SEVERE STORM
WIDESPREAD DAMAGE AT SYDNEY GALE IN NEW SOUTH WALES DROVER KILLED BY FALLING TREE HJ piled Press Assnciniion-By Eleelrle telegraph—Copyright! ißeceived 11th September, 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. During a gale yesterday a drover was crushed by a falling tree on the north coast and was killed. People in houses were endangered when roofs were torn of! and widespread damage was done. Five people were marooned on the Seal Rocks when a yacht was driven aground and wrecked. They are living with the lighthouse keeper until it is possible to take them to the mainland. Snow fell on the Blue Mountains. The cold snap following warm days resulted in serious losses of sheep. / A number of small craft were wrecked in Sydney Harbour, the shores of which were littered with timber from capsized lighters.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 10
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136SEVERE STORM Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 10
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