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Floods & storms, 1930

1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 83

Yesterday's Oaks Provided Sensational Race Winner Was Left Fifty Yards at Post Barbette's Great Effort Cold Shoulder's Rider Round Her Neck for Two Furlongs Race Ron in Near-gale Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 7 November 1930 · page 2

TURF sensations attended the running of The Oaks at Flemington to-day. The winner, Barbette, was left about fifty yards at the start, and Cold Shoulder followed the field for a couple of furlongs, with her jockey, H. Morris, hanging round her neck…

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Worst Ever Storm in "The Bay" Actress Plight London

The Sun · Saturday 8 November 1930 · page 1

Miss Daphne Deane, the Sydney actress, spent her first day In Lon-' don drying her clothes. "We ran into the worst storm the…

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From the Gallery. Federal Notes. Calm and Storm. (By Our Special Representative.) Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 November 1930 · page 12

There was a vacant place on the Ministerial bench when the House of Representatives met this morning. It was the place usually occupied by the Acting Treasurer (Mr. Lyons),…

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Surf Idylls, Then the Storm! Southerly Buster Due This Afternoon

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 9 November 1930 · page 2

Sunshine yesterday was the perfect beginning to the week-end, but Mr. Mares, with an eye on the unfriendly movements of the…

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Shipping INTELLIGENCE & WEATHER Looking Back Oakland Lost in Gale Four Seamen Swept to Death

Daily Pictorial · Monday 10 November 1930 · page 11

WELL Known in Sydney the steamer Oakland was wrecked off Cabbage Tree Island, near…

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Picnickers in the Storm Heat Will Give Way to Squalls To-day

Daily Pictorial · Monday 10 November 1930 · page 2

Week-end sunshine was put to flight yesterday afternoon, by a thundershower. It had little effect on temperatures, but to-day a…

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Bitter Storm Brewing for Federal Labor Scullin Throws in His Lot with Fenton and Lyons Defiance of Caucus Decision How Will Twenty-two N.S.W. Labor Members Fare? Must Be Re-shuffle of Cabinet Federal Party's Gravest Hour Canberra

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 November 1930 · page 1

ENDORSE by Mr. Sculling -- whose reputation as a loyal Labor Party man has been wrecked in a night -- Mr. Lyons insurrection has now reached a stage where the Federal Labor Party is within an inch of that abyss into which Mr. Hughes plunged it fifteen years ago…

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Heavy Storm Does Damage at Tamworth

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 11 November 1930 · page 2

TAMWORTH, Monday. -- A heavy hailstorm late this evening in the Goonoo Goonoo and Dungowan sections of the Tamworth District has, it…

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The Deluge Up-to-date Modern Noahs Annoyed Willi Railways

Evening News · Wednesday 12 November 1930 · page 5

VISIONS of the Deluge were raised at Newtown Council last night by complaints that houses in the [?] of the local railway goods yard were on…

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Far-Western Sand Storm—And Other Topics

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 12 November 1930 · page 24

Sir Kelso King, speaking at the Boy Scout rally in Camperdown Park, Sydney, on…

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Partisan Charge Storm in Q'land Parlt. Brisbane

The Sun · Wednesday 12 November 1930 · page 9

In the Legislative, Assembly this afternoon, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Forgan Smith), moved the rescission of the motion appointing…

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Storms Damage Fruit Crop Leeton

The Labor Daily · Thursday 13 November 1930 · page 5

Some damage resulted to the orchards on the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas as a result of the recent windstorm. The principal sufferers were plums and…

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"The Baby Cyclone."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 13

The Neutral Bay Players' Club presented "The Baby Cyclone," a farce-comedy in three acts, in the Mosman Town Hall last night. The play centres around a Pekingese dog,…

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Westerly Gales. Many Duststorms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 16

Unpleasant conditions, combining high temperatures with strong westerly winds and duststorms, were experienced almost generally throughout New South Wales yesterday. Fierce…

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Gales in Melbourne. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 16

Shipping was delayed considerably to-day by a strong south-westerly wind, accompanied by rain. The Tasmanian steamer Oonah, which was due at 1.30 p.m., did not berth…

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Cyclone Wrecks Burmese Port Calcutta

Evening News · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 9

A CYCLONE has practically destroyed Kyaukpyu a seaport in Burmse blowing down Government buildings Fire reduced the bazaar to a heap of…

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Gale Fury Fierce Westerly Worst for Years

The Sun · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 7

Not since the terrific storm of Easter, 1927, has New South Wales experienced such a sustained blow as that which swept over the State yesterday…

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Country News Storm Ruins Fruit Crops

The Sun · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 11

ORANGE, Friday.--The fierce windstorm yesterday spelt the ruin of many of the apple and cherry crops. Limbs were torn from the trees, and…

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Rough Time in Store Heavy Weather to Follow Gale

Daily Pictorial · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 3

THE weather! Sydney was smitten yesterday with madcap westerlies that blew clouds…

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Fishermen's Close Call Nearly Swamped Caught in Gale Three Miles Off Clifton Austinmer

The Labor Daily · Friday 14 November 1930 · page 6

Fire [?] of two fishing boats from Auslinmer were almost swamped and in constant peril in the huge soon yesterday…

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