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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

935 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 47

Flooded Road

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 5

Mr. T. Johns, of Prospect-street, Canley Vale, complained to tile council of the flooded state of tile eastern portion of George's Hall-road. Parts of this…

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I Balloonist Has Bad Time in Big Storm

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 August 1922 · page 2

LONDON, Friday Night.—Major Valle, an Italian competitor in the Gordon Bennet balloon race, encountered a violent storm when passing over…

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Rod and Line Effects of Mud and Floods the Week's Tides

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 August 1922 · page 11

a.m. p.m. Sunday, August 13 .. .. 11.38 11.59 Monday, August 14 .. .. —- 12.20 Tuesday, August 15 .. .. 12.40 1.11…

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"Waverley Frog Farm" Woollahra Blamed Damage by Flood

Evening News · Tuesday 15 August 1922 · page 5

Woollahra Council last night received a letter from Waverley Council stating that Woollahra would be held responsible for damage to Waverley property…

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Magnetic Storms Solving the Problem Surveys in Pacific

The Sun · Wednesday 16 August 1922 · page 3

In May last year telegraphic communication was interrupted in New South Wales, and a magnetic storm was blamed…

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France's Rights Poincare's Stand Well Supported Mark Collapses Flood of Paper Money Submerges Germany LONDON, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 17 August 1922 · page 1

The French Cabinet has unanimously approved of M. Poincare's attitude at the London Inter-Allied Conference, and declared itself one with him in his…

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Getting Ready for the Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 4

This journal has frequently pointed out the danger that the Federal Government would run by going to the country with the finances in their present…

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Damage by Flood. Shires Seek Grant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 August 1922 · page 9

The shire councils of Monaro and Yarrowlumla, represented by Mr. E. Crisp and Mr. T. J. Kelly, presidents respectively of the two shires, waited upon the Minister for…

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A Storm-proof Aeroplane. King Secretly Built in South of England

The World's News · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 2

Five years of experiment and research have resulted in the evolution of a wonder ful storm-resisting aeroplane. One of these machines is being built with…

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The Whirling Fury From the North Lore of the Tropic Storms That Visit Eastern Australia

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 August 1922 · page 16

ON the early days of navigation on a captain, caught in the dreaded vortex of a cyclone, resigned himself to…

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No Dream City Australia's Real Wealth Flood of Settlers London

The Sun · Sunday 20 August 1922 · page 1

With the recuperative powers of youth the Commonwealth (says "The Times" in an editorial) has made a surprising recovery from financial and…

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Floods and Drought Spell Butter Shortage GRAFTON

Evening News · Monday 21 August 1922 · page 6

[?]oods 12 months ago and the dry autumn are blamed in the half-yearly report of the [?] P[?] Dairy Company and the annual report of the…

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Items From Country Centres Flood Damage Bega

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 August 1922 · page 6

A meeting of farmers on the Bega River discussed the best means of minimising flood damage. Of late years considerable damage has resulted to the…

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Fast Sailing Lizzie Vance in Gale

The Sun · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 5

Although have to for 12 hours in Rasa Strait owing to bad weather, the schooner Lizzie Vance accomplished her trip from Melbourne to Sydney in live days…

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Flooded Lands Tides in Cook's River Fifty Years Inundation

The Sun · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 9

"Recently Mr. Arkins, M.L.A., asked some questions in the Legislative Assembly concerning the dredging at Cook's River and the flooding of large…

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Flood Effects Production of Butter Factories Grafton

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 August 1922 · page 7

The effects of the floods of twelve months ago and the dry autumn on the dairy production of the Clarence are shown in the reports of butter…

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Chief of Police Cyclone Thompson

Referee · Wednesday 23 August 1922 · page 10

Cyclone Johnny Thompson, a tough American ring fighter in his day who visited Australia twice — the first tima twelve years ago—was recently appointed…

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A Topical Miscellany: Fire, Floods, and Sport

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 23 August 1922 · page 16

MISS D. HAUGHEY, Who won the Singles Tennis Championship at the annual tournament of the Catholic Girls' Secondary Schools at the Double Bay courts, beating…

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Refuge From a Storm Man and Girl One-roomed Camp a Serious Charge

Evening News · Thursday 24 August 1922 · page 7

Albert Parker, a cleric in the R[?] Estate Agent's Office, married, and with children, was at De[?] Sessions to-day…

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Kogarah Police Court. Wednesday, August 23. (Before Mr. Gale, S.m.,) Unstamped Receipt

The Propeller · Friday 25 August 1922 · page 4

George William Logan was proceeded against for not affixing a duty stamp to a receipt for £510. Defendant, in pleading guilty, said…

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