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Floods & storms, 1925

1,471 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 74

Terrible Floods Hundreds in Tree Tops Villages Obliterated Tokio

The Sun · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 1

Details of the Korean flood indicate vast damage to property, but a comparatively small loss of life, the latter being under 1000…

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GALES! Mares's Cheery Word Warns Shipping

The Sun · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 10

The State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) to-day issued the following warning to shipping:--"Strong west to south-west winds to…

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In Teeth of a Gale Airman's Feat to Welcome Fleet

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 July 1925 · page 1

While the Savoia, resting by the way, was snugly ensconsed in Farm Cove yesterday morning, another seaplane was battling…

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Futile Storm 94 Miles an Hour Registered Ships Mock the Gale Rainbow of Promise

The Sun · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 17

All day yesterday the Fleet battled playfully with a terrific gale. The seas whipped themselves into foaming furies, as if bent on fighting the big ships every inch of the way into Sydney Harbor. THE riggings screeched with the…

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Southerly Gales Rough Time Off Coast Warning to Shipping

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 3

Southerly winds, strong to gale force, are expected to develop to-day on the central and south coast. Mr. Mares stated last night that a…

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In Rain and Gale Melbourne's Stormy Welcome to Fleet Watching Crowds Shiver on Coast

The Sun · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 10

The thousands who watched the entrance through The Rip of the portion of the Fleet that went to Melbourne shivered in icy cold blasts and fierce showers of stinging rain. The gale drove before it long white-capped rollers, that made a boiling cauldron of the…

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Sydney's Warm Sunshine Predicted Cyclone Keeps Away U.S.A. Fleet Sees Harbor at Its Best

The Sun · Thursday 23 July 1925 · page 9

Guns boomed from the sides of warships, ferry steamers played cock-a-doodle do, amidst a medley of other siren songs; from the headlands, black with people, faint cheers came across the harbor; American sailors, on the broad decks of their majestic battleships, gazed in wonder at the scene--and the eight mammoth U.S.A…

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Tennis- Ball Hail Storms Over Western Europe Damage at Wembley 200 Homes Flooded Out; Two Men Killed

The Sun · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 1

Widespread damage was caused on Wednesday night by thunderstorms which raged from the Pyrenees to the north of Scotland. Two men mere killed, one directly, and the other indirectly, by…

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A Fight for Life Aboard a Derelict Awaroa Abandoned in Gale Gallant Crew Work Knee-deep in Water at the Pumps Young Stewardess Among Rescued Melbourne

Evening News · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 1

DERELICT, and drifting dangerously in the path of shipping in Bass Strait, is the wreck of the Holyman line steamer, Awaroa. Her crew, comprising 13 non-union men, was picked up by…

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Flood in City Shop Big Main Bursts Valuable Stock Ruined Early Morn Alarm

Evening News · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 9

DAMAGE that will take a considerable time to estimate was caused at Lassetter's Ltd., by a water main that burst in the early…

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3 A.M. FLOOD Damage at Lassetter's Six=inch Main Bursts

The Sun · Friday 24 July 1925 · page 13

By the bursting of a six- inch water main below York- street early this morning, basement departments at Lassetter's were flooded, in places to…

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Rough Seas. Shipping Hampered. Southerly Gales Sweep Coast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 July 1925 · page 18

Rough seas and southerly gales swept the seaboard of New South Wales yesterday. According to reports received at 6 o'clock last night rough seas were running at nearly…

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Caught by Storm Vessel Funs on Beach Crew in Rigging Auckland

The Sun · Saturday 25 July 1925 · page 9

BI magnificent seamanship, Captain Teixeira beached the large auxiliary scow Fairburn near Whakatane during a heavy gale…

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Flood Peril N.z. Suffers Again [?]

Evening News · Saturday 25 July 1925 · page 1

HEAVY rainstorms throughout Auckland Province have brought about a recrudescence of the floods which caused extensive…

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Water Main Bursts. City Shop Flooded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 July 1925 · page 15

Extensive damage was done to the shop and contents of F. Lassetter and J Co., Ltd., early yesterday morning, when a large water main burst at the corner of Market and York…

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Professors Say Bryan Must Get Wise 2 His Tail Australian Highbrows Stand for Monkey Dope Leading Citizens Say Fundamentalism is Bunk Woop Woop, Flood

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 July 1925 · page 3

About a dozen guys hitched hosses over to the School of Arts yesterday to give this Anti-Evolution stunt the once-over…

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Lassetter's Flooded

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 July 1925 · page 5

Owing to a water-main's'' bursting in the early hours yesterday morning, the basement of F. Lassetter and Co.'s stores in York Street was…

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Upper House. To Be Flooded. Twenty Members. Proposed Abolition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 July 1925 · page 11

If the consent of the Governor is obtained the Labour Government will at an early date make an effort to swamp the Legislative Council by the appointment of…

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Buffeted by Gales Schooner's Protracted Voyage 113 Days From Pacific Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 July 1925 · page 3

The Elinor H.--a five-masted American schooner--towed Into port yesterday, after an eventful voyage from the Columbia River. The vessel is…

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