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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1930

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Storm at Albury

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 2

A violent storm caused severe damage at the Albury Show end in parts of the town ion Wednesday. Tents of scroplanes, one the property of a…

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Missing Launch Safe at Post Kembla Missed the Storm Port Kembla

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 2

A launch, with J. Wilkinson on board, which it was feared was lost in the gale on Tuesday, has been located at Port Kembla, where it arrived…

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Terrific Wind Storm Tears Path Through Suburbs Tremendous Damage Caused. Picture Theatre Ruined, Crops Damaged

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 7

Tearing a path through many City suburbs, a terrific wind storm follwed by a heavy fall of bail caused thousands of pounds worth of…

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22 Inches of Rain in 24 Hours Bombay Deluge Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 September 1930 · page 4

Damage amounting to nearly £400,000 was done when Bombay was deluged by heavy rains yesterday. Over 22 inches of rain fell in 24 hours…

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Benzine Burglars Take Shell, But Don't Shell Out. Fill Their Car in a Flood of Light and Float Away

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 3

Last Sunday night week, about 8 o'clock, two men in a Baby Austin utility truck brought their vehicle to a standstill in front of the Shell Oil…

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English Channel Swept by Gales Shipping Hampered Air Liner's Battle London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 2

Gales all day yesterday made the English Channel impassable except for the strongest and latest steamers. Many turned bark, including the…

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Fierce Gale Sydney Swept Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 4

Sydney was struck by a fierce gale to-day, the velocity of the wind at times exceeding 50 miles an hour…

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Brittany Fishing Fleet Rattered by Storm 18 Men Dead Concarneau

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 September 1930 · page 1

Many of the Brittany fishing smacks which were fearfully battered by the storm continue to return to port. There are pathetic scenes as the women scan…

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Gales Off Brittany 37 Fishermen Perish Paris

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 1

Thirty-seven fishermen are so far known to have perished in the gale, off the coast of Brittany. Many vessels of the fishing fleet are still missing…

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Indian Floods 50,000 Acres Inundated £1,500,000 Damage Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 September 1930 · page 4

The immensity of floods in the Sind district is only now being discovered. The floods have only now subsided, after the countryside had…

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Terrific Gales New Zealand Swept Much Damage Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 October 1930 · page 1

During the last few days New Zealand has been swept by gales of unprecedented violence. Huge hailstones have damaged crops, and sheep…

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Flood in Mexico 50 Persons Missing Mexico City

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 9 October 1930 · page 1

Fifty persons are missing from Pachuca, following a flood caused by a cloudburst which overflowed the river. Pachuca, a silver mixing city, is the…

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Loss of the R101 Experts Seek Cause of Crash Design of Airship Criticised Messages of Sympathy Flood Britaix

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 October 1930 · page 5

An expert inquiry was opened at Beauvais on the Monday into the crash of the air liner R101, when 46 lives were lost…

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Flood Warning Murray and Murrumbidgee Heavy Rain Expected

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 October 1930 · page 12

The Postmaster at Wagga, Mr. M. Crossin this morning deceived the following advice from the Weather Bureau:--…

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Where's the Flood ? Wild Water Rumors

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 October 1930 · page 2

In Gundagai on Saturday afternoon almost every second person could tell of how we were "going to have a flood."…

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No Flood at Tumut River Not as High as Last Week

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 October 1930 · page 3

At Tumut at noon to-day the river was with in its banks, and, although the rain there has been heavy, the flood waters have all got well away…

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British Labor Effect of Tariff Storm LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 15 October 1930 · page 1
Also in Daily Advertiser

The Labor correspondent of the "Morning Post," reviewing the Labor conference at Liandudno last week, says:—…

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The River Falling No Chance of a Flood

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 October 1930 · page 3

There are still people who are waiting for a flood—they evidently belong to the clan which started the story about Gundagai having eight…

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Murray Rising Floods Feared in South Australia Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 October 1930 · page 1

Aa a result of heavy rains the Murray River is rising rapidly and the big[?]ood [?] years is indicated…

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