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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

15 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

Floods Likely Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 1

Heavy rain has been recorded in the coastal areas during the past 24 hours, and, according to Mr. Mares, meteorlogist, floods are likely to follow,…

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Disastrous Storm

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7

Messages from Kearsley to-day state that the local unemployed are raking the debris of homes laid waste in Saturday night's storm…

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Terrific Storm Four Killed in Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 2

Four persons were killed and more than 200 injured when a violent storm swept over the metropolitan area just before four o’clock yesterday afternoon…

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Latest Cable News the U.s.a. Floods

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

CHICAGO, Wednesday.—The total of known dead in the flood areas is now 137, while homeless number at least 800,000. Damage to property is…

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U.S.A. FLOODS City Endangered CHICAGO

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 1

Lashed by the wind and a swift current, waves to-day broke over the lower rampart of the 60ft. seawall at Cairo, Illinois, and hammered ominously on…

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Heavy Rain 17 Inches at Bellingen SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 February 1937 · page 1

Further heavy rain fell on parts of the North Coast yesterday, and in the past 48 hours Bellingen has received 17 inches. Yesterday’s fall at this centre…

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Storms Likely Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1937 · page 4

Mr. Mares, meteorologist, received a message this morning that a severe cyclone is centred about 200 miles off the far-North Coast, and is…

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Disastrous Cyclone

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 2

A message from Darwin states that practically the whole town was severely damaged by a terrific cyclone this morning, one death so far…

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Heavy Rain in Dry Northwest

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1937 · page 7

Heavy rain was recorded in the dry north-west of N.S.W. during the week-end, relieving fears of a water shortage and assuring winter…

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Young Pilot Killed ’Plane Crashes in Gale

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 August 1937 · page 3

Patrick Joseph Perry, aged 22, of St. Kilda, was killed instantly at Fishermen’s Bend, Victoria, on Sunday, when a small, home-made aeroplane, which…

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The MAN from the Gulf Chapter XI.—(Continued) Two Women in a Flood

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 4

Nevertheless, the black curtain of si[?]ence he drew over his life from the time he had gone out into the world to work for himself baffled her, and…

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Local and General Heavy Rain

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1937 · page 2

Following the beneficial rains of last week a heavy thunderstorm developed on Saturday afternoon, the rain coming down in torrents for a…

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Disaste Floods

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 2

DAMASCUS 1000 are dead and 10,000 as a result of floods which fled terrific rains. Several village are destroyed…

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Disastrous Storms

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 2

During terrific storms in many parts of the State yesterday considerable damage was done. At South Grafton hundreds of windows were…

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Terrific Storm Streets Flooded At Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 31 December 1937 · page 1

Following the humid and unsettled weather which prevailed over the Christmas holidays heavy clouds around the horizon presaged further storms on…

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