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Murray · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1935

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Tumut's First Snow for 36 Years Gales Damage Melbourne Bay-side

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 4

Heavy snow, covering the ground to a depth of several inches, fell at Tumut on Sunday. The equivalent of nine inches of snow was registered…

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Floods on South Coast

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 19 April 1935 · page 4

During heavy floods which followed torrential rains of the week-end, car[?]traffic and several telephone lines were interfered with at Bega. Campers on…

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Gippsland Floods Vast Areas Under Water Houses Menaced Melbourne, Saturday

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 1

Heavy rain during the past few days has flooded several rivers in Gippsland some of which have broken their banks and flooded…

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Trail of Ruin Flood Waters leave Stories of Heroic Rescues MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 1

Throughout Gippsland to-day the flood waters were subsiding. leaving behind them a trail of ruin…

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“Redeemed by Hitler” Germany’s Calvary Play Pauses Storm London, April 23

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 5

The “Daily Telegraph” Berlin correspondent says that in the Theatre of the People on Good Friday, a special performance, was given of the…

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Flood Damage Waters Subsiding More Rain May Bring Danger MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 1

The flooded rivers in Gippsland continued to subside to-day, but more heavy rain, which has fallen may cause the danger to…

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Seaplane in Storm Head Winds on Home Journey ALAMADA April 23

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 April 1935 · page 2

The. sea plane Clipper, which Is to De used in e service between America and the East has reached here after being delayed by continuous head…

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Flood Victims Several Still Homeless Farms Submerged Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 April 1935 · page 1

As the flood waters subside in Gippsland it is becoming possible to make a review of the damage. It is estimated that the area affected…

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Mathoura News Monday Heavy Rain

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 April 1935 · page 1

Further heavy rain fell on Sunday afternoon, half, an inch being recorded in the quarter of an hour, Mr. Alex Glenn, who drove in from Thyra, said…

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Floods Secede And Families Return Cabinet to Discuss Finance and Losses Arising out of Deluge MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 April 1935 · page 1

Flood waters are fast draining from the rich farm lands in East Gippsland. and the position is almost normal at Bairnsdale…

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Man's Ordeal in Snow-storm Carried on Stretches Through Blizzard

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 April 1935 · page 46

When a motor cycle and sidecar skidded in the snow on the Alpine road at Hothan Heights (Vic.) and rolled into the Diamantina Valley two…

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Floods in Victoria Gippsland Farming Centres Isolated

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 26 April 1935 · page 40

Following heavy rain over Easter, Eastern Gippsland is in the grip of floods again, and many farming contres are isolated. Flood waters from the…

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Gippsland Floods. Water Slowly Receding. MELBOURNE

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 26 April 1935 · page 3

The Gippsland floods are slowly receding, but large areas are still inundated. At Sale, a number of people are still…

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Coping with Flood Menaces State Cabinet Inquiries Premier’s Comments Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 April 1935 · page 1

Advices received by the Premier to-day indicate that the damage wrought by the latest floods in the Gippsland district was not so severe…

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In Flooded Mine Three Men Rescued Had Been Imprisoned for 3½ Days JOHANNESBURG , April 28

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 April 1935 · page 4

After having been imprisoned for 3½ days, a miner W Anderson and two natives were found alive on the fifteenth level of the New…

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Another Deluge Rivers Rise Again Rain Record Likely Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 April 1935 · page 2

The week-end deluge brought the month’s rain registration to within 27 points of last April’s record total of 568 points More…

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Items of News a Violent Thunder Storm

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 April 1935 · page 2

A violent thunderstorm occurred at Springhurst on Sunday night Some vivid lightning accompanied the exceptionally loud claus of…

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Flood Danger Recurs 292 Points of Rain Record for 34 YEARS Rivers Rise Rapidly MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 May 1935 · page 5

Accompanied by a heavy sale, rain fell over Victoria again last night and this morning, [?] with it a renewal of the dauger…

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Dust Storm Diseases in U.S. Further Loss of Nine lives Many Cases Op Measles Kansas City, April 30

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 May 1935 · page 5

Diseases aggravated -by dust storms have taken nine lives during the past week. Six thousand cases of measles are reported in the south-western…

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Flood-lightning in London London, May 1

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 May 1935 · page 1

Large crowds yesterday evening saw Buckingham Palace and the Victoria memorial flood-lit in preparation for Jubilee week…

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