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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1925

1,471 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 74

Miners Trapped Water Floods Colliery Manager's Bravery London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 1

An inrush or water trapped thirty, four coal miners in the Montague pit at S[?]otswood-on-Tyne. [?] hundred men escaped from the…

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A Dangerous Flood From the South of Europe

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 3

THE influx of Southern Europeans has already become a serious menace to the workers in various parts of Australia, and unless the flow is stopped we are likely…

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Hippos. and Crocs. at Front Door Zululand Floods Capetown. Wednesday Evening

Evening News · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 1

An extraordinary state of affairs it reported from Somkele, Zululand, where a number of settlers have been marooned for several…

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Politics Quiet "Calm Before Storm" Cabinet Washing Up

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 1

Everything teemed calm in the Political field yesterday, Ministers being busy attending to departmental matters…

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African Floods Strange Company Hippopotami and Crocodiles Capetown, April 1

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 1

An extraordinary state of affairs is reported from Somkele, Zululand, where a number of settlers were marooned for some days, owing to…

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Our Boys and Girls. a Cyclone

The Methodist · Saturday 4 April 1925 · page 8

sMy Dear Boys and Girls,—I have just been reading of the total destruction in a cyclone of a church in a distant part of Queensland, and it has brought to my mind, vividly, my experiences in one of…

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Flood of Migration Vital Agreement Huge British Loan Mr. Bruce Explains

Evening News · Wednesday 8 April 1925 · page 7

THE new migration agreement with the British Government was explained by the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, at the Show luncheon…

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Heavy Floods. North Queensland. Brisbane, We[?]sday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 April 1925 · page 12

Reports received by the Railway Depart[?] from Cairns to-day indicate that floods are again dislocating traff[?] in the north. The message stated th[?] there had been very heavy…

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Swimming Gossip The Storm at Manly

Arrow · Friday 10 April 1925 · page 12

IT blew so hard at Manly the other night that the baths lost their accustomed shape; but it's an ill wind that does nobody any good…

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Earl Balfour a Storm Centre Riot in Damascus Exciting Scenes Damascus, Friday Evening

Evening News · Saturday 11 April 1925 · page 1

Yesterday opened with ominous [?] The shops and offices were closed and [?] thronged the streets. but shortly after mid-day the…

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Gale in the Bight Khiva's Rough Passage

Evening News · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 1

The P. and O. R.M.S. Khiva, which arrived at Sydney on Sunday from London via ports, met a furious gale in the Great Australian Bight…

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R.m.s. Khiva. Storm in the Bight

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1925 · page 6

After on absence from Sydney since 1923, the P. and O. Royal Mail steamer Khiva arrived here yesterday morning under the command of Captain H. W. Randall. The Khiva's…

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More Royal Show Triumphs Flood Tide of Success All Records Broken

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 April 1925 · page 7

The day was made for attendance record breaking. It quite made amends in glorious fashion for the weather breaks and uncertainties of…

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Gale on Coast Rough Seas Hamper Shipping

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 April 1925 · page 3

The weather conditions on the coast and highlands underwent a rapid transformation yesterday. Rough seas were experienced along…

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Cyclone Pty., Ltd

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 10

[?] folk are tremendously inter [?] in good gates for the reason that outback travel, in there days of meter cars, means a long successor…

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Fighting a Gale

The Sun · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 1

The British airship R33, which was torn by a gale from her mooring mast at Pulham, and blown across the North Sea, She was last reported over Holland,…

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MR, J. Gale. Veteran Journalist. Ninety-fifth Birthday. Queanbeyan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 12

Mr. John Gale, J.P., celebrates his ninetyfifth birthday to-morrow. He is still actively engaged in Press work, and as coroner and secretary of the local Masonic lodge. A…

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Storm in New Zealand. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 11

Canterbury was swept by a great southerly storm to-day. Reports from country districts indicate that in some places the position is serious. Snow fell in some districts…

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Storms in N.Z. Snow, Hail, and Rain Wellington, N.Z.

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 7

Canterbury experienced a groat southerly storm to-day, and was swept, by snow, hall, and rain. Country reports Indicate that the position is serious at…

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Storm-swept New Zealand Wireless Experiment Fails Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 9

The storm which has been raging at Canterbury is abating, but the ferry steamer from Wellinton to Lyttelton met with great seas south of Cape…

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