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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

281 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 15

Groote Eylandt North Australian Mission Floods, Cyclones--and Dangerous Natives

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 7

The Groote Eylandt Mission, which is to be protected from the Caledon Bay blacks by a police party that has set out from Darwin, is under control of the…

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New Bridges Carnham and Lilydale Flood Waters 30 Feet Over Construction Work

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 3

The effect of the recent rise in the Clarence River upon the construction work at the Carnham and Lilydale bridges was referred to by the Copmanhurst shire…

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Heavy Loss of Life Landslide and Floods. New York

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 5

Messages from Honduras (South America) state that official reports from a village thirty miles east of here to-day said that nineteen persons were buried…

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Thunder Storm

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 October 1933 · page 2

A thunderstorm, accompanied by a sharp downpour which produced 53 points of rain, was experienced yesterday afternoon. The storm…

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Wallabies Return Lack of Good Kicking Old Code Weathers the Storm. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 October 1933 · page 5

"Where we failed, if we did fail, was in goal kicking. We lacked good kicking among the backs, in line kicking and centring," said Dr. Matthews, manager…

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Why Discriminate? in Flood Relief Allocation Shire Councillors Complain of Departmental Methods. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 October 1933 · page 4

Bellingen shire councillors are perturbed over what is taken to be a grossly unfair discrimination on the part of the Local Government Department in the…

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Vagrant Memories Some Sculling Incidents Famous Sprinters of the Past Flood Experiences at Grafton (No. 3). Famous Sprinters

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 October 1933 · page 8

From talking sport, I have drifted away to the social side of Grafton life, so it behoves me to get back to my text. There were some famous sprinters in…

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Trees Uprooted by Storm

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 October 1933 · page 4

The heaviest storm seen in the district for years passed over Tunglebung, near Bonalbo, last Friday night. Black cloud masses rolled up in an alarming…

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Bendigo Feels Gale's Fury

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 October 1933 · page 4

A gale which blew with intense fury for more than an hour about 4 a.m on a recent morning, caused extensive damage between Epsom and Bendigo (Victoria)…

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Cows Killed in Storm Lightning Struck Milking Shed Wauchope

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 October 1933 · page 4

A thunderstorm of exceptional ferocity passed over the Hastings River district above Wauchope this week, when rain resembling a cloudburst deluged the…

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Talkies Garden and Prince Edward Theatres. "Storm at Daybreak "

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 October 1933 · page 6

Starting with a breath-taking spectacle of the world shocking assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Serajevo just before the outbreak of the…

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64 Drowned Steamer Sines During Storm. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 October 1933 · page 5

In a typhoon yesterday, the vessel Yashima Maru (945 tons) sank when nearing Kobe. Sixty-four passengers were drowned…

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Talkies Garden and Prince Edward Theatres. "Storm at Daybreak."

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 October 1933 · page 7

Kay Francis, Nils Asther and Walter Huston will be seen this evening at the Garden and Prince Edward Theatres for the last time in the Metro production…

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Bellinger Money to Repair Flood Damage. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 October 1933 · page 4

The Minister for Local Government has approved of an amount of £937 being made available to the Bellingen Shire Council for expenditure on roads damaged…

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Flood Of Petrol U.S. MOVE May Recognise Russia to Placate Striking Farmers Open Big Market for Cotton Washington

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 October 1933 · page 5

President Roosevelt took the "big headlines" in the newspapers away from the disgruntled western farmers by selecting to-day for an…

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Petrol Flood Conditions Normal Again. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 October 1933 · page 5

Normal conditions existed at Glebe Point this morning following the tense excitement caused over the week-end when 100,000 gallons of Purr Pull petrol…

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Heavy Rain Penetrating Showers Over an Inch at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 October 1933 · page 4

Between 5 and 6 o'clock yesterday evening heavy rain, accompanied by some lightning, fell at Grafton and the record showed 50 points before 8 p.m. The…

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Flood Rains on Coast and Tablelands Weather Bureau Warning

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 October 1933 · page 4

The Postmaster at Grafton yesterday received the following telegram from the Weather Bureau, Sydney:--" Weather Bureau advises that the…

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Storm in Jamaica Three Killed--heavy Damage Kingston

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1933 · page 5

Three were killed, and three million dollars damage caused to-day, by a tropical storm which passed over the western part of Jamaica. Two million banana trees…

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Death by Poison Storm Prevented Death Pact Woman's Story. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 November 1933 · page 5

According to evidence at the adjourned inquest into the death of Robert Bayden Clausen, rabbit trapper, at Heathcote, near Bendigo, which was continued…

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