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Floods & storms, 1927

1,877 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 94

Engineer Caught by Wave Baron Minto in Cyclone

The Sun · Thursday 28 July 1927 · page 7

Eight days out from Auckland, her last port on the voyage from Iquique (South America), the steamer Baron Minto reached Sydney late last night…

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Sudden Death of Mr. W. A. GALE Clerk of Federal House

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 July 1927 · page 13

Mr. Walter Augustus Gale, Clerk of the House of Representatives, died suddenly at Parliament House, Canberra, yesterday at the age of 63 years…

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Battle with Gale in the Tasman Sea Damage to Steamer Officers Injured

Evening News · Thursday 28 July 1927 · page 13

AFTER a seven days' tussle with the gale, which is raging in the Tasman Sea, the steamer Baron Minto arrived at Sydney late last…

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Mr. Walter A. Gale. Sudden Death at Canberra. Clerk of House of Representatives. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 July 1927 · page 12

Mr. Walter A. Gale, Clerk of the House of Representatives, died suddenly from heart failure at Parliament House this morning. Mr. Gale, who had been in falling health for…

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Shanghai Again Is Storm Centre Tax War Races Drastic Foreign Reprisals Nanking's Tariff Bomb Shaxchm

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 July 1927 · page 1

THE foreging[?]…

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Serious Floods. in Western India. Calcutta, July 37

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 July 1927 · page 11

Unprecedented rainfall has caused serious floods in the State of Baroda, Western India, resulting in almost the isolation of Bombay Mall trains from Peshawar and the Punjab are…

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Trains Marooned Serious Floods in India Bombay Is Isolated Calcutta

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 July 1927 · page 5

Unprecedented rainfall has caused serious floods in the State of Baroda, Western India, resulting in the almost complete isolation of Bombay…

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Late Mr. W. A. Gale Toowoomba

The Sun · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 3

Sympathetic reference was made by the Prime Minister this afternoon to the death of Mr. W. A. Gale, Clerk of the House of Representatives. Mr…

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Mr. Gale's Funeral Impressive Ceremony Canberra

Evening News · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 17

IN Kins's Hall, where nearly three months ago, the Federal Parliament was opened in pomp and splendor, the funeral service for Mr…

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Rough Time in Storm the Baron Minto Three Weeks' Battle

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 3

WITH her chief engineer and several of the clew [?] after a [?] with a terr[?] storm which raged for three weeks across the Pacific Ocean…

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Floods in Western India. Bombay Isolated

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 7

Hundreds of square miles of land were flooded, scores of bridges washed away, and mail trains were marooned in the State of Baroda (Western…

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G.P.O. Flooded Hobart 'Phones Cut Off Hobart

The Sun · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 17

Four hundred telephones were put out of action in Hobart in the early hours of this morning, when a water pipe burst at the General Post Office…

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Floods in India Cotton Outlook Serious Calcutta

The Sun · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 3

Floods of the most unprecedented severity have occurred in the Gujarat and Kathiawar districts. Fifteen inches or rain fell in one day at…

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Flood in the South Main Road Impassable

The Sun · Friday 29 July 1927 · page 14

The Royal Automobile Club had a telegram from Bega this morning, with the information that the Broadribt River at Orbost is flooded, and that…

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Mr. Walter Gale. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 17

The remains of Mr. Walter Gale, late Clerk of Parliament, who died in Parliament House on Wednesday, were buried in the local Anglican churchyard to-day, his funeral being…

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Against Storms Rooke's Progress Nearing Calcutta Calcutta

The Sun · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 1

According to the Calcutta newspaper, "The Englishman," Denis Rooke, who is flying from Britain to Australia in a Moth 'plane, under the…

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Hit by Cyclone Netherlands Suffers Severely the Hague

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 1

A PIERCE [?] accompanied by [?] swept [?] several district…

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Floods in India Six Deaths -- Great Damage to Crops CALCUTTA

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 July 1927 · page 5

A grave situation has been created in Western India by continued floods. Cottongrowers are faced with a big loss…

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The Terrors of the Fourth No. 6 -- The Deluge

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 31 July 1927 · page 5

"I do wish June and Nance would hurry with the wood," grumbled Pat, knocking an ant off her leg as she spoke. "This grass is full of creeping, crawling things,…

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