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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

281 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 15

Shop Window Flooded

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 December 1933 · page 4

When the Casino School of Arts building was gutted by fire last Boxing Day Mr. J. T. Craddock, the well-known stationer, had most of his stocky either…

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Storm at Melbourne River Craft Damaged. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 4

Heavy rain, accompanied by a windstorm, swept Melbourne, to-day, the wind reaching a velocity of 55 miles per hour. Ninety points of rain fell during the…

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Flood of Liquor to Enter United States. Washington

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 December 1933 · page 5

It is announced that allocations for 5,595,000,000 gallons of liquor to be imported within the next four months. have been granted. It is aimed to destroy…

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Severe Storm Campers' Narrow Escape Gale Uproots Trees and Damages House. Mylneford

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 December 1933 · page 4

The intense heat experienced off Wednesday culminated in a particularly severe storm at Mylneford. Rain fell in torrents and a storm from…

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Trail of Ruin Destructive Storms in Riverina Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 December 1933 · page 5

A violent electric storm, which passed over parts of New South Wales yesterday, to eventually cause damage in Melbourne, left a trail of ruin in its wake…

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Heavy Gales Twenty-four Seamen Drowned Shipping in Trouble. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 December 1933 · page 5

Twenty-four seamen were drowned in three shipwrecks in yesterday's heavy gales. A vessel was seen to sink off Aldburg…

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Heavy Rain at Kyogle

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 December 1933 · page 4

A terrific cloudburst of greater dimensions than that which occurred in the same locality a few weeks ago when a lorryload of furniture was swept away, came…

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Atlantic Gales Lives Lost on American Coast. Boston

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 December 1933 · page 5

Three seamen were drowned, and 19 rescued, early this morning, when the fishing schooner, Ellen T. Marshall, was burned to the water's edge and sank, in…

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Four Bodies Washed Up Another Ship Lost in Gale. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 5

Four bodies washed ashore at Norfolk appear to indicate the loss of the steamer Broomfleet of 854 tons with a crew of thirteen during the same gale which last…

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CYCLONE Along Coast Of India Trains Blown Off Line Silence of Italian Steamer. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 December 1933 · page 5

A cyclone caused many deaths and heavy damage on the Madras coast during the week-end. The Greek steamer Nereus arrived…

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Cyclone in Madras Over 100 People Killed. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 December 1933 · page 5

One hundred were killed in a cyclone in Madras Presidency at the week-end. There, was damage estimated at nearly £80,000, while thousands of cattle…

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[?]Lectric Storm on Bellinger Heavy Fall of Hail. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 December 1933 · page 4

Severe storms were experienced last night on parts of the Bellinger River district, and at Kalang and the Upper South Arm of the river, considerable…

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Four Inches in Half-hour Severe Storm at Camira Creek. Camira Creek

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 December 1933 · page 4

On Thursday afternoon a very severe storm came over the district. The rain was of a torrential nature, four inches falling inside half an hour. A strong wind…

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Melb. Deluge Christmas Day Storm. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 5

A heavy storm, accompanied by thunder, lightning and hail, broke over the city and suburbs yesterday afternoon, 160 points of rain being registered in an hour…

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Heavy Rain on Richmond. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 4

Rain fell last night and to-day, being very heavy along the beaches, washing out many campers. The average fall was about an inch…

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Flooded Two Melb. Suburbs Owing to Creek Breaking Embankment. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 December 1933 · page 5

Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused by the flooding, of Kensington and Macauley, two lowlying centres of Melbourne, and many residents were…

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Keep Going in Storm

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 4

Referring to a recent instance of a car being struck by lightning near Murwillumbah, the chief engineer of the N.R.M.A. states that such cases are extremely rare…

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The White City Floodlights [?]me Of 'Draughts' In Paris [?]M the Huddersfield Match [?]Ules Question Crops Up November 23

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 2

[?] article 2000 feet up in the air on one of the four[?] liners, the Heracles, up above the gardens of Kent [?] Paris with the secretary of the English Rugby [?]ohn Wilson) after one of the most hectic weeks of…

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£30,000 Damage Floods in Melb. Suburb. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 5

Damage to property through the Christmas Day floods at Kensington is estimated at £30,000. An appeal is being made to assist the sufferers, many of whom have…

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Rabbit Scares Town Burrowed Through Flood Wall

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 December 1933 · page 4

A small rabbit recently gave Binjeroop, a small-township at the junction of the Loddon and Murray Rivers, Victoria, its greatest scare during its three days'…

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