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Floods & storms, 1930

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Flood Warning North Coast Wet Season Ahead

Evening News · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 11

FOLLOWING the numerous heart talk of rain on the slopes and highlands of the North Coast during the latter part of last week and during…

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Stops Trams 18-Inch Water Main Bursts Waterloo Flood Rushing Water Smashes Footpath

The Sun · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 13

The roadway beneath two tram lines was blown away for a considerable distance, and the footpath was pushed back and torn up at the corner of Botany-road and Bourke-street, Waterloo, early to-day, when an…

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Floods Likely Mr. Mares' Warning to N.S.W. Railway Washaways More Heavy Rain Expected

Evening News · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 8

TWO deaths have occurred, one in Queensland, and one in N.S.W., as a result of the storms now sweeping the two States. The Sales Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, said to-day that further heavy rain…

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Wagga Deluge After Dry Period Wagga

Evening News · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 8

Following a long dry spell, 148 points of rain fell yesterday between 4 and 6 p.m. and the town and immediate district received a soaking…

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Youth Killed in Fifield Storm [?]Rundle

Evening News · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 8

During the height of a terrific storm at Fifield yesterday, Harold Thomas Ensor, 19 while riding home from work, was killed be a limb from a tree struck by…

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Graft Talk Sign of Labor Split ? Job for Committee Theodore Again the Storm Centre

The Sun · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 12

Action by the East Sydney Labor Electorate Council in demanding the repeal of the recent Federal ordinance for the regulation of gold mining in New Guinea is regarded in some Labor quarters as evidence of a further rift in the party…

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Two Lives Lost Storm Toll in Two States Car Zig-zags Woman Screams Gaol for Driver

Evening News · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 8

THAT a woman passenger in a car which was zig-zagging along George-street at 35 in p[?] last night [?]amed: "Policeman" Stop this…

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Ponies Off Third Time Kensington Flooded Racing Upsets

Evening News · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 7

TWICE postponed already, the Kensington pony meeting was further put off from to-day until…

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A Gay Surf Floodlights Scheme Boxdi Net

Evening News · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 9

SCHEMES to throw colored flood-lights on Bondi Beach breakers, and to enclose 20 acres of the sea with a shark-proof net, created…

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Flood Warning. Rains on North Coast. Cloudburst at Tamworth. Further Falls Inland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 12

With prospects of further heavy falls of rain over the central coastal river districts this week, the possibility of floods is being discussed. During the past week…

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Floods Are Coming! Drenching for Whole State Warning Issued

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 2

A warning that floods are likely on the central coastal rivers, if rain continues, was broadcast yesterday by Mr…

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Eased Off Less Flood Fear Storm Weakens

The Sun · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 13

Fears that the recent heavy, rains, if they continued, would result in floods in certain areas, have been allayed by…

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Youth Killed by Fury of Storm Trundle, Thesday

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 3

WHILE riding home from work during a storm at Fifield yesterday, Harold Thomas Ensor. 19, was killed by the…

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The TURF Racing at Moorefield in Heavy Going Heavy rain fell all over the metropolitan area on Thursday and Friday last, and continued, though in a lesser degree, on Saturday; and it was feared that all racing would have to be postponed

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 50

AT Moorefield, however, the fall could not have been nearly so great as in other parts, for, though the going was heavy, the track was in far better condition than was expected. So the club wisely decided to keep…

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Flood at Tamworth—new Park From Waste

Evening News · Wednesday 19 March 1930 · page 14

MISS H. LYNN, Kempar Flats. Lavender Bay, an entrant for the Screen Star Quest. [?]TE for NEW PARR—[?]ing and an[?]ed, this share piece of land left by the Parramatta-road deviation at Haslem Creek, is to be turned into a park by Lidcombe Council…

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Finer Weather. Flood Danger Passed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 15

Danger of floods on the central and north const of New South Wales has now almost disappeared, according to the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares), although further rain may…

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206 Dead French Flood Toll Paris

The Sun · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 14

Lives lost in the recent floods in the South of France are estimated at 206, according to official statistics just issued. Homes wrecked numbered…

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Flood Danger Not So Acute Little Rain Yesterday

The Labor Daily · Thursday 20 March 1930 · page 6

Except Tor some heavy showers at Manning Heads, very little rain fell -over the State yesterday. The flood danger in the northern rivers…

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Riotous Women. Storm Meeting Room. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 11

Hundreds of women stormed a room in Temple Court, where a meeting of the Housewives' Association was to be held to-day. Hats were knocked awry, feet were trampled…

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Storm in Britain. Channel Traffic Delayed. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, March 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 12

Wintry weather prevails over the greater part of the British Isles, more or less heavy snowfalls being reported. Owing to a snowstorm in the Channel, air services were…

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