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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1934

266 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 14

Melbourne Storm Four Men Eectrocuted 60 Families Leave Homes Record Rainfall for 24 Hours. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 December 1934 · page 5

The worst storm for years occurred last night and continued to-day. Torrential rain, accompanied by a gale which, at times, attained a…

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National Disaster Victorian Floods Amazing Conditions Reported by R.A.F. Planes. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 December 1934 · page 5

Three Air Force planes reconnoitred the flooded Gippsland district between Melbourne and Bairnsdale and reported amazing conditions of the…

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Desolation After Fierce Storm Flood Damage Worst In Vic's History Fed. Govt. Grants £10,000 Relief Work Proceeding Aeroplanes to the Rescue. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 5

Working under great difficulties, for road and rail communications are still cut off, relief workers, acting under instructions from the State…

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Floods in Greece Eighteen People Drowned. Athens

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 5

Floods, following rain during the whole of the week, resulted in eighteen being drowned, including a number of travellers, on a crowded lorry, which was swept,…

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A Million Victorian Flood Damage £2000 Grant From N.Z. Flocks and Herds Wiped Out Desolation in Gippsland. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 December 1934 · page 4

A conservative estimate of the damage caused by the disastrous floods is £1,000,000, including £500,000 damage at the State electricity…

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CONSPIRACY To Help Hitler the Reichstag Fire Storm Trooper's Confession Sensational Document. Paris

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 December 1934 · page 5

"Le Journal'' prints a document entitled. "How I fired the Reichstag," signed by Karl Ernst (ex-leader of the storm troops, who was…

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Two Million Vic. Flood Damage £50,000 Relief Fund Body Washed Up on Beach. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 December 1934 · page 5

Funds for the relief of victims of the flood to-day approached £50,000, including donations of £10,000 each from the Victorian and…

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Coff's Harbor Gales on the Coast. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 December 1934 · page 6

Strong southerly gales have been raging along the coast all to-day, whipping up mountainous seas, and a heavy surf is pounding the beaches. Except for…

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Flood Waters Break Through Levees 300 Men Save Towns Yallourn Losses £200,000. MELBOURNE

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 December 1934 · page 3

As the wave of flood waters in the Goulburn River moved downstream last night the danger passed from Mooroopna and Shepparton to…

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CALLIOPE Samoan Gale Incidents Recalled Thrilling Story of Member of Crew Picture to Be Presented to School

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 December 1934 · page 6

Several weeks ago there appeared in the "Daily Examiner" an account of the naming of the township, Calliope. This had some interest for…

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Victorian Floods Goulburn Bursts Banks Huge Stock Losses. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 December 1934 · page 2

Residents on the outskirts of Wyuna have packed their belongings ready for removal, and a team of volunteers commenced at daybreak to-day to harvest…

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Australia to Ulm's Rescue Governments Offer Big Reward To Sampans 10,000 Dols. for Hawaii to Charter 30 VESSELS 'In Good Weather Could Float For Six Days' Storm Blowing Up Is Ominous Threat to Lost Aviators Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 December 1934 · page 5

A special meeting of the Federal Cabinet to-day decided to co-operate with the New South Wales Government in providing 150,000 dollars for an intensive search in the Pacific for Flight-Lieut. Ulm. Communications have been despatched to the Governor of Hawaii…

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Heavy Rain Thunderstorm at Grafton

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 December 1934 · page 4

A thunderstorm, accompanied by heavy rain, was experienced at Grafton last night. Rain commenced to fall at about 7…

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Hail and Rain Heavy Storms in Queensland. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 December 1934 · page 4

A severe thunderstorm which swept the city and suburbs this afternoon resulted in 257 points being registered. Nearly two inches fell between one and two o'clock…

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Five Inches In Half An Hour Rain at Hassan's Creek Heavy Fall in Week-end Storm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 December 1934 · page 4

The Copmanhurst Shire authorities received information yesterday that over five inches of rain had fallen in half an hour on Sunday at…

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Shot in Temple Body Recovered From River "Not Drowned in Floods." Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 December 1934 · page 7

An unexpected development occurred to-day in the police inquiries into the death of a middle-aged man, whose body was found in a tributary of Dandenong…

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Victorian Floods Relief Fund Opened in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 December 1934 · page 5

More than £300 was subscribed at a meeting convened by the Lord Mayor, Ald. Parker, to-day when a fund was opened for the relief of those who suffered…

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Floods in N.Z. Untold Damage Caused Thousands of Sheep Drowned. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 December 1934 · page 5

Untold damage was caused by heavy floods during the last few days in North Auckland where drought conditions had been experienced for a considerable time…

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Gale Off Coast

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 December 1934 · page 4

The Grafton Post Office received a telegram yesterday, stating that a gale was raging off the North Coast, and thai heavy rain and flood conditions were…

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Hole in Wall Crave Flood Fears Allayed Volunteers Work All Night. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 December 1934 · page 5

Fears that the earthen bank on the northern side of the Waranga irrigation basin at Rushworth. in the Goulburn Valley, will collapse through pressure of…

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