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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1930

1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 83

Cheap Wheat Equals 1914 Depression Deluge of Selling Chicago

The Sun · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 10

Wheat is now below 3s 4d a bushel, the lowest price in 18 years. WINNIPEG, Sunday. Wheat on Saturday went below the…

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Forced Down by Snow Storm! Remarkable Experience of A.N.A. Mail 'Plane

Daily Pictorial · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 2

CANBERRA, Sunday.--After battling for hours with a terrific snowstorm the A.N.A. 'plane, Southern Cloud, carrying four…

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Gale-swept in Tasman Ships Late; Where Is Tiny Awahou

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 16 September 1930 · page 3

Strong westerly gales and high seas in the Tasman Sea during the last few days have shattered shipping timetables…

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Packet Battered By Gales: Disarming a Bandit

Evening News · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 10

Above: The packet, Awahou, which reached Sydney to-day after she had received an unmerciful battering Left: Giving the…

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Fight with Seas Little Vessel Meets Fierce Storm

Evening News · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 4

AFTER battling through a fierce storm for seven days the motor ship Awahou crept into Sydney Harbor early to-day from Auckland…

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Gale Bares Skeleton--Murder Fractures ? Grim Discovery Among Cronulla Dunes Appalled Finder; Foul Play Fears Bones Not Cast Up by the Sea. Artist Mistook It for Cuttlefish

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 3

FIERCE GALES, which whipped the sand dunes at Cronulla recentlym, uncovered the skeleton of a child yesterday, and on the skull were fractures which seem to indicate murder…

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Flood Prevention Delayed

The Sun · Wednesday 17 September 1930 · page 13

KEMPSEY, Wednesday.--It now is questionable if the municipal council can avail itself of the £1700 unemployment grant for carrying out flood…

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The Deluge and the Bible. Authenticity of Scriptural Accounts

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 44

Leading scientists, religious leaders, and consular officials listened to the Rev. Father Dhorme, O.P., Director of the Bibical and Archaeological School of the…

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Property Flooded Fruit Trees Killed Auburn Drain Overflows

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 3

Continual flooding of a property in Auburn has killed several fruit trees, washed away a bridge across a drain, and has…

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Country News £10,000 for Flood Prevention Big Relief Scheme For Coraki District

Daily Pictorial · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 15

CORAKI, Thursday.--The Richmond River Flood Relief Committee last night adopted a report by Surveyor Wearne for a scheme to…

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Flood Protection at Grafton. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 14

At a meeting of the Grafton Chamber of Commerce Mr. Barton Barnier brought up the question of flood protection and the formation of the proposed drainage union of…

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What Flood Brought Return of the Platypus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 9

Two summers ago there lived in our swimming pool, in the deepest part of the river, three platypus, the father, the mother, and the baby…

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Fierce Gale. Sweeps English Channel. Shipping Severely Battered. London, Sept. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 10

A heavy south-westerly gale is sweeping Britain to-day, and very rough seas are raging on the coast. The gale began last night. A wind velocity…

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Ashore Channel Gale's Victims All Saved Tug to Rescue London

The Sun · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 1

Several vessels were driven ashore to-day by the gale which is raging in the English Channel, but, fortunately, no lives were…

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Gale Almost Stops 'Plane! Seas in Town: Ships Badly Battered LONDON

Daily Pictorial · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 4

Ships were in distress; an airliner was almost brought to a standstill; trains collided; trees were uprooted, and crops destroyed…

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Gale Rages in Britain Trains Collide Ships Battered in Channel Lifeboats Out London, Sunday. (British Official Wireless.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 5

A HEAVY south-wasterly cafe is being experienced in Britain, and very rough seas are raging round the coasts…

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Squalls Cool Change Coming May Be Thunderstorm

The Sun · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 9

Sydney can prepare for a strong and squally cool change this evening. Mr. Mares said to-day that a very intense form of southern disturbance…

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Channel Gale. Fierceness Abated. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Sept. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 9

Although the weather is still boisterous, with Further severe storms promised, yesterday's violent gale moderated somewhat during the day Channel steamers on Continental…

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Not Suffered Unduly Assoc. Newspapers' Circular Weathering Storm

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 2

The acting chairman of directors of Associated Newspapers, Ltd. (Mr, Sydney Snow) has circularised…

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Storm Goes to Sea Boisterous Morning Visit Should Be Fine

Evening News · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 7

THE intense southerly disturbance which visited Sydney in the early hours of to-day, continued its eastward trip out into the Tasman…

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