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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1935

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French Wines New Government Decree Check Flooding of Market Paris, August 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 8

To check the flooding of the market with inferior wines, the French Government has issued a decree for the affixing of green labels on vintage wines…

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Menaced by Floods Large Areas in Gippsland Swirling Rivers Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 7

The Gippsland flood position is serious, particularly at Traralgon where about 20 farms, which were abandoned on Saturday and Sunday,…

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Gippsland Floods Settlers Leave Homes Snow Water Off Highlands Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 August 1935 · page 7

The Gippsland district, which was inundated last Easter in again in the grip of floods. Heavy falls of snow on the mountains have caused water to pour…

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Dust Storms Advancing Upon Coastal Area Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 8

The highest 9 a.m. temperature since last April was recorded at the Weather Bureau to-day, when the thermometer…

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Houses Struck by Lightning Severe Storm in N.Z. AUCKLAND

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 August 1935 · page 9

Houses were struck by lightning and the ground was shaken violently by a terrific blast of thunder during a severe storm at Rewarau, Opouriao…

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Damage in Valley New Zealand Thunderstorm Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 9

A message from Auckland states that considerable damage was done by a thunderstrom that broke over the Opeuria Valley…

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20 People Killed Floods Sweep Japanese Towns TOKIO, August 11

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 August 1935 · page 7

Torrential rains flooded 60,000 houses at Osaka, and 10,000 at Kyoto. Twenty people were killed, and 30 seriously injured…

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Serious Floods in Japan Many Killed and Injured Tokio

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 August 1935 · page 1

Torrential rains have flooded 80,00 houses in Osaka and 10,000 at Kyoto So far, 20 people have been killed and 30 seriously injured…

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Dodging Storms Doherty's Daring Launch Trip Reaches Tasmania St.helens (Tas.)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 8

While my friends in Sydney were apparently becoming anxious about me and "the Pup" we were sheltering on Vansittart Island-fortunate…

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Village Populations Vanish In Italian Flood Frantic Search for Bodies Goes on Helpless Victims Had No Chance Old People Were Taken Ovada (Italy)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 August 1935 · page 1

Though the full extent of the flood disaster, which befell the town of Ovada and its nearby villages, cannot yet be determined, it is known that the entire populations of some villages down the valley are missing…

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Was Tied to Tree How Child Survived Flood GENOA

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 August 1935 · page 1

Among the most pathetic stories of the Ovada flood disaster is that of a peasant, who, caught hi the fields near Chiaie, took up his little daughter in his arms, climbed a tree and tied the child in the branches. He then went borne to rescue his wife, but the house…

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Drowning Feared Yacht Capsizes in Gale Found Without Owner Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1935 · page 11

In the worst gale within memory of fishermen at Corimella, a 20ft. yacht capsized in Westernport Bay yesterday, and Malcolm Albon, 20,…

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Pathetic Story Italian Flood Disaster Little Girl Tied to Tree (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1935 · page 12

Among the most pathetic stories of the flood disaster at Ovada, in Italy, is that of a peasant, who caught in the fields near Chiaie, took up his little daughter in…

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Fierce Storms in New Zealand Auckland

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 August 1935 · page 8

Fierce storms are lashing the North Island. There are 12ft. of snow at the chateau at Tongariro, and lightning has played havoc with electric…

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Severe Storms in New Zealand Heavy Snow and Fierce Rain Auckland

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 10

Unprecedented electrical storms are lashing Auckland province. Terrific thunder is rattling windows, and fierce rain is causing heavy stock…

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Flood Damage Severe Weather in N.Z. Shipping Buffeted Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 7

The North Island is gripped by storms of great severity. Snow is falling in the mountainous regions, and the chateau at Tongariro is surrounded to a depth of…

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Desire for Cloth Wild Natives Sudden Flood Peril

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 August 1935 · page 13

THESE natives are most engaging traders with an astonishing desire for cloth," says Assistant Magistrate J. G. Hides in his diary on the long, dangerous exploration trek through unknown parts of wildest…

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Floods in Naples Naples

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 August 1935 · page 1

Eleven persons have been drowned in floods after fire boors of torrential rain…

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Japanese Killed Floods and Landslides TOKIO, August 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 August 1935 · page 7

Fifty-two people were killed and 75 injured at Owani, North Japan in floods and landslides, consequent on the heaviest rains for 50 years…

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Gale on Atlantic Coast Fishing Craft and Seaplanes Wrecked St. Johns (Newfoundland)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 August 1935 · page 1

Death and destruction went with a 60 miles an hour sale that swept the sonth-eastern coast of Newfoundland during the week-end…

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