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Floods & storms, 1930

1,653 stories in Sydney's papers · page 73 of 83

Gale Delays Indies Cricketers Here To-day

The Sun · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 9

Cricketers from the West Indies apparently have found the Tasman In a nasty mood. Their ship, the Ulimar[?]a, did not…

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Fire and Gale Damages To-Day-- New Sydney-Brisbane Record

The Sun · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 16

FIERCE GUST of wind to-day swept Mr. G. Lewis's store in West Botany- street, Arncliffe, and left & trail of damage as shown above. BELOW are English Girl Guides, due hero on Wednesday,…

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Rain in Dry Areas Beneficial Result of Storm

Evening News · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 3

THE past 24 hours has brought much-needed rain to the inland districts of N.S.W. "Useful fallS have occurred cast of a…

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Blown on to Tracks Rail Station One of Many Gale Wrecks

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday. - Sweeping through the Wallangarra district this afternoon, an 80-mile-an-hour gale hurled Lyra railway station…

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Heavy Storm at Tamworth Many Wheat Crops Beaten to the Ground

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 15

TAMWORTH, Monday. -- A violent storm, broke over this district this afternoon. It was accompanied by strong wind and hail, and was…

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Cricket Delegates Haggle Like a Mothers' Meeting Storm in a Tea Cup Four Hours Too Long for Grade Players Social Side of Cricket

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 3

BECAUSE two grade clubs flouted the ruling of the New South Wales Cricket Association, and took a tea interval in a recent grade match, Association delegates haggled last night like a mothers' meeting anent the desirability of an interval in…

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Sydney Whipped and Battered by the Fury of the Storm Houses Unroofed and Trees Torn Down Country Towns Also Suffer Damage Many Lucky Escapes

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 1

HUGE boughs torn from threshing trees and flung pell-mell in any and every direction as though by some giant hand, houses unroofed, telegraph wires ripped from their holdings, and hundreds of fences destroyed…

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Winds Abating. Gales Delay Steamers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 14

Although the westerly winds reached a velocity of 48 miles an hour at Sydney early yesterday morning, they had abated considerably by nightfall, and a rapid improvement…

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Gale Costs Showground £50 CESSNOCK

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 6

Damage to the extent of £50 was caused at Cessnock Showground by yesterday's wind storm, Iron roofing from the horse stalls was lifted and carried a distance…

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The Daily Weather Chart Westerly gales over south-eastern States; thunderstorms in New South Wales

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 11

Commonwealth Weather Bureau, Tuesday.--"The outstanding feature in…

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Storms Delay Cadet Ships Hove-to for Hours Australia and Devon

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 6

After encountering severe storms around the Australian coast two British cadet ships, the British India steamer Australia, and the Federal…

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Federal Storm Brewing "Give Work" Is New Caucus Cry

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--"Do members want to see the streets of Australia running with blood?" MR. D. RIORDAN, from the far…

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Shipping INTELLIGENCE & WEATHER Looking Back Karamu Lost Off Strachan Crew Transferred in Gale

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 11

While leaving Strachan (Tasmania), on September 4, 1925, the Union Steamship Company's steamer Karamu struck the bar, and soon…

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Rough Time for Santa Claus Soviet Gets Ready With "Storm Forces" RIGA

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 4

Santa Claus and his attendant carol singers are in for a rough time if they include Russia in their Christmas itinerary…

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Gale Batters Freighter

The Sun · Thursday 20 November 1930 · page 17

The storm that struck Sydney last week-end battered the British freighter Australia, which reached Sydney to-day from Liverpool, via…

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Storm : Flood Victims [?]Ma City

Evening News · Thursday 20 November 1930 · page 1

TWENTY-THREE people were killed and 100 injured to-day when a tornado wiped out the village of Bethany. It struck…

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Deluge of Letters a Witness Persecuted Dress Evidence Adelaide

The Sun · Thursday 20 November 1930 · page 15

Mr. Thomas C. Craven, a director of J. Craven and Co., Ltd., drapers, who said on Tuesday at the inquiry into the basic wage for women that a…

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Gale's Fury Damage on Southern Line Houses Unroofed

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1930 · page 13

Extensive damage was done to property on the southern line by temp[?]tuous headwinds on Monday. Unroofed houses and prostrate trees…

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Fury Flood and Storm Toll Many Die Village Wiped Out Oklahoma City

The Sun · Thursday 20 November 1930 · page 1

A tornado wiped out the village of Bethany to-day, striking the school and destroying two buildings. Twenty-three persons were…

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Constantine Is Upon Us! Cricket Cyclone From The Indies

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 20 November 1930 · page 4

THE staid old stands of the Cricket Ground must have surely felt yesterday that there…

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