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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1929

1,949 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 98

Six Dead Gale Havoc in England Terrific Storm London

The Sun · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 1

To date it is known that three persons were drowned and three killed by lightning, while many have been injured, as a result of…

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In Heavy Gale Moldavia's Voyage Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 9

On her voyage from Adelaide to Melbourne the mail steamer Moldavia encountered a heavy gale, last night. Only the members of the crew…

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Kobenhavn Search Junee in a Storm

Evening News · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 5

LATEST radio advice from the steamer June. which is endeavoring to trace the missing Danish training ship Kobenhaven. states that her captain…

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Fierce Storm in England Lightning Hits Dog- racing Crowd LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 4

Unprecedented tropical heat throughout yesterday had its climax on the south and southeast coast, in London and…

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Tidal Wave. On English Coast. Many Killed. Extraordinary Storm. LONDON, July 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 11

London had only four minutes' rain in the past four weeks and the Government was becoming alarmed at the prolongation of the drought. The Metropolitan Water Board…

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Junee's Search. Persistent Gales. (By radio from Captain C. D. Fletcher, master of the steamer Junee, which is searching the Southern Ocean for the missing Danish ship Kobenhaven.) at Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 July 1929 · page 11

"We have searched an area enclosed by 41 degrees south, and 43 degrees south latitude, and 110 degrees east, and 107 degrees cast, longitude, but have seen nothing…

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Moldavia in Severe Storm Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 6

During the night the mail steamer, Moldavia, battled with a severe storm on her voyage from Adelaide to Melbourne…

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Extremes of Weather Drought: Storms English Fatalities (British Official Wireless.) LONDON

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 1

AFTER many days of extreme heat, with [?] if the drought [?] and many parts [?]…

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City "Bites Dust" in 49-Mile Gale Mostly Fine, but Squally Winds To-day!

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 3

Business Sydney scurrying home from offices last night "bit the dust." Veering from west to south-west, the wind reached gale…

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Central Coast. Winter Crops on Flood-silted Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 July 1929 · page 9

When the pastures were silted over and destroyed as the result of the disastrous floods on the Macleay and Manning rivers last February, Mr. Pitt, the Senior Agricultural…

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Mild To-day, with a Fresh Breeze Gale Blew Out; Rain Not Likely

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 2

Fine, mild weather is forecast for the city to-day. Some passing cloud, and a fresh west to south-west breeze should add a wintry touch; but there…

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Minimising Flood Losses. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 July 1929 · page 16

The municipal council last night endorsed the proposal that a conference of shires, municipalities, and public bodies interested should be held to devise some scheme of minimising…

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Storm=tossed Progress of the Junee

The Sun · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 15

We are now cruising at a point about half-way between Cape Leeuwin and Kerguelen Island. We have met persistently heavy weather until…

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Amber Flood Whisky Taken From Bond Record Rush Revenue Bounds at Hint of Increased Duties

The Sun · Thursday 25 July 1929 · page 15

Half a million gallons of whisky ! Conjure an ecstatic vision of a vast volatile lake with no Claras with blonde hair to measure it out in thimbles. But don't. The strain is too much…

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Ship Makes Port After Heavy Storm Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 5

Leaving Whyalla. South Australia. for Rotterdam, on July 20 the American and Australian Line steamer Pa[?]eora struck a heavy storm in the…

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Strong Gale. on South Australian Coast. Whale Cut in Halves. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 July 1929 · page 12

According to officers and crews of vessels which have reached Port Adelaide during the last two days, the storm along the coast between Port Phillip Heads and Kangaroo…

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Dandenong Gale

Evening News · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 4

MR. GEORGE BLACK'S experiences in the Dandenong vale ("E.N." 20/7/29) bring that devastating storm vividly back to my memory, for I was on board the City…

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The VOICE of the CITY Caused a Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 6

No man is more in the world's eye at present than Lord Lloyd, who was Captain Lloyd, M.P., when the Baldwin Government made him High…

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Wild & Wide [?] Flood-dodger

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 27 July 1929 · page 16

For 12 years, through heat and cold, drought and flood, old Billy Davis, a well-known Mungindi (N.S.W.) identity, has lived in a tin humpy near the…

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"The Dinkums" Storm England ("Sun" Special) LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 28 July 1929 · page 1

"We are determined to show England that we know how to behave," said an Australian Boy Scout, who, with the…

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