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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1935

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Heavy Damage. W.A. Cyclone 100 Missing Perth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 3

A Broome message state's that 40 persons are known to have been drowned in the cyclone of last week, and over 100 are still missing…

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Severe Storm Damage at Gbulburn GOULBURN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 4

Roads were damaged, fences washed away, and traffic held up for several hours ac the result of a particularly severe thunderstorm which broke…

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Stopped by Storm General Booth's Car GOULBURN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 5

General Evangeline Booth had an unenviable experience when she was caught in a storm. She was travelling from Goulburn by car at the time, and…

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Twenty Dead Motor Car Crashes Flood Victims Los Angeles, April 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 April 1935 · page 1

Ten railway men were killed to-day when a light motor car in which they were riding crashed into a gravel train on the…

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"Storm in Tea Cup."

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 3

The P.M. Let us get on It seems to me to be a storm in a tea cup. Don't waste anytime. Edna Saxby, daughter of informant…

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Storm Danger Helpful Advice LONDON, February 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 April 1935 · page 3

Mr. Sidney T.B. Dark, vice-president, of the South London Botanical institute, lecturing on Saturday at the Horniman Museum. Forest Hill,…

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Storm in Sydney Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1935 · page 1

Damage, estimated at £1000, was caused during a storm carly this morning when it fireball stuck a house at Centennial Park…

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Fierce Storm Lashes Sou'-West Coast Victoria 'torm High Seas Ketch Wrecked Bell Rung ' MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1935 · page 1

The south-western coast of Victoria was lashed by a violent storm form 1 a.m. to-day until dawn, which…

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Floods Are Feared in South Rivers Heavy Rain Traffic Held Up Snowfalls Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 April 1935 · page 1

Floods are likely on the far south coast and highlands and river systems, including the upper Murrumbidgee…

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Damage Caused by Cyclone Federal Cabinet Grants £5000. CANBERRA

Singleton Argus · Monday 15 April 1935 · page 2

The Federal Cabinet to-day decided to make a grant of £5000 to assist the sufferers from the pearling fleet disaster near Broome, where 120 lives were…

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Victorian Gales Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 April 1935 · page 7

Intensely cold south-westerly winds, blowing at 36 miles an hour, have swept rain and hall squalls across the southern half of Victoria…

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Largs a Sharp Storm LARGS

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1935 · page 4

A sharp storm, with hall and rain, passed over last evening. The rain recorded was 35 points. Some of the hall was of the size of…

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Hail Storm Mantle of White No Damage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1935 · page 7

Residents of Maitland will have cause to remember the evening of Good Friday, 1935, for a hall storm broke over the town and…

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Sydney Lucky Just Missed Cyclone Now Off Gabo Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1935 · page 1

The Acting State Meteorologist, Mr. Camm, stated to-day that Sydney had just missed a cyclone, which passed to the south of the metropolis, and…

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Storm Centre Upper Hunter Seat Three Candidates Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1935 · page 4

Nominations for the Upper Hunter seat closed with three candidates, messrs. Malcolm Brown (Country party), J.Wood (A.L.P.)…

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Big Floods Gippsland District Towns Isolated Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 3

Rain, which has been heavy and almost continuous for a week caused floods in many parts of Gippsland in the week-end…

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Storms at Denman Denman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 2

Over 80 points fell here in a series of storms during the holidays, the first fall of any benefit since early February, when 226 points were…

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Obituary Mr. A, V. Flood

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 2

The funeral of Mr. A. y. Flood, of Tea Gardens, who was fatally injured when thrown from a horse near his home on Saturday, took place…

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MAROONED Gippsland Families Big Floods Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 8

The flood position in Gippsland continues to be serious. Practically the whole of the district is covered with flood waters, while…

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Heavy Rain Victorian Floods Acute Danger Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 7

It is anticipated that the flood position at Moc, where heavy rain has fallen, will become worse. Rain is falling in the mountainous…

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