Floods in Fiji Heavy Damage to Cane Crops
SUVA, Monday:--A report from [?]a states that during recent gales the river rose 20 feet. The flood waters entered Rarawai mill, while excessive…
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Floods & storms, 1933
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Floods in Fiji Four Persons Drowned
SUVA, Thursday:--Floods at Sigatoka resulted in four deaths, two of the victims being Fijians and two In[?]. Thirty inches of rain fell…
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There are heavy floods in the northern and western districts of Viti Levu. The Colonial Sugar Company's offices at Sigatoka have been washed away…
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BRISBANE, Sunday:—At 3 a.m. on Saturday a cyclone struck Mount Larcom with terrific force, driving the rain before it. Many houses were…
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Many houses at Mount Larcom, in Rockhampton district, were flooded on Saturday, when a cyclone swept the town. Many outhouses and sheds were…
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CASINO, Monday:--A cyclonic storm struck: Dyrabba settlement, just before dusk on Sunday. Several buildings were badly damaged, crops ruined,…
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BYRON BAY, Monday:-- Torrential rains have fallen throughout the Brunswick, Byron Bay and Bangalow districts. The downpour…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fear of Flood Heavy Rain Continues on Tweed Main Roads Blocked
Torrential rain beating down over all the Tweed yesterday had raised flood fears in many localities last night. At Bilambil the creeks had risen many feet, and residents on the flats were preparing to evacuate their homes before…
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Torrential rain has fallen in some areas of the watershed of the Richmond River, and the river at Lismore was rising steadily last night. All the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crumpled Up Under Storm Graphic Story of Airship Disaster WASHINGTON
"There will not be any more big airships built. We hava limit three and lost two said the chairman of the House Naval Committee. (Mr. Vinson), referring to the tragic loss of the United States naval dirigible Akron, which dropped…
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A flood complex settled on Murwillumbah as day dawned amid streaming curtains of rain, with every circumstance symtomatic of…
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The usual controversy arose in Murwillumbah yesterday on the heights of the major floods in the town's history and the customary…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday:-- Minor flooding occurred in many parts of the South Coast to-day following torrential rain. Falls from four to 11 inches…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Timely Cessation of Rain on Tweed Flood Minimised Murwillumah Shops Invaded Districtwide Traffic Paralysis
An alarming rise in the river and reports of torrential rain in the top-end of the district gave rise to fears of a great inundation at Murwillumbah and over the Lower Tweed yesterday…
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The river rose about 13 feet at Condong, but late yesterday afternoon had commenced to fall. Water Was running across the main road 18 inches…
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Residents in the benefited area on the northern side of the river at, Murwillumbah were loud in their, praise yesterday of the success of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Flood Waters in Murwillumbah Tweed River Quickly Rose and Fell "Good Fresh" in Richmond River
An alarming rise in the river and the reports of torrential rain in the upper reaches of the river had given rise to fears of a big flood at Murwillumbah by mid-day yesterday. Fortunately the river ceased to rise, and by mid-afternoon was rapidly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →North Coast Deluged Torrential Rains. Flood on the Tweed
The rain which set in lightly on Sunday night, increased in intensity on Monday and continued steadily throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, finally clearing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quick Return to Normal Tweed Conditions Sea and Wind Helped Flood to Clear
Few floods in the history of the Tweed have subsided as quickly as Wednesday's heavy inundation, conditions having returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Serious Flood Feared Hawkesbury Rising South Coast May Suffer, Too
SYDNEY, Thursday:—With the river rising a foot an hour and already three feet of the January flood level of 18 feet at Windsor,…
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