DARWIN CYCLONE
HOUSES NOW FLOODED. HEAVY RAIN SQUALLS. Pearling Fleet -Luggers Return Press Association—CopyrighL (Received 1.5 pim.) Darwin, March 15. Heavy rain squalls swept the town over the Weekend, flooding th louses whn'e roofs and walls snOrc I in
’ !ie recent co ■ lone After havixi been ' ushed by gales for two days and weathered tiic tone oft Darwin,-two lexers entered tbe harbour yesterday in a damage condition. These two vessels kre separated from the main pearlin." fleet, and the Japanete nt mb ro ct the crew comider that the other Tuggers, which ..ere farther East, must have received a more severe battering if they are not well sheltered. A Government patrol boat has left tor the Bathurst Island pearlin'grounds off the. Crocodile Group, .east of Arnheim Land, to dejermine extent of the dcunogo run; cd -by the cyclone to the Mission Nations and the pearlfiig fleet.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 383, 15 March 1937, Page 5
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146DARWIN CYCLONE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 383, 15 March 1937, Page 5
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