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Broken Hill & the Far West · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1934

200 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 9 of 10

Flood Pictures From S. A.

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 November 1934 · page 4

BOTH ADELAIDE and COUNTRY suffered damage in the floods caused by the rain storms last week, but the prospects of good crops are brighter after the fall. These pictures show (top) floodwaters in Gibson-street, Bowden; (centre) a scene at Jamestown, where homes and properties were damaged, and (beneath) crossing Anzac Highway (Adelaide) after the Storm abated…

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Pirie Flood Sufferers May Divide £16,000 In Cash

Barrier Miner · Monday 19 November 1934 · page 3

PORT PIRIE, Monday.—If the flood relief committee, which will be called together in a few days, adopts the recommendation of the mayor…

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Cars Collide During Dust Storm

Barrier Miner · Monday 26 November 1934 · page 3

Motor cars driven by John Ethridge Harmer, 187 Zebina-street, and Wilfred Alan Thom. of 360 Oxide-street, came into collision on the Stephens Creek…

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Gale Sweeps Victoria Shipping Badly Hampered MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 November 1934 · page 1

A terrific gale swept the Victorian coast during last night. Shipping in Hobson's Bay was seriously hampered, and one vessel dragged its anchors…

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Fierce Storm in Victoria Heavy Damage On Coast Further Gales Forecast (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition.) MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 1 December 1934 · page 6

Whipped up by a 50 miles an hour gale, mountainous seas pounded the coast last night, wrecking and damaging…

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Fierce Storm in Victoria Heavy Damage On Coast Further Gales Forecast (Reprinted From Yesterday's Latest Edition.) MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Saturday 1 December 1934 · page 12

Whipped up by a 50 miles an hour gale mountainous seas pounded the coast last night, wrecking and damaging…

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Victoria's Worst Storm 6 Lives Lost Hundreds Homeless Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 1 December 1934 · page 13

The full extent of the havoc wrought by the 50 mile an hour gale the worst sustained storm on record, which has swept Victoria since…

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Victoria's Worst Storm 6 Lives Lost Hundreds Homeless Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 1 December 1934 · page 1

The full extent of the havoc wrought by the 50 mile an hour gale, the worst sustained storm on record, which has swept Victoria since…

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Ship Lost in Storm Crew Of 17 Missing Tragedies at Kooweerup Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 3 December 1934 · page 1

It is now considered certain that the mising steamer Coramba foundered off the Nobbys, Phillip Island, with a…

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Damaged In Storm In Victoria

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 3

HOUSE NEAR THE SEAFRONT at Elwood, Victoria, which almost bobbed up and down with the waves, so great was the encroachment of the sea…

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Pilots Terrifying Time During Cyclonic Storm (Reprinted from Yesterday's Latest Edition.) Mount Gambier

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 4

Describing their experiences when caught in a cyclonic storm near Portland, Mr. It. J. Carter, the Mount Gambier airman, and Lieutenant A…

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18 Drowned in Floods in Greece

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 3

ATHENS, Decomber 3.— Floods due to heavy rain, which hag continued for a week, have drowned 18 people…

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Flood Waters Subsiding £1,000,000 Damage At Yallourn 6000 People Homeless

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — The floods are beginning to subside le[?]ing devastation in their wake. At Yallourn the damage in the open…

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Flood Scenes In-victoria

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 4

HOMES IN MACAULAY, a low-lying suburb three miles from Melbourne, suffered much damage in the flood a. This scene shows a party wading waist high in the water to see how some of their neighbors fared. THIS SCENE was typical of the ruin along the foreshore on Saturday. Yachtsmen were unequal to thc task of saving many craft…

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Another Melbourne Storm Scene

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 December 1934 · page 4

BIG SEAS POUNDING THE SEAWALL near North-road, Brighton, durran the height of the storm which raged over…

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Youths Storm Theatre in Dublin (Reprinted from Yesterday's Latest Edition.)

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 December 1934 · page 4

LONDON, December 3. — Several hundred youths stormed Dublin's largest cinema, the Savoy, in O'Connell-strect, where the film of the…

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Menaced by Floods Serious Plight Of Towns Plans Made for Relief Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 December 1934 · page 5

While the floodwaters are receding rapidly throughout Gippsland and in the Yarra Valley near Melbourne, leaving behind amazing scenes of…

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Storm Brings 'Hoppers Invasion in City Last Night Bait. Offered Pastoralists

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 December 1934 · page 13

The high winds last night were reponsible for a big invasion of grasshoppers in the city, and citizens were greatly inconvenienced in the main…

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Storm Brings 'Hoppers Invasion in City Last Night Bait Offered Pastoralists

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 December 1934 · page 1

The high winds last night were responsible for a big invasion of grasshoppers in the city, and citizens were greatly inconvenienced, in the main…

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Goulburn River Floods Farming Lands

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 December 1934 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A large area of rich farming land was inundated last night, when the Goulburn River burst through the levee banks…

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