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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1929

1,949 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 98

Brave Constable Rewarded Tas. Flood Relief Plan Hobart

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 5

The rehabilitation of the homes of fluid sufferers and provision of pensions for the widows and orphans of those who lost their lives at Derby are…

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Weather on Best Behavior May Be Thunderstorm

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 May 1929 · page 3

Perfect weather prevailed in Sydney over the week-end. The maximum temperature yesterday was 79.8, the highest since April 22, when the…

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Westerly Gale 50=Mile Gusts Reported

The Sun · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 18

A moderate gale, with gusts reaching 50 miles an hour, is reported from the South Head signal station. The gale appears to bo on the increase…

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Aorangi Delayed by Storm. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 16

The Aorangi met a fresh easterly yesterday, freshening to gale force in the evening. The motor liner arrived three hours later than was expected…

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New Picnic Area Once Flood Land

Evening News · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 11

JUNCTION Park, situated at the Junetion of George's River and Prospect Creek is to be transformed from a lowying flood land Into an up-to-date…

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Vic. Police Band's Gratitude Flood Fund Offering Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 May 1929 · page 1

The Commissioner of Police, Col Lord, is in receipt of a letter from the Chief Commissioner of Victorian Police, enclosing on behalf of the…

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Makambo in Storm

Evening News · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 14

A Tropical storm has delayed the island seamer, Makambo. She is bound from the New Hebrides, Norfolk and Lord Howe [?] and was due at Sydney…

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Mild Gale Sweeps Through Sydney

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 1

THE Iry, wild winds which swept through Syndey's street yesterday, with such force attained a velocity of is mites an hour at 2.30…

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Tasmanian Racing Flood Relief Events

Referee · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

Tasmanian Turf Club and Newnham Racing Clubs joined forced on Saturday, and held a meeting at Mowbray in aid of the sufferers by the recent floods…

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Flood Havoc Rivers Break Banks London

The Sun · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 1

After the melting of the snows on the Anatolian Mountains, says the Bagdad correspondent of "The Times," the Euphrates and Tigris…

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In Tropical Storm Island Steamer Late

Evening News · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 17

THREE days late through encountering a tropical storm, the island steamer Makambo, from the New Hebrides, Nor-folk and Lord Howe Islands, reached…

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The Record Flood

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 15

ROY MADSEN (Wylie Creek).—My home is on the bank of a creek. Last Feburary twelve months there was a record flood in the creek, which nearly…

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Flood of American Wheat Causes Big Slump in Prices Sydney Shivers Rain and Cold ,Wet for Weekend?

Evening News · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 5

ACCORDING to the State meterologist, Mr. Hares, the present cold snap is known as "radiation" weather. "Mr. G.P." humbly…

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Tasmanian Flood Relief

The Sun · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 19

The Tasmanian ladies' bridge party at the Mary Elizabeth tea-rooms, in aid of the Tasmanian Flood Relief Fund, realised £60. A second bridge…

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Fined for Aiding Flood Sufferers Held Sunday Concert Hobart

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 6

Fergu--Mason, of His Malesty's Theatre, was fined £10 for holding a concert on Sunday afternoon in aid of the flood relief funds, without…

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Country News Road Slips Into River Damage by Flood Erosion

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 20

CORAKI. Thursday.--A deputation waited on the acting-Premier (Mr. Buttenshaw) to-day and urged Government action with regard to the…

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Heavy Rain More Falls Likely R'wick Drenched

Evening News · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 6

TORRENTIAL rain—the heaviest since the first week in April— fell over the metropolitan area during last night and to-day, and many…

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St. James Theatre—"the Baby Cyclone."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 12

George M. Cohan's comedy "The Baby Cyclone." played by the company headed by Miss Leona Hogarth, is entertaining con[?]ntly large audiences at the St. James Theatre. There will be a matinee to-day,…

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Hagen Wins British "Open" to U.S.A. Golf in Half-gale London

The Sun · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 1

Waller Hagen, the American star player, won the British Open Golf Championship to-day, with an aggregate of 292. The final round, was played in a mind which approached gale force, the conditions being so trying that Hagen, after his record…

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Tas. Flood Victims

Evening News · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 5

The Grand Lodge of Tasmania I.O.O. F has opened a relief fund to assist members of the society who suffered so severely and lost their…

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