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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1935

384 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 20

Hail and Rain Lavington Visitation a Severe Storm

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 2

A very heavy rain and hall storm, which passed over Laving at 4.30 o'clock yesterday noring gave 61 points of rain…

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Town Is Flooded Families Are Rescued Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 September 1935 · page 2

The Onkaparinga river overflowed its banks to-day, flooding most of the town of Noarlunga, 20 miles south of Adelaide. The floodwaters swirled…

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Adelaide Floods Subside Fifty Families Homeless Danger Passes Adelaide

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 5

The flood waters at Noarlunga and Port Noarlunga on the Onkaparinga river subsided almost as quickly as they rose and danger is past Comparatively…

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Floods Expected Stock Owners Warned Wangaratta

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 September 1935 · page 2

Indications point to floods in the Ovens and King rivers to-morrow at Wangaratta. At Bowman’s to-day the Ovens river stood at 13ft, 6in.,…

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Gale Rages in Channel Extensive Damage Done Four Lives Are Lost London, September 17

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 September 1935 · page 6

Four lives have been lost two by drowning at sea, and two by injury from falling objects during a gala which has been raging…

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Gale in England. London

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 1

Four lives have been lost, two by drowning at sea and two by injury from falling objects, during a gale which has been raging over the…

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Scrap-Book Original Poem a Storm at Sea

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 21

HARK to the sound of the incoming tide, See the waves beckoning to me, Hear how they groan in dreadful pain…

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Good Rains Throughout Riverina Crop Prospects Bright Flood Feared in Murray

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 6

Rain of a most beneficial nature fell throughout Riverina from Friday to Tuesday, and the seasonal outlook has been greatly improved. The rain was…

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Man Drowned in Goulburn River Swept Away by Flood Waters Tatura

Border Morning Mail · Friday 20 September 1935 · page 1

Slipping from the bank into the flood swollen waters of the Goulburn river at Murchison North to-day, A. H. Colliver, 55, a Tatura road…

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Gales in England Unwanted Entrant Ruins Show! Heavy Seas in Channel London, September 19

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 21 September 1935 · page 4

Continued high winds have done much damage in various parts of the country to-day. At the Thames show in Oxfordshire—the largest…

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Scattered Storms Forecast

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 September 1935 · page 2

N.S.W. Forecast: At first fine and mild in eastern areas with morning mists and logs, but cloud increasing generally over the State with…

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Holbrook Shire Councillors Meet £1000 Grant for Flood Damage

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 9

At the monthly meeting of the Holbrook Shire Council those present were: Crs. F. W. Nolan (President), J. R. Ross, A. Robert McLaurin, G. C…

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Gales in Jamaica Kingston (Jamaica), September 27

Border Morning Mail · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 1

Gales up to 60 miles an hour, feared to be the forerunners of a hurricane swept Jamaica to-day. It is estimated that 2,000,000 banana…

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Serious Clashes Memel Elections Sequel German Voters Storm Polling Booths LONDON, September 30

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 3

The inadequacy of the polling arrangements in connection with the Memel elections resulted in a serious dash, in the frontier town…

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The Illuminations Festoons and Floodlights

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 2

NAPIER, Cressy and End streets were gaily illuminated with long festoons of colored light, and many floodlights were also utilised to show up the Town…

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Yesterday's Storms. Dust in the West. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 1

A severe dust storm raged in Broken Hill, yesterday, from mid-day until evening, and artificial lighting had to be resorted to…

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Sick Child Flown Through Storm Mountain-tops Skimmed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 28

After flying through a storm raging over the Blue Mountains in order that a sick child in his 'plane might receive special treatment in the Royal…

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Ketch Rides Out Gale Record Start Crossing Launceston

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 2

Riding out a heavy gale, the auxiliary ketch Mileeta reached Burnie early today, 17 hours 53 minutes out from Melbourne a record crossing for…

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5½ Million Homeless Aftermath of China Floods Nanking, October 5

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 7

Five and a half million people are homeless as a result of the recent widespread floods in the Hopel, Honan, and Shantung regions, and…

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Floods and Drought. Parts of China Stricken Pitiable Conditions Peking, October 8

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 October 1935 · page 2

Thousands more lives have been lost in floods in Northern Kiangsu. The TOWN OF Machengan has been submerged, and…

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