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Floods & storms, 1931

1,487 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 75

Gale Affects Shipping Freighter Turns Back Coasters Shelter

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 April 1931 · page 11

Rough seas, caused by the southerly gale, yesterday hampered shipping off the New South Wales coast. The British steamer Nollington…

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Sample Bag Craze Crowd Storms Trade Pavilion Bargain Hunt

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 April 1931 · page 10

Until the industrial pavilions swarmed with eager crowds yesterday, it seemed that the reign of sample bags at the Show had…

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Looking Back Foundered in Gale Crew of French Barque Saved

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 April 1931 · page 11

A timely rescue of the crew of the French barque, Ville d'Orleans, was made off Tasmania on July 9, 1902, when she sprang a leak, and…

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Rangi Arrives After Calms and Storms. Last in the Tasman Race

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 April 1931 · page 11

After 20 days at sea, the cutter-rigged yacht Rangi, third contestant in the Transtasman yacht race, reached Sydney at 5.30 o'clock yesterday morning. The vessel was three…

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Rangi Sups Into Port 19 Days Out Romantic Trip on Tasman Sea Many Storms

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 April 1931 · page 9

Becalmed for days at a stretch, overtaken by severe storms, and generally battered by the elements, the Auckland yacht, Rangi, made Port…

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Floods in N.Z. Karamea Isolated. WELLINGTON

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 April 1931 · page 12

A northerly wind, sometimes reaching hurricane force and accompanied by heavy rain, swept over Wellington last night, and to-day the Hutt River is in heavy flood, the water…

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Rum Money. Early Currencies of N.s.w. Holey Dollar Device Community Flooded with Nondescript Paper

The Sun · Saturday 4 April 1931 · page 7

The growth of currency from the early days of New South Wales, is a wide subject, and, within the compass of a brief article such as this, it is only possible to tell the story in outline, collated from records and publications, of the dearth of coin sterling in the…

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Three Lives N.Z. Gale's Toll High Floods Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Sunday 5 April 1931 · page 1

At least three lives were lost in terrific gales and rain storms which swept New Zealand on both sides of Cook Strait yesterday…

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Resent Coming Into My Room at 5 a.m.," Wrote Frail Wife in Diary Ferry Chief in Storm Called Civil Servant's Wife "My Dear Sunshine": Now It's Cloudy Social Lights in Divorce

Truth · Sunday 5 April 1931 · page 10

MR. WALTER LESLIE DENDY helps to control a fleet of steamers on Sydney Harbor, but he could not avoid a collision between his matrimonial bark and that of well-known civil servant Arthur Edmund Carpenter…

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Wet Trip From Barrier in Flood Three Days Late

The Sun · Sunday 5 April 1931 · page 2

Passengers by the Broken Hill train which reached Sydney yesterday, three days late owing to washaways, told graphic stories…

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Heavy Rain in N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 April 1931 · page 8

At Zamham, near Nelson, 23½ inches of rain tell in 24 hours. The weather is clearing, and floods are subsiding…

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Queensland Rivers in Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 April 1931 · page 6

CHAHLEVILLE, Sunday.--The rivers in the Charleville district have flooded and are running a quarter of a mile wide. Mails are held up, and communication is…

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Machinery. Cyclone Fences and Gates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1931 · page 10

At No. 19 See-road, the Cyclone Fence and Gate Co. Proprietary, Ltd., is displaying a full range of gates and fences. An interesting feature is an exhibit of ornamental panels…

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Our... Short Story Out of the Storm

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 5

A MID-DECEMBER thaw had thinned the snow to a mere crust, with her and there patches of grayish vegetation or the dark soil of jutting lignite…

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Breden's Deputy Also Quits Civil Service Storm to Come

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 April 1931 · page 4

THE rot in the Assets Department of the City Council has set in with a venga[?]nes. Yesterday, following Mr. J. N…

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City Flood Big Main Bursts Cold Plunge

The Sun · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 9

Tearing a huge hole in the sidewalk, and hurling soil and asphalt high into the air, a burst 12-inch water-main caused…

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Burst Main Causes Damage Streets and Basements Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 7

Several basements were flooded and portion of York Street was turned into a miniature lake early this morning when a water main burst near…

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Storm Near Broome. Fate of Luggers. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 17

Mr. Otto W. Blackman, fleet manager for Streeter and Mnle, whose schooner Muriel survived the storm near Broome on the night of March 26. states that all his clothing was…

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Looking Back Crew Injured in Gale Neotsfield Ordeal in Southern Ocean

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 13

A HURRICANE with mountainous seas nearly accounted for the ship Neotsfield in the Southern Ocean in August, 1902, while bound from…

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In Worse Storms Without Mishap A.n.a. 'Planes Their Fine Record Air Inquiry Experts' Evidence

The Sun · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 7

That the A.N.A. 'plane Southern Cloud probably flew into a violent storm near the Victorian border was told by experts,…

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