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Hunter Valley · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

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Broadbent Delayed at Rangoon Forced Back by Storms

Singleton Argus · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 6

The Australian airman, Mr. H. F. Broadbent, who is attempting to establish a record for a flight from Australia to England, left Singapore at 1.45 a.m…

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Stock Killed in Storm Auckland, Thursday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1937 · page 4

A severe electrical storm occurred in the Auakland province, Some live stock were struck by lightning four valuable down being killed on a farm…

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Storm Raised. Muswellbrook Football Ground Question Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1937 · page 11

The decision of the Show Committee to allow Sunday play on the showground has created intense interest, the expression of approval…

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New Flood Boat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1937 · page 7

Bolwarra Shire Council at its meeting to-day decided to accept the tender of Towns Bros., of Mayfield, at £25/15/ for a new flood boat at Phoenix Park…

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Flood Damage in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 May 1937 · page 7

Considerable damage has been done in parts of the country as a result of heavy rain. Extensive losses of stock ate reported from…

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Isolated Thunderstorms Probable

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 1

N.S.W. Forecast: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers in southern and eastern districts, and a tendency to isolated thunderstorms otherwise…

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Fifty Dead, Many Injured in Disastrous Polish Floods Warsaw, May 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 1

Fifty people have last their lives so far in devastating floods which are sweeping Central Poland, and hundreds have been…

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Floods in Poland a Heavy Deathroll

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 3

There is a heavy deathroll and hundreds have been injured by floods which are sweeping Central. Poland Fifty villages are submerged, and others…

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Blown Off Course Gales Batter Barquentine SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 1

With an amateur crew, comprising men of many occupations, the 200 ten barquentine, Cap Pilar, reached Sydney this morning 46 days out from…

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Further Heavy Rain Expected

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 1

N.S.W. Forecoast More or less cloudy generally, fine in parts, but further heavy fails conductive to flooding on the north and central…

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Heavy Rain North Coast Seven inches at Comboyne Further Falls Likely

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 5

Showery weather, continued during yesterday and to-day, a further 34 points being registered at the West Maitland Telegraph Office up to 9 o'clock this morning…

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Cyclonic Conditions. Eastward Movement. Flood Danger Passed. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 2

The cyclonic conditions which prevailed along the New South Wales coast yesterday have moved eastward and are now over the Tasman Sea…

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Wedding Flood-byrnes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1937 · page 3

A wedding of great interest to a largo circle of friends in Maitland and Sydney was celebrated with a Nuptial Mass, at St, John'H Pro-Cathedral on…

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Rain Coming Westerly Disturbance Cyclone Features Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 June 1937 · page 7

The State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, stated to-day that more rain could be expected over the State within the next few days…

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Storms With Heavy Rain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 1

N.S.W. Forcoast: More or less unsettled, with further rain in the western Inland areas, gradually extending generally in the next day or…

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Storms Sweep the Coast Heavy Rain Over Wide Area Fierce Gale Rages in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 4

Cyclonic storms at the week-end deluged the central coastal areas of the State with incessant rain, as much as seven inches falling on several parts of the Sydney water supply catchment area. The rain has relieved all fears of a water…

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Flood Rains South Coast Deluge 'Omega's Plight

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 5

The worst flooding occurred at Omega, between Klama and Gerringong, the Prince's Highway at one time being submerged to a depth of…

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Heavy Seas Shipping Buffeted Intense Cyclone Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 1

From midnight until late to-day, no ships departed from Sydney. Wireless messages from vessels at sea reported terrible conditions…

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Torrential Rain Over Week-end Flood Conditions Expected in Rivers South of Hunter Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 2

Mr Mares, State Meteorologist, said to-day he expected flood conditions in the rivers south of the Hunter, following torrential rain over the week-end…

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Heavy Rain Coastal Areas Deluged

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 2

The central coast of New South Wales was soaked with incessant rain as the result of a cyclonic storm at the week-end…

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