GALES LASH N.S.W.

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27733, 10 August 1955, Page 13

GALES LASH N.S.W.

Ship Driven Aground

(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, August 9. Gales lashing New South Wales today drove a 7000-ton ship aground in Newcastle harbour. In Sydney, when gusts reached 60 miles an hour, a tram was derailed and roofs were blown off buildings. The phosphate freighter, Triona, ran, ashore during winds which reached 70 miles an hour in Newcastle. She was refloated an hour later. All the available tugs in Newcastle harbour were rushed to the aid of the Triona. She was loaded with 6800 tons of phosphate. The liner Monowai, battered bv the Rale, reached Sydney from Auckland three hours late. A tram was derailed in Sydney when wind-blown sand covered the tracks. No-one was injured. In the Sydney suburb of Kirribilli, portion of the roof from a house was hurled on to another house two doors away. The roof from a building in a timber yard at Parramatta was hurled 55 feet, smashing the windows of a nearby building. Rain, hail and snow are falling in Victoria. At times, the wind velocity at the Melbourne weather bureau was 63 miles an hour. Flood warnings have been issued alon" the King and Owen rivers east of Wangaratta, where heavy rain is facing stcadilv. The 5033-ton freighter. River Burnett, which is aground in Port Phillip Bay. is being pounded by big seas, which are breaking over her bridge.

Two British scientists warned today that fuel-scarcity would be a serious world-wide problem if a new source of power were not developed. Mr E. Robinson, of Cambridge University, and Mr G. Daniel, of the British Fuel and Power Ministry, delivered a joint paper on “The World’s Need for a New Source of Energy” to the first international conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. They said they wanted to strike a note of urgency on the world’s need to make progress with nuclear energy development. They predicted that reserves of solid and liquid fuels, and natural gas. would be exhausted by the year 2325 at the present level of consumption. If demand jumped 1 per cent, the supply would end by 2090, unless relief was provided by nuclear or other new sources of energy. The world as a whole now consumed about one ton of coal a head for its 2,400.000.000 population a year. By the year 2000, the world's population would have grown to about 3,200.000.000 people. World fuel consumption would be about 7,500.000.000 tons a year by then —more than double.