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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1922

935 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 47

Police Court. Before Mr. Gale, S.M. Wednesday, August 22. Bobbing a Benefactor

The St George Call · Friday 25 August 1922 · page 5

Joseph O'Neill, was charged with obtaining a suit of clothes, value £4/10/0, from Mrs. Alice Begbie, of Kogarah, by means of false pretences…

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Damage by Flood. Shire Ask for a Grant

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 August 1922 · page 4

Messrs, E. Crisp and T. J. Kelly, presidents of the shire councils of monato and Yarrowlumla (N.S.W.), with the members for the district, waited upon…

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Returned Soldier Drowned. Fell Into a Flooded Creek

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 August 1922 · page 4

A returned soldier named Harry Kent fell into Burke's Crook at the rear of the public school at The Rock (N.S.W.) and was drowned. The creek was in…

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Cook's River Floods

The Propeller · Friday 25 August 1922 · page 4

The flooding of low-lying portions of Cook's River at Arncliffe, Tempe, Undercliffe, and Marriekville can not, the Under-Secretary for Public Works…

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German Goods "Big Flood Coming" Danes' Opinion

The Sun · Monday 28 August 1922 · page 7

A flood of German goods to Australia is predicted by the officers of the Danish motor ship, the Chile, at present in port at Sydney from…

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Touch Wood Quiet Week-end Is Storm Brewing? New State "Lion" in Path

The Sun · Tuesday 29 August 1922 · page 7

Those State Ministers who are at all superstitious touched wood when they entered their offices this morning. They had had a record weekend, and…

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The Human Flood

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 30 August 1922 · page 4

To-day we are actually paying people from poorer countries to come out to this country to better conditions. Nobody realises the beauty of this country until he has made a contrast with another country. After contrasting Australia with a number of…

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316 Drowned Passenger Steamer Sinks Helpless in Gale New York, August 30

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 August 1922 · page 5

Reports have been received from Santiago, the capital of Chill, of the loss of the Itata, a Chilian passenger steamer, with almost everyone on…

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Kogarah Police Court. Wednesday, August 30. (Before Mr. Gale, S.M., Motor-cyclist Fined

The Propeller · Friday 1 September 1922 · page 2

Albert Charles Brown was proceeded against for driving a motor-cycle at a dangerous speed at Kogarah. Constable Gilshennen gave evidence…

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Aldermanic Thunder. Storm in Eastwood Council. All Over the Garbage

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 2 September 1922 · page 8

After an interval of relative calm, there was another terrific uproar in Eastwood Council on Wednesday night last. Ald. Matthews and Ald…

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Heavy Rain in Northwest 163 Points at Wee Waa

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 September 1922 · page 6

Light to moderate rain has been recorded over the north-eastern quarter of the State. Some heavy falls were reported on the north-west slopes and…

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Flood Time

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 5 September 1922 · page 4

Dear "Planets,"—We only got our mail yesterday. On account of the flood, the mailman could not curse for a week. It spread all around us, and…

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Floods

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 5 September 1922 · page 4

Dear "Planets,—It is a few months since I wrote to you, but it is better to write sometimes than never to write at all. isn't it, "Planets"?…

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Steamer Gale. Sydney-tasmanian Trade

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 4

From Tasmania, the steamer Gale arrived at Kembla on Wednesday evening. She will load coke there back to Strahan…

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Violent Storm in the City

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 4

Muggy conditions in the city yesterday culminated in a violent thunderstorm. The storm burst at 2.46 p.m., and was accompanied by vivid lighting and loud…

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A Riding Fatality. Horse Frightened by a Storm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 4

A severe rain and hall storm at Gilgandra (N.S.W.) on Wednesday was indirectly the cause of the death of Mr. Beveridge's youngest daughter…

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Storm Fatality. Two People Killed. Four Others Injured. Struck by Lightning. Kurri Kurri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 9

During the storm at Weston this afternoon 17 footballers rushed into a shed at the Homestead Recreation Ground. Almost immediately a tree near the shed was struck by…

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Thunderstorms Ah Over State

Evening News · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 8

Another thunderstorm swept the City and suburbs yesterday afternoon resulting in some light falls of rain Sydney regis[?]ing 37 points, Manly…

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The Lachlan River in Flood

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 5

Photo taken from Jerula Station Homestead. Owner, Colin Campbell…

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Thunderstorms Rain and Hail

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 September 1922 · page 6

Rain, accompanied by thunderstorms and some hall, has been recorded over most of the eastern parts of New South Wales, and also at a few places in the…

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