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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1930

1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 83

Dairying Position and Outlook' Very Satisfactory Despite the Flood Handicaps

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 July 1930 · page 7

Allowing for the necessary winter falling-off in supplies of milk and cream, and' too much rain and flood. In some districts, and the…

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Flood of Foreign Products British Bankers Alarmed for Home Market LONDON

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 5 July 1930 · page 4

THAT Britain's market should be open to Empire products and a duty imposed on foreign imports was the opinion expressed to-day by a…

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More Rain; More Floods! Bad For City--Good For Country

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 5 July 1930 · page 2

General rain at the week-end was last night's prediction of the weather man, Mr. Camm. FURTHER rain is likely to-day on…

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Floods Feared Gwydir Rising Moree

The Sun · Sunday 6 July 1930 · page 23

Further rain fell over the Moree and Mungindi districts last night, and registrations to 9 a.m. to-day were: Mungindi 20 points, Moree 8, Boomi…

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Cyclone Went South Weather Prank That Gave Sydney a Fine Day

Evening News · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 9

SYDNEY got a sunny day yesterday, and a fine one to-day, because a small cyclone, which had threatened a deluge, with…

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Beating the Flood

Evening News · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 6

FEAR of renewed floods which luckily proved groundless will keep the efforts to provide precautions, besides the setting aside of Richmond Common, on the Hawkesbury, as a…

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Fine at Last. Disturbance Passes. Flood Fears Abate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 16

yesterday's fine weather, a welcome break from the monotony of continuous rain, was a result of the movement southward of the cyclonic disturbance which caused Saturday's…

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Flood Refuge Area

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 16

The Minister for Lands has informed public bodies in the Hawkesbury district that an area of 50 acres, portion of the Richmond Common, has been reserved for a public refuge in times…

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New Railways Urged. to Prevent Flood Isolation. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 8

Cessnock Chamber of Commerce has made an oppeal to all public bodies on the coalfield to nominate representatives to form a league to agitate for the construction of a railway…

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New Dole Scheme Flood Victims Relief in North

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 6

Storekeepers as well as those compelled to seek support in the shape of the dole are pleased that, according to communication received from…

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Floods Again in the North? Maitland

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 1

ONCE again the Hunter River is rising and flood dangers, although remote are possible, in some areas…

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In August Instead of September Parlt. to Rise Scullin to Act As Treasurer Storm To-day Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 1

IT is now practically certain tha Parliament will rise in the middle of August--before Mr. Scullin leaves for abroad--instead…

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Floods in Japan. Tokio, July 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 9

Twenty-seven persons are reported to have been drowned and thousands are homeless through floods at Yomngataken. There have been excessive rains, the rivers rising 20 feet,…

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Storm Breaks Over Sunday Sport for Charity Head of River Sensation Protest Lodged Against High Crew

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 9 July 1930 · page 4

Sydney High School, winners of the 1930 G.P.S. regatta, may yet be deprived of victory if a protest, said to have been lodged by another…

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FLOODS. In Western Australia. Railway Washaways. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 July 1930 · page 17

Heavy rains have fallen in coastal districts during the past few days. Wheat growing areas have benefited greatly. The Swan River is about four feet above normal low water, and…

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Pasturage for Flooded Areas. Successful Grass Mixture

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 July 1930 · page 11

Last senson, after the floods on the Macleay, (luring which many hundreds of acres were affected in the Kempsey district, the Departmental Agrostologlst (Mr. J. N, Whittet)…

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Wedding Held Up by Floods

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 9 July 1930 · page 20

THE telegraph and telephone wires worked overtime yesterday telling friends all over the Commonwealth that the wedding of Janette Collins,…

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The LIBRARY An Old Salt's Memories of the Sea, A Young Man's Views on World Politics, and Three Novels "The Roaring 'Forties," by D. J. Munro. "The Impending Storm," by Somerset de Chaire. "Splendour of God," by Honore Willsie Morrow. "The League of Discontent," by Francis Bedding. "Fool's Goal," by B. M. Bower

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 July 1930 · page 16

ALL books upon the sea and the men that go down thereto in ships have a special appeal for me; consequently I seized upon "The Roaring 'Forties—And After," by Captain D. J. Munro, R.N., C.M.G. (Samson…

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Flood Dangers. Diminishing at Perth. Serious Wash a Ways. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 15

The danger of serious floods in the metropolitan area was considerably removed to-day by fine weather and the absence of gales from the west to bank up the waters in the estuary…

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Huge Drainage Subway Costly Work Clearing Flood Waters

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 8

SOUTH MAITLAND, Wednesday.--To draw away flood waters on low-lying areas and allow rich land to be cultivated, a shires and…

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