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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1930

1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 83

Storm-Swept Ferries : "Johnnie" Carries On

Evening News · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 14

Manly ferries had a tough time in the storm to-day, Here is the Barragoola riding a huge Wave…

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Storm-bound Shipping Disorganised Danger Signals Up

The Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 15

Terrific blasts at 52 miles an hour from the south-east are lushing Sydney Heads, and a big sea is running. From Middle Head, danger signals…

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Five Cars Washed From Deck Tramp Steamer in Gale Townsville

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 1

HOW Ave valuable motor cars, part of the deck cargo of an American steamer, were washed overboard and lost during a gale was told when the…

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Fell 2000Ft. in Storm Pilot's Vivid Story of Crash

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 3

WAU, Monday.--"Soon after leaving Salamoa, we were struck suddenly by an electric storm, and the huge plane, with its 14-ton…

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Weather Bureau Issues Warnings Overnight Rain Deluge Rail, Tram and Road Traffic Suffers N' Castle Damage

Evening News · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 11

THERE is acute danger of floods in parts of the states as a results of the state as a result of the torrential rain, The Whole of the N. S. W…

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Wallsend Pit Flooded Miners Will Be Idle many months NEWCASTLE

Evening News · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 7

AS a result of the heavy rain which has fallen in the NEWcastle districts, the Wallsend C pit is flooded. It is likely…

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Queens-square Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Stephen and jury.) Alleged Damage by Flooding. Hinds v Warringah Shire Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 8

The plaintiff in this action, who is the owner and occupier of a dwelling and grounds adjoining Florida-road, Palm Beach, sued the Council of the Shire of Warringah, the local…

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Roads Blocked Cessnock Flood Waters Cessnock

The Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 13

Bain continued throughout this morning, and about midday, when the back waters came down and further swelled the creeks, water rose rapidly…

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Mine Flooded Idle for Months Newcastle

The Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 13

The Wallsend C pit is flooded, and it is likely that the employees will be idle for many months…

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Lost All Homes Flooded Boat Rescue Newcastle

The Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 13

Four families had to abandon their homes beside Cockle Creek and were sheltered on Cockle Creek railway station, having lost all their…

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Flood Dangers

The Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 15

The Weather Bureau reports that the tropical disturbance has increased in intensity, and developed cyclonic form, apparently centred to the north…

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Fierce Coastal Storms. Floods, Gales, and Landslides. Shipping Hampered. Farmlands and Houses Inundated

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 13

Floods, which threaten to become more serious, and landslides have followed the torrential downpours on the New South Wales coast. At Raymond Terrace more than nine inches of rain fell between 6 o'clock on Monday night and nightfall yesterday. The Newcastle district…

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Gales Off the Coast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 13

Very heavy seas are running off the New South Wales coast between Port Stephens and Jervis Bay. The wind is maintaining gale force north of South Head, where the wind…

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Storms Don't Worry Roys!

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 11

These lads of the Plunket-street School went to school to-day with plenty of grins, despites the fact that many other people snuggled into raincoats again the wind and rain!…

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Apperly Puts Morrison Out Thrilling Golf Play in Gale

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 23

Battling against a howling southerly gale and blinding rain, quarter-finalists in the State amateur golf championship at…

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AT 49 M.P.H. How Gale Swept Sydney

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 9

SO wild was the sea during the night that no vessel entered Sydney Harbor, the first to enter this morning being the Spirila. Which put to sea last night, but…

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Air Services Unaffected Pilots' View of Big Storm

Evening News · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 9

MR. G. U. Allan and Captain A. Peutland, pilots of the A.N.A. mad planes, Southern Sky and Southern cloud, have not experienced much of the…

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150 Cessnock Families Driven Out By the Deluge Surging Flood Waters Leave Hundreds Homeless Alarming River Rises In Hunter Valley Cause Perilous Stampede For Safety Low-lying Farms Submerged

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 3

Over 150 families in the Cessnock district yesterday were left homeless by surging flood waters. Low-lying farms in Maitland district have been completely submerged, and, in many cases, there has been…

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Storm in Union English Ruling Re Players Who Have Received Payment

Referee · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 18

THE N.S.W.R.U. recently readmitted two young players who had played under the Rugby League banner, and confessed to having received payment…

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Australia's Early Batsmen Show Fight Ship Found Went Ashore in Storm Missing for Over a Month Graphic Story

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 1

DARWIN, Tuesday. Like an adventure from the pages of some colorful drama of the sea, comes the story of the…

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