100 Families At Lismore Fled Flooded Homes
Nearly 100 Lismore families abandoned their homes last night as a huge volume of water moved down the Richmond River, threatening the town…
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AUSTRALIANA Ran naked through storms
LIGHTNING seems to affect people in various ways. Driving along the Princes Highway recently during a severe thunderstorm I saw a…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →January Start for Great World Pantomime to Run If No Heavy Rain
Favorite Great World will start in the January Handicap at Randwick today, announced trainer Tom Murray this morning…
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Favorite Great World will start in the January Handicap at Randwick today, announced trainer Tom Murray this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Yacht Crew Saved in 30-Knot Gale
CHRISTCHURCM (N.Z.), Saturday, â Transferred from their dismasted yacht to the Lyttelton trawler, Tawera in a 30-knot gale, the crew of the Astral a competitor in the Wellington-Lyttlelton…
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CHRISTCHURCH (N.Z.), Saturday. -- Transferred from their dismasted yacht to the Lyttelton trawler, Tawera in a 30-knot gale, the crew of the Astral a competitor in the Wellington-Lyttelton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Rise 500 Leave Homes
About 500 Lismore people had evacuated their homes last night as the city prepared to face…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man, Woman Drown As North Coast Flood Rises
A man and a woman were drowned yesterday as the Richmond River rose rapidly, threatening the Lismore district with one of its worst floods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heroic flood dash to sick woman
Ambulance officers and other rescuers last night reached a seriously ill woman near Kyogle after battling across swift-flowing floodwaters and carrying a rowing boat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plane drops food to towns Most of Queensland floodbound Brisbane Cut Off
Three-quarters of Queensland is floodbound and Brisbane is virtually cut off by floods. Some of Brisbane's outer suburbs were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Isolated Lismore's Flood Vigil
Hundred of square miles of Lismore district farmlands are under flood water, which has isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Take Third Victim in Richmond River Area
A man found dead near Coraki today Was the third victim of the Richmond River Valley floods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Isolated Lismore's Flood Vigil
Hundreds of square miles of Lismore district farmlands are under flood water, which has isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Take Third Victim in Richmond River Area
A man found dead near Coraki today was the third victim of the Richmond River Valley floods…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Isolated Lismore's Flood Vigil
Hundreds of square miles of Lismore district farmlands are under flood water, which has isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Isolated Lismore's Flood Vigil
Hundreds of square miles of Lismore district farmlands are under flood water, which has isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exclusive Flood Pictures
THESE pictures, taken from a "Sunday Herald" plane yesterday, show how seriously floodwaters have invaded the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rescuers Blindfold Sick Woman During Trek In Northern Flood
LISMORE, Saturday. — Rescuers blindfolded a seriously ill woman before they swung her across an improvised flying-fox over a creek in the flooded Kyogle district to-day…
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AMBULANCE men rescuing a woman flood victim 16 miles from Kyogle yesterday, had to rig a flying fox over a creek, blindfold the woman, and haul her across lashed to a stretcher…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →North Coast floodwaters capsize rescue boat Sick woman blindfolded for river crossing
Kyogle ambulance officers yesterday rigged a steel cable as a flying-fox to carry a woman stretcher-patient over a flooded stream. They had tried to…
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