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Floods & storms, 1930

1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 83

Rain in Queensland. Drought Areas Benefit. Floods at Cloncurry. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 13

Heavy rains fell in north-western parts of the State yesterday, causing floods in the Cloncurry district. Over five inches fell at Mt. Isa, and the…

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Danger of Flooding. Newcastle Mines. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 14

Anxious eyes are watching the attempts made by mines on the Newcastle field to fight against the danger of flooding with their improvised safety staffs…

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Grave Fears of Mine Floods Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 5

POLICE guards have been stationed at the whole of the lower coalfields collieries. Any moves to be made by the men…

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Lonely Voyages Storms and Sharks

The Sun · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 7

Across the stormy Atlantic in an 18 footer sailing boat is a hair-raising experience, but it has been done more than once…

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Flooding Danger. Position at Wallsend. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1930 · page 17

So far, no satisfactory arrangements have been reached for the provision of safety staffs now lacking at the easily flooded Wallsend mines as the result of mass picketing…

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Fishing Schooner Drifts on Brink of Disaster For 48 Days Thirty Miles From Port She Is Battered 2600 MILES Grew Faces Death in Terrible Atlantic Gales: Glass of Water a Day Record of Terror, Suffering, Bravery London

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 January 1930 · page 4

Thirty miles from her destination -- St. Johns, Newfoundland -- the fishing schooner, Neptune, a new vessel, ran into continuous gales, and the voyage ended yesterday, 48 days later, at Tobermory,…

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Cyclone in North Cairns

Evening News · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 5

A cyclone warning issued at 9 p.m yesterday stated "a cyclone of moderate intensity was centred at 8 p.m. to the north of Walls Island, and is moving…

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Cyclone Season N. Queensland Catching It Cairns

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 15

"A cyclone centred at 9 a.m. northeast from Cooktown is small, but intense, and apparently is moving due west."…

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Five Die Night of Terror Storm Fury

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 10

A vivid story of a night of terror in a 120-miles-an-hour cyclone, experienced by a handful of white people on one of the…

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Storm-lashed British Steamer in Peril Race to Rescue Vancouver

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 1

Several steamers are racing to the aid of the storm-battered British freighter North Pacific (3900 tons) which is in peril…

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Near Rail Disaster Through Drift Sand Engine Off the Line in 40-mile Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Running into drift sand blown across the rails by a 40-miles-an-hour gale, the engine of a mixed passenger train left…

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Splendid Week-end for Surfing Mr. Mares Expects Cool Change and Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 5

The time the mercury had climbed to its highest on Saturday--100 degrees at half-past 2--all, or nearly all, were in the water…

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Saturday's First Nights "The Enemy" Powerful Drama Emotional Storm at the Palace

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 7

AS the world is placed at the present time, on the eve of the Nation's greatest--and accordingly most sincere--attempt to abolish war by…

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Filling with Water S.O.S. Calls from Storm battered Ship VANCOUVER

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

THE British freihgter North Pacific has sent out wireless signals of distress 320 miles…

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Storm Brews Why S.A. Went in Again Cheap Wickets Richardson's Lone Hand Brisbane

The Sun · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 11

With the second ball of the [?]t over at the Exhibition Ground to-day, in the Queensland v. S.A. Shield match, Higgins, who was…

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Marts—money and Mines Briseis Tin Disastrous Flood Assets Destroyed

Evening News · Monday 20 January 1930 · page 4

The accounts of the Brisels Tin and Mining Co., Ltd., are more belated than usual. There a working profit for 1978 of £3307, and £10,807 was brought…

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Queensland Cyclone. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 12

Special observations made by the Weather Bureau at 8 p.m. showed that a cyclone was centred north from Cooktown. It had only a slight intensity, and apparently was moving…

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Losing Force Queensland Cyclone Cairns

The Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 12

Though the railway line was six inches under water at Gordonvale, at 6 a.m. today, it is now clear, and all railway services are running to…

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Night of Terror. in Fiji Cyclone. Woman Relates Experience

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 11

Caught in the full fury of the cyclone which swept Vanua Levu, in the Fiji Islands, recently, Mrs. Trevor Jones spent a night of terror. She lost everything she possessed…

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Stock Exchange Boom That Burst Crew's Ordeal Steamer Wreck in Fijian Cyclone Auckland, [?]

Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 9

THE ordeal of Captain [?] his 12-years-old son [?] engineer, and two sailors fo[?] wreck of the Fijian Gover[?]…

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