VIOLENT storms which swept five States of the Commonwealth during the week-end and yesterday interrupted shipping, air and railway services, and caused extensive damage. Floods which have developed in Tasmania are the worst since those of 1929. Temporary relief for 24 hours is forecast, but further ...
Article : 2,304 wordsLOWER portions of the city were flooded this evening, and residents were leaving their homes. Several had removed their furniture, while others had placed it above water level. Air, road and railway communications were completely ...
Article : 2,057 wordsAfter an extraordinary long period, for August, of warm weather, a 57 mile an hour gale swept Sydney and suburbs to-day. ...
Article : 363 wordsHOBART, Monday.—The Acting Premier (Mr. E. Dwyer Gray) stated tonight that at an early hour this morning the Honorary Minister (Mr. J. ...
Article : 519 wordsSeverely buffeted by a gale in Bass Strait, the Holyman steamer Lanena arrived to-day from Hobart 24 hours late. The ...
Article : 107 wordsFlying into the teeth of a 60mile-an-hour northerly gale, the Holyman airliner Bungana took the record long time of four hours ten ...
Article : 331 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Practically all hope of finding the three missing Port Albert fishermen, who are nearly ten days overdue in their ...
Article : 75 wordsAlthough interest has been created by the report of a Sydney handwriting expert that a message found yesterday in a bottle on the ...
Article : 260 wordsLAUNCESTON, Monday.—Air mails from Launceston to Melbourne were returned to the Launceston Post Office, and despatched to the mainland by the ...
Article : 145 wordsMELBOURNE, Monday.—Seven and a half days late on a trip that usually takes eight to ten days, the auxiliary topsail schooner Huia reached ...
Article : 142 wordsSOME mysterious happenings on H.M.A.S. Canberra while going from Brisbane to Sydney were the subject of an official statement to-day. The Minister for Defence (Sir Archdale Parkhill) has ...
Article : 89 words"It becomes more obvious than ever that the Launceston Railway Workshops should have been constructed at Mowbray when the ...
Article : 352 wordsLONDON, Sunday.—The General Council of Trades Unions, in conjunction with the Labor Party, tabled an emergency resolution for the Trades ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Tue 25 Aug 1936, Page 7
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