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Mid North Coast · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1934

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Mayfair's Show Week Attractions. Commence To-night. Destruction of the World Shown in "Deluge."

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 3

Realistic scenes of the destruction of modern civilisation by a complete inundation of the world by a mammoth tidal wave, and view of…

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Kempsey Show Second Day Spoiled by Heavy Rain

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 April 1934 · page 2

The Kempsey Show opened on Wednesday, the weather being fairly good for these wet times, with the result that the function was…

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Current Topics. Flooded Roads

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 13 April 1934 · page 2

Mr. J. L. Hogg, who returned from Sydney by car last night, stated that the deviation about six miles from Booral is in a very bad state and…

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Heavy Rain. Mainly Coastal

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 April 1934 · page 8

Rain commenced to fall on Wednesday night right along the coast to the border. For the 24 hours ended Thursday at 9 a.m., Byron Bay had…

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Alluvial Gold Finds After Heavy Rain

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1934 · page 2

Hundreds of men, women, and boys are busily engaged in searching for gold in Kalgoorlie. After the heavy rains had washed away…

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Glorious Transformation After Deluge, Macksville Show Is Held in Perfect Weather

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 2

The twenty-seventh Annual Shew, under the auspices of the Nambucca Agricultural and Horticultural Association, eventuated last Monday and Tuesday, and was particularly notable for a marvellous escape from what threatened to be a bad disaster so far as weather…

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Story of the Flood Confirmed by Scientific Exploration

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 1

Commenting on the fact that, after 12 seasons of careful and scientific exploration, the joint expedition of the British Museum and the…

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Heavy Rains. Floods Forecast Further North

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 4

Following a spell of ideal weather, unsettled conditions again reign over Kempsey and the Macleay Valley. Intermittent showers fell in Kempsey…

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Floods Feared on Far North Coast. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 5

Further heavy rains fell last night on the North Coast, and there is increasing danger of floods in the main rivers north from Coff's Harbor. The…

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Flood Rain

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 2

The following advice was received by the postmaster at Taree from the . Superintendent of Telegraphs yesterday (Tuesday): --…

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Flood [?]

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 16 May 1934 · page 3

From Public [?] Department that if the landing [?] the shire council provided [?] (estimated cost of survey) [?] would…

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Traveller's Trouble During Last Week's Heavy Rain

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 18 May 1934 · page 6

In last Friday's issue of the Dorrigo. "Gazette" a traveller, who signed himself "Barefeet," penned the following :--…

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Flood in Honduras. Boston, 11634

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 12 June 1934 · page 5

The entire community of Cootehegue, British Honduras, was destroyed and 500 persons drowned by a flood, according to a message…

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Great Dust Storm. About 300 Million Tons. New York's Black

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 6 July 1934 · page 3

The residents of New York are breathing freely again. The "black Blizzard," with its pall of dust 1500 miles long and 1000 miles wide…

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Flood Cutting Levels

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 11 July 1934 · page 9

From Upper Belmore P.P.U., asking the Shire to instruct the Engineer to make the necessary levels survey of the flood cutting at Crescent Head…

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Something Like a Dust Storm

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 July 1934 · page 1

N.S.W. in drought years has put up some very decent records in the way of dust storms but nothing to equal the mighty and fearsome affair…

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Tiger and Flood Refugees

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 July 1934 · page 4

The floods in Assam are receding, but many thousands of people are homeless and starving, and there is a grave danger of cholera and smallpox…

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Federal Budget Primage and Gales Tax Relief Concessions of £620,000

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 July 1934 · page 5

The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons) delivered the Federal Budget in the House of Represent[?]ves on Tuesday. Mr. Lyons announced that there…

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Fifty Villages Destroyed. Floods in Poland. [?]0 DEATHS

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 28 July 1934 · page 5

The River Vistula is 19 feet above normal and is still rising. Earth works hove been reinforced and I the evacuation of the…

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Heavy Rain. Manning in Flood

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1934 · page 2

Six hundred and twenty-nine points of rain had been recorded at Wingham Post Office to Monday morning. The Manning, at…

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