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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1929

1,949 stories in Sydney's papers · page 73 of 98

Flood Rages Storm Victims Britain and France London

Evening News · Thursday 19 September 1929 · page 11

REMARKABLE warm [?]…

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Shipping INTELLIGENCE & Weather Pakeha in Storm Chief Officer Hurled Along Deck

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 September 1929 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The Aberdeen and Commonwealth liner Pakeha arrived to-day with 13,000 tons of cargo, 3000 tons being loaded…

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Ballot Papers-lost in Flood Bass By-election Hobart

The Labor Daily · Thursday 19 September 1929 · page 6

Unprecedented in the political history of the State is the fact that the ballot papers which were required to carry out the by-election for Bass, a…

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i: t "Storm in Teacup"

The Biz · Friday 20 September 1929 · page 7

The Industrial Commission requires a half-yearly return of particulars of buildings erected in municipalities, and Holroyd Council's re…

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Violent Storms. Sweep Over Europe. LONDON, Sept. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 September 1929 · page 11

The remarkably warm late summer weather over the greater part of Europe culminated in a series of terrific thunderstorms. Three persons were killed by lightning…

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Sheep Perish Thousands Lost in Cyclone After Shearing

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 September 1929 · page 11

A terrific cyclone lout week wrought great damage among the newly shorn sheep in the Hunter River and Quirindi districts, many thousands of…

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Struck by Tree Young Farmer Killed During Storm near Wauchope

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 20 September 1929 · page 4

A young farmer, Angus Kennedy, aged twenty-one yours, lost his the during a storm, near Wauchope (N.S.W.), last weak. He And a…

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Farmers and Flood Losses Appeal for Assistance

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 September 1929 · page 21

As a result of flood damage and losses on the Lower Hunter an appeal has been made for assistance through the Rural Industries Branch…

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Junee Back Kobenhavn Search Met 20 Storms

Evening News · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 6

BACK from her lung cruise in the Southern Ocean, where a search was made for the Danish [?] Kobenhavn, the freighter Junee…

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Junee's Search. For the Kobenhavn. Captain Fletcher's Narrative. Gales and Heated Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 17

"After this lapse of time there can be no doubt that the Kobenhavn has disappeared with all hands, and in all probability has fallen a victim to drifting ice. She was the…

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Storm-tossed Search for the Kobenhavn "Seas Over Bridge" Battered Junee Home From Perilous Voyage

The Sun · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 6

Rusted and dirty, showing evident signs of her fights against fierce Southern storms and raging seas, the steamer Junee, after a fruitless search for the missing Danish training ship, Kobenhavn, tied up at a Sydney wharf this morning,…

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Flood Damage on Lower Hunter State Assistance to Farmers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 19

WEST MAITLAND, Friday. -- The effects of recent flood damage on the Lower Hunter were investigated today by Mr. H. V. Thorby, Minister…

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A Lucky Storm By Neil Sandery

Sunday Times · Sunday 22 September 1929 · page 2

ONE day a young man went up in an aeroplane by himself for the first time. He hud been up before, but not by himself. Well, when he was up…

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"Yes, We'll Have No===" Big Floods in Mexico Mexico City

The Sun · Sunday 22 September 1929 · page 4

Ninety thousand tons of bananas, grown by or for American companies, are under water in a vast flooded district covering the coastlands of the…

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Victims of Dust Storms

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 16

Dust storms have caused heavy mortality in shorn sheep throughout the Wilcannia P.P. district. This in addition to losses from cold and…

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In Gale Steamer Damaged

The Sun · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 14

Huge waves that carried a deck house away, and stripped the casings off the steam pipes on deck, were described on the arrival in Sydney to-day of…

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Storm Clouds Dodged Eastwood Bride at St. Mark's

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 21

FORTUNATELY, Miss Gwen Curtis fixed the hour of her wedding on Saturday afternoon, at St. Mark's Church, Darling Point, at 2 o'clock…

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The Harbour Bridge in Storm and by Night

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 1

STORMY SEPTEMBER DAY and velvet night offer a now artistic basis for the study of our bridge. Seen through Saturday's storm, and…

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Bruce Piloted to Brisbane in Four and a Half Hours Two Sick in Rough Trip Prime Minister Reads Gale and Dust

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Leaping into a gale at Mascot Aerodrome this morning, the Canberra, piloted by Captain…

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Pakeha in Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 13

The steamer Pakeha, which reached Sydney yesterday from London, had a deck-house carried away during a storm in the Indian Ocean…

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