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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1930

1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 83

The Weather Heavy Rain Expected in the West and South West

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 22 March 1930 · page 4

The State Meteorologist has issued the following special forecast of the weather throughout New South Wales during the week-end…

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No Storm After All Civil Service Stores' Big Meeting

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 22 March 1930 · page 5

What was expected to be a stormy meeting, of Civil Service Stores shareholders ended yesterday afternoon in a unanimous…

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Shipping INTELLIGENCE & Weather Anten in Rough Seas Struck Gale on Run from Brisbane

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 22 March 1930 · page 13

Encountering a south-easterly gale and rough seas, the Swedish steamer Anten arrived in Sydney late yesterday afternoon, over eight hours…

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The Flooded Road

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 22 March 1930 · page 15

BOADICEA" (Bondoola).—In January and February it rained here off and on for four weeks, and we're all tired of R. We children had great times running about in the rain…

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Gandhi's March. Crossing of Flooded River. CALCUTTA, March 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 March 1930 · page 18

The Bombay Government has banned three films portraying Gandhi's civil disobedience march. Gandhi's campaigners are nearing the sea coast. In crossing the River Madi, which…

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Flood Warnings. Hawkesbury-nepean District. Instructions to Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1930 · page 12

The Chief Secretary's Department Has informed public bodies in the Hawkesbury district, through Mr R. B. Walker, M.L.A., of action that has been taken with a view to…

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Gales in Tasman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1930 · page 19

The State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares) said last night that reports received during the day indicated that rough seas, with south to south-east gales, were being experienced in…

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Fatal Thirst, Then Deluge Station Cook's Last Walk

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 26 March 1930 · page 2

PERTH, Tuesday.--A few days after Patrick Carney (38) had died from thirst in the wilderness near Wyndham in…

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"Heroes To—vagrants." Workless Storm City Hall

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 26 March 1930 · page 6

"1914—Heroes; 1930—Vagrants. Millions for Imperialist armaments, not a penny for unemployed." This was the inscription on one of many…

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Flood Area Penetrated. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1930 · page 19

Advice has been received by Mr. H. J. Bird, secretary to Sir Sidney Kidman, that Birdsville, after having been isolated for nearly five weeks, owing to the flooding of the river…

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Delayed by Floods Piper and Kay Leave Darwin Today Darwin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 March 1930 · page 5

FLOODS at Daly Waters and Newcastle Waters have caused another hitch in the plans of Flying-officers Piper and Kay…

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The Childrens Page Goody Gossamer's Rhymes. THUNDERSTORMS

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 March 1930 · page 49

Do yon like tho growly thunder, or the noisy crashing? Do you like the fiery lightning, darting, quivering, flashing?…

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Benefit From Flood Overland Route

The Sun · Friday 28 March 1930 · page 19

Overland motorists arriving during the week-end from Perth state that conditions on the overland route between Perth and Adelaide are the best they have experienced…

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Woman Who Drove the Royal Mail Mrs. Gee, of Granville, is Now 93; Memories of Record Flood

Daily Pictorial · Monday 31 March 1930 · page 5

Born 93 years ago in a cottage on the site now occupied by Mark Foy's, Ltd., Mrs. Sarah Gee, of Berry Street, Granville, can still read, write, sew, keep the house clean, and attend to her, garden…

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The Gael Cyclone And How Did It Blow

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 2

WHEN a betting cyclone got behind Gael in the first flit of yesterday's Kensington Flying, his early backers were…

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G.P.O. DELUGE Letters May Grow by Million a Day Soon

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 1 April 1930 · page 8

From next May the G.P.O. may be called on to handle another million letters daily. Organisation, including the…

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POP And the Storm Broke

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 2 April 1930 · page 17

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and the world [?]aughs with you the Orphan of the Storm

The World's News · Wednesday 2 April 1930 · page 8

MAGISTRATE: "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, deserting your wife like tills." Defendant: "If you knew my wife, your…

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Car Trains Flood Help

Evening News · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 14

When recent washaways on the Nullabor Plains near the South Australian border held up railway traffic on the East-West line for weeks it brought into…

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Calliope Gale. Captain Kane's Narrative

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 April 1930 · page 11

Saturday, the 15th ult., was the forty-first anniversary of the great hurricane at Samoa, when six foreign warships—three American and three German—were lost at Apia, and the…

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