
MORE than £50,000 worth of damage has been reported following the 70 mph thunderstorm which hit Sydney just before 5 pm yesterday. Dozens of roofs were blown off homes, windows were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gale Strikes Brisbane
BRISBANE, Sunday. — Roofs were ripped off houses and telephone and electnc light wires were blown to the ground…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Snowstorms, Heavy Gales Sweep Victoria
Snowstorms, torrential rains, and 60 m.p.h. winds caused damage in Melbourne and other parts of Victoria yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freak Gale Damage in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Violent storms that battered southern Victoria yesterday and last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Storm Causes Heavy Damage
OCCUPANTS of H o u sing Commission huts at Har- grave Park, near Liverpool, lost heavily during the cyclonic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wall Down in Storm
BARED framework of the Broadway Theatre, Parkes after the rear wall collapsed during a violent storm on…
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BARED framework of the Broadway Theatre, Parkes after the rear wall collapsed during a violent storm on…
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BARED framework of the Broadway Theatre, Parkes after the rear wall collapsed during a violent storm on…
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BARED framework of the Broadway Theatre, Parkes after the rear wall collapsed during a violent storm on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Material to repair storm's damage
The State Government will assist in the provision of building materials to repair damage caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£500,000 Damage in Storm
Damage to property and crops by the hurricane which swept a wide area of the State at the week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three States Lashed by Gales Long Trail Of Damage
Twenty-four hours after Sydney's week-end hurricane, fierce gales lashed the Victorian and Queensland coasts yesterday and last night,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Storm Unroofs 10 Houses In Q'land
A storm which fasted half an hour in Brisbane last night tore the roofs off 10 houses and a bank, blew down telephone and electric light wires, and broke hundreds…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flats Unroofed in Storm; Tenants Move Possessions
[?]This section of a block of flats in Chelmsford Avenue, Botany, was unroofed during Saturday's freak storm. Residents spent yesterday removing their furniture and personal belongings…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →200 Homes Damaged And Boy And Man Killed In Fierce Gale
More than 200 metropolitan and country homes were partly or wholly unroofed in Saturday's hurricane. Other highlights of the storm which swept…
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