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Floods & storms, 1921

1,026 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 52

The Census. Collection Delayed by Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 9

Whilst the collection of census papers is proceeding quite as satisfactorily as was anticipated in the metropolitan area, delays have occuired in country districts owing to the…

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New Guinea. Development Under the Mandate. Colonel Flood Hopeful

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 9

Colonel J. W. Flood, who since May, 1919, has been chief medical officer at Rabaul, is satisfied there are great industrial possibilities before what was formerly known as…

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Saved from the Storm

Evening News · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 1

The steamer Sealark which reached Port Jackson yesterday after a [?] voyage from Tasmania During the storm off the N.S.W. coast last week she [?] short of [?] and broke down, and was its danger of being lost when she was [?] by the Meribula…

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Newcastle Turf Notes Racecourses Flooded and Races Postponed Boolaroo Meeting Endangered

Referee · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 7

With the roads from West Maitland to Heddon Greta blocked to vehicular traffic by tracts of flood water, and the low-lying portions of the racecourse…

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Flooded Pits. Direct Action in Fife

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 11

The West Fire strikers on Sunday night applied direct action by drawing the fires to prevent pumping at Blackall colliery. The policearrived too late to stop this, but will prevent…

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Coal Negotiations. Triple Alliance Aggressive. Forty Pits Flooded. London, April 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 11

The minors and colliery proprietors are conferring in an endeavour to settle the strike. Mr. Lloyd George announced that the Government would not subsidise the industry out of taxes or abrogate the order abolishing control…

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Topical Talk. Concerning Floods

The Australian Worker · Thursday 14 April 1921 · page 10

"Gil.": The heavy rains outback recall lories of the big Bourke flood of Old Bourkeites will tell you that own never did any good worth men-…

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Stud Rame Drowned. The Cyclone on the Queensland Coast

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 10

Upwards of three hundred stud-rams that were being conveyed to Townsville (Q.) were drowned or washed overboard during the fierce cyclone…

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The Census Man in a Storm. a Trying Experience

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 10

The N.S.W. South Coast was swept by a terrible gale during the latter part of last week, and the census collector for Montague Island had a…

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Swept to Death the Fatal Flood Gates Tragedy at Manly

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 10

An eleven-year-old boy named Matthew J[?] was the victim of a dis[?]rossing tragedy at Curl Curl (Sydney) beach on Sunday afternoon. The little…

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(Published by Arrangement). Lawless Liquor. Floods of It in New York

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 1

Mr. Doots Pickett, Research Secretary of the Board of Temperance of the Mothodist Episcopal Church, has been giving some of his experiences to the…

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Flood Levels River Water in Mains GOULBURN

Evening News · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 4

The City Council is still experiencing trouble with the sewerage whenever the Mulwaree River rises a few feet. Reporting on the matter at the last…

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Tempestuous Passage. Kairanga in a Cyclone

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 April 1921 · page 4

WELLINGTON, Saturday.--The Union Company's steamer Kairanga arrived here to-day from Newcastle after a tempestuous passage. The Kalranga ran into a cyclone the day she…

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Terrific Gale Lugger Totally Wrecked Hazardous Dingy Journey MACKAY

The Sun · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 6

A dingy containing four Japanese arrived at Mackay on Saturday night after what must have been a hazardous journey of about 125 miles. The…

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Storm Centre. in the Pacific Mr. Massey Predicts Another War. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 9

Speaking in Auckland on the eve of his departure for England, Mr. Massey (Prime Minister) said:— "One of the most important matters to be…

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Heavy Rain on North Coast. Over an Inch Recorded

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 April 1921 · page 7

Heavy rain has been recorded on the north coast, the fails there being mostly over an inch; elsewhere over the State fine weather was experienced…

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Storm Troops To Attack Prickly Pear Bugs Arrive in Sydney

Evening News · Wednesday 20 April 1921 · page 5

The Commonwealth Government has declared war on the [?] and storm troops—[?] arrived at Sydney on the [?]…

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The Teacup, the Storm, and the Lesson

The Sun · Thursday 21 April 1921 · page 6

"The tumult and the shouting dies" from the Federal political teacup. The country is saved. Virtue is triumphant, and villainy foiled. Mr. Hughes is still Prime Minister. The public, which has the vaguest notion of what it is all about, goes…

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After the Storm. The Re-establishment of Fruit Trees

Nepean Times · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 4

There are possibly other orchardists in the position of the grower who addressed the following inquiry to the Department of Agriculture recently:—…

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Cyclone in the North. Possible Loss of Life. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 April 1921 · page 7

News has been received by the Treasury Department from the Acting Harbour Master at Cooktown, respecting the cyclone in the north. Information was received from Captain…

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