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Floods & storms, 1926

1,452 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 73

Racing Calm Follows After Storm Moderates Will Replace at Moorefield Good Horses of Randwick Divisions Ensure Extended Programme for

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 20 April 1926 · page 1

MOOREFIELD CLUB looks like having an extended programme to offer on Saturday next, for nominations are so heavy in three of the races that those events will have to be divided unless scratchings are particularly heavy. THE first event is the Hurdle Race, for which Les Paddington heads the weights with…

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Huge Seas Vessels Buffeted Phenomenal Gales Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 April 1926 · page 1

Mountainous seas are still raging along the east coast of Australia. Headland reports state that many south bound steamers are hove-to, and…

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Storm-beaten. Disabled Coaster. Towed Into Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 April 1926 · page 15

Another victim of Saturday's storm on the coast was towed into Sydney yesterday afternoon. It was the small wooden coastal trading vessel Currumbene, which had met…

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Tragic Storms Sweep Japan Wedding Party Lost Many Are Missing Tokyo, Tuesday Evening

Evening News · Wednesday 21 April 1926 · page 1

OWING to storms sweeping the entire coast of the Japan Sea yesterday, more than one hundred fisherman are reported to be…

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Storm Plays Havoc Gales and Fires in Japan 400 Houses Burnt Fishing Fleet Missing Tokio

The Labor Daily · Thursday 22 April 1926 · page 1

Owing to a violent gate which swept over Central Japan last night, several minor outbreaks of fire were fanned by the hurricane…

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Gales in Japan. Disastrous Fires. Tokio, April 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 April 1926 · page 9

Owing to a violent gale, which swept over Central Japan last night, several minor outbreaks of fire, fanned by a hurricane, developed into disastrous conflagrations…

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Another Storm Sweeps Japan Tokyo, Wednesday Night

Evening News · Thursday 22 April 1926 · page 12

THE recent storm which swept the Sea of Japan was followed by another last night, which did considerable minor damage in Tokyo and…

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Storm in Japan 100 Fishermen Missing Many Houses Destroyed Tokio, April 21

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 April 1926 · page 1

Owing to a violent gale which swept over Central Japan on Tuesday night, several minor outbreaks of fire developed into disastrous conflagrations…

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Traffic Blocked Saturday's Storm

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 3

After the severe storm on Saturday evening it was found that danger existed in several places where high tension electric wires had broken and were lying…

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Perilous Trip Yacht in Gales Ten Tonner From N.z

The Sun · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 9

After having been driven 400 miles from its course by gales, the 10-ton pleasure yacht Psyche anchored in Watson's Bay from Wellington at 1…

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Swept by Cyclone Death Roll in Japan Wedding Party Drowned

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 4

As a result of the terrific storms that swept the entire coast of the Japan Sea on Monday, more than a hundred fishermen have been…

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MISADVENTURES Killed during a Storm Over the Cliffs

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 4

When two persons were lost in the bush near Cowan (N.S.W.) during a rain storm on Saturday night a woman named Mrs. Ruby Devine,…

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Epic Trip of Tiny Craft Fought a Storm N.z. to Sydney Fine Seamanship

Evening News · Friday 23 April 1926 · page 7

THE VOYAGE of the 10-ton auxiliary yacht Psyche from Wellington, New Zealand, to Sydney, through…

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Stormy Voyage. New Zealand Yacht. Buffeted by Gales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 April 1926 · page 19

After voynge of l8 days from New Zealand. the pleasure yacht Psyche arrived, in Sydney yesterday afternoon after having encountered portion of the storm which raged…

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Lifted Sixty Feet Cyclone Strikes S.A. ADELAIDE

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 April 1926 · page 1

Dangerqus weather conditions are prevailing off the coast, which has already been swept by a cyclone…

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Melb. Swept by Cyclone Waterfront Damage Dwellings Suffer Melbourne

Evening News · Saturday 24 April 1926 · page 6

A CYCLONIC storm passed over Melbourne last night. For an hour there was heavy rain but no damage was reported in the…

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Speed Boats Bartlett's Pluck Racing in Rain Storm

Truth · Sunday 25 April 1926 · page 5

AGAINST a stiff nor'-west breeze and a choppy sea, Hope Bartlett, the well-known motorist, put up a magnificent performance…

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Buffeted Gales on Coast Steamers Late Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 26 April 1926 · page 8

Gales on the Victorian coast have again disorganised shipping. Interstate passenger steamers due early this morning did not come in…

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French Budget Weathers the Storm PARIS, Sunday Evening

Evening News · Monday 26 April 1926 · page 1

The Chamber of Deputies [?] the whole of the Budget for 1926 by 427 notes to 133. —Reuter…

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Gale's Fury Stops Repairs on N.Z. Cable Line Steamer's Fine Feat Auckland

Evening News · Monday 26 April 1926 · page 6

A HEAVY gale made difficult the task of repairing the fault in the Walling-Sydney cable by the cable steamer Iris…

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