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Floods & storms, 1925

1,471 stories in Sydney's papers · page 69 of 74

Queanbeyan Flood Relief Fund

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 November 1925 · page 16

The Queanbeyan Flood Relief Fund has now been virtually closed, the committee being of the opinion that no further effort should be made in the direction of [?]uring donations…

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Flood Danger Passes Rain Now in North Clearing Elsewhere

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 November 1925 · page 7

The threatened danger from floods on the south coast and southern tablelands was eliminated yesterday by an extensive…

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Deluge at Forster Forster

The Sun · Sunday 22 November 1925 · page 5

The long-deferred spring rains have deluged the mid-North Coast since Wednesday. On Friday there was the heaviest…

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Weathering the Storm Finance Bill in France PARIS

Sunday Times · Sunday 22 November 1925 · page 2

The Government narrowly weathered the first storm in the Chamber of Deputies. After unanimously agreeing to the second reading of the…

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Like Ducks' Eggs Hailstones at Grafton Phenomenal Storm Grafton

The Sun · Sunday 22 November 1925 · page 5

A terrifle hailstorm passed over the Clarence district. Heavy damage was done to the maize and vegetable crops and orchards. Even lucerne was…

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Open Feud Labor May Be Split ''Red" Menace Big Storm Brewing

The Sun · Sunday 22 November 1925 · page 2

Another storm is brewing in New South Wales Labor circles. Moderate Labor is blaming the extremist element for the defeat in the…

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Country News. Violent Storms. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 November 1925 · page 12

Considerable damage was done to orchards, maize crops, and vegotable gardens by a hallstorm which passed over portions of the Clarence district. In some place crops…

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To Harness a Gale Coogee Man's Idea His New Windmill

Evening News · Monday 23 November 1925 · page 8

A WINDMILL, designed on the [?]cetary system, by Mc. H. Knaack, of 55 Beach-street, Coogee, is claimed by him to be…

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Ousting the "Reds" Big Storm Brewing in Labor Camp Bombshell of A.l.p. Leader War Declared on the Communists

Evening News · Monday 23 November 1925 · page 7

THE POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE of the deportation proceedings, so far as the Australian Labor Party it concerned, is quite overshadowed by the results of the bomb thrown into the camp by Mr. James Tyrrell on…

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A Storm Mill

Evening News · Tuesday 24 November 1925 · page 7

Mr. H. Knaack, of Coogee, standing alongside his new type of windmill. It relates around a steel centre and the inventor…

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Floods at Glen Innes. Glen Innes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 November 1925 · page 12

Traffic on the Grafton-road has been held up to a large extent for the last couple of days owing to the flood in the Beardy River. The bridge, three miles out of Glen Innes,…

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Lights Out When Storms Occur

Evening News · Wednesday 25 November 1925 · page 4

It was stated at Strathfield Council last night that [?] of the electric [?] were becoming ton numero[?] whenever a storm occurred the…

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Racing in a Downpour Storm Conditions Obtain at Victoria Park

Referee · Wednesday 25 November 1925 · page 6

Patrons went to Victoria Park last Wednesday unprepared for a wet day. Stormy conditions developed, and the three concluding events were…

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Senate Count Delayed by Floods N.s.w. Team

The Sun · Wednesday 25 November 1925 · page 9

Interest in the elections now centres in the Senate count, since the result in the House of Representatives is beyond doubt…

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Great Gales in North Sea Vessel Founders Another Ashore London, Wednesday Night

Evening News · Thursday 26 November 1925 · page 1

Terrible north-easterly gales have rased on the east coast of England with and heavy falls of snow and considerable loss…

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Labor's Rainy Day When Will Storm Burst? What the A.W.U. SAYS Calls For a Prompt Stocktaking

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 November 1925 · page 1

When will the storm burst? The clouds are hourly gathering more ominously over the Labor movement, and already Cabinet is feeling i the force of the big wind…

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A Lively Page of Mission History Irish Vincentians amidst Chinese Floods Father Howard, CM., tells how the Dyke Gave Way

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 26 November 1925 · page 13

THE District of Sukiao, which has been assigned to the Irish Vincen-tians in China, is very low-lying and is intersected by several large rivers…

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Floods at Athens. Extensive Damage Caused. London. Nov. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 November 1925 · page 9

The Athens correspondent of the "Daily Express" says that numerous deaths have been caused by floods, due to sudden, torrential rain, which transformed the avenues in Athens…

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Many Deaths Floods in Athens Torrential Rain Athens, November 24

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 November 1925 · page 5

Numerous deaths have occurred through floods due to sudden torrential rain, which transformed the avenues of Athens into canals,…

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Severe Storms. North-eastern Britain. London, Nov. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 November 1925 · page 11

There have been severe north-easterly gales on the east coast, accompanied by heavy falls of snow. A Scottish drifter foundered off Flamborough Head, after a great wave…

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