Crowds Flock To See Storm Damage
(Rec. 1.0 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Reports that abnormally high tides were causing Cronulla promenade together with the North Cronulla Surf Club building worth £70,000, to slip into the sea, resulted in Sydney's biggest traffic jam since 1938. Eighteen thousand motor cars travelling to the resort town. 15 miles south of Sydney in inspect the damage, caused blocks which extended for five miles.
Cn Friday huge seas tore down a third of the promenade and undermined the remainder.
The clubhouse withstood the pounding yesterday, but began to collapse at 10.30 last night,
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Northern Advocate, 26 August 1946, Page 5
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