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Riverina · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1930

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Unemployed Storm Bakery Bread Stolen Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1930 · page 8

About 100 unemployed stormed the bakery premises owned by Hennessy's Ltd. at Brunswick to-day and stole 20 leaves of bread…

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Flood Lights

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 24 October 1930 · page 4

Retired up in the city, I had never seen a flood kept a swe[?]hr of the mighty Salt-pan Creek…

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No Postponement Unless More Heavy Rain Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 October 1930 · page 7

Although the Rosebery pony meeting set down for to-morrow has been postponed, the Canterbury Park races will be…

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Storm in Melbourne Dust and High Wind Electric Wires Blown Down Roof of Cricket Ground Stand Torn Off Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 November 1930 · page 6

A peculiar storm passed over Melbourne to-night. Heavy dust and wind blowing at a velocity of 44 miles an hour, occasioed considerable damage,…

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Loss of R101 Gale Ridden Out at Mast Trial Flight Satisfactory LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 November 1930 · page 2

At the inquiry into the loss of the airship R101 Air Marshall Sir John Higgins mentioned the occasion when the airship was at the mast at…

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Severe Gale Damage in Melbourne

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 November 1930 · page 6

A severe gale, carrying clouds of Mallee dust, rages over Melbourne for six hours on Monday evening, followed by an hour's rain…

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Furious Gale Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 November 1930 · page 11

A furious gale was experienced in New South Wales throughout yesterday and last night, and the wind at times reached 55 miles an hour. It…

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Bain and Snow in South Gale on the Coast Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1930 · page 4

Yesterday scattered light ram was recorded on the Southern Highlands and in south-eastern Riverina. Snow was reported on the far southern…

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Furious Cyclone Burma Ports in Ruins Courts Razed Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 November 1930 · page 1

A beap of twisted iron is all that remains of the bazaar of the seaport, Kyaukpu, in the Arakan district of Lower Burma, as the result of a…

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Gale Strikes Metropolitan Area Considerable Damage Caused Sidney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 2

A Westerly gale struck the city and suburbs this afternoon causing considerable damage in some places. A number of small craft on the harbor…

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Gales in the North Station Blown Onto Line Damage at Werris Creek Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 2

Sweeping through the Wallangarra district at 80 m.p.h. a gale wrought havoc among small building and tre[?] yesterday afternoon…

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American Cyclone 23 KILLED; 100 Injured Oklahoma

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 1

Twenty-three persons were killed and 100 injured on Wednesday when a tornado wiped out the village of Bethany. The school and 100 buildings…

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Honolulu Flood Eight Bodies Recovered Honoludu

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 1

Eight bodies were recovered and 20 are missing and believed to be dead, as the result of a flood tearing into the city late on Tuesday from the…

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Whole States Buried Northern U.S.A. Storms Snow Causes Hardship and Death Chicago

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 November 1930 · page 1

The Western United States, from the Rockies to Nebraska, have been buried deep in snow. Five lives are known to have been lost, and many…

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Heavy Gales Sweep Western Europe Many Floods; Shipping Hampered LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 25 November 1930 · page 1

Great gales and terrific storms raged over the whole of Western Europe, involving floods and destruction of property. High winds on the British…

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Heavy Gale Sweeps Fiji Group Native Villages Razed Suva

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 November 1930 · page 1

A heavy gale in the Fiji group on Sunday afternoon and night caused a lot of damage. Suva was not damaged. The centre of the storm was…

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The Weather Heavy Rain in Wagga Some Considerable Falls

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 2

About 1.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon a heavy thunderstorm broke over Wagga, when a downpour of rain quickly flooded the stormwater…

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Battered by Storm Swedish Vessel on Reef British Cruiser to Rescue Hong Kong

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 2

The H.M.S. Storm Cloud located the Swedish vessel, Hedwig, which was breaking up on Pratas Reef, as it was being battered by a storm…

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Heavy Rain Cootamundra Gets 120 Points in Half-hour

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon heavy, rain fell in Cootamundra—120 points in half an hour. The street gutters ran bankers for a while…

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Severe Storm. in Marrar District

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 2

Muggy condition on Wednesday afternoon [?]in a sever [?]which [?]over Marrar, [?]212 points of runs were register…

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