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Floods & storms, 1931

1,487 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 75

Distress Occasioned Among the Occupants of Unemployment Camps in the Suburbs by This Week's Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 14

REPAIRING THE DAMAGE YESTERDAY AT THE LIDCOMBE CAMP. A PARTLY SUBMERGED HUT AT HAPPY VALLEY, LA PEROUSE…

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Cyclone Caused Interruptions To Track Work Watery Conditions for Training Work But Candidates Kept Fit for Their Rosehill Engagements Road and Hill Work Helped Them

Arrow · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 5

Track work this week has been at a low ebb on all courses. Even on Thursday after the storm had blown Itself out, most of the courses were inundated and fast galloping on the rinks was out of the question. Teams in all the training centres have been working about the sandhills, along…

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Course Will Be Right Floods Haven't Hurt Rosehill

Arrow · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 5

UNLESS there are further heavy rains, Rosehill course on Saturday will be thoroughly fit for racing, and even if the going is a trifle heavy…

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Biggest Flood Since 1870

The Land · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 15

Oaklands (Polyp): Our house is situated on fairly high land, but some of our neighbors are actually flooded out, and some of them have been forced to evacuate. Nearly all the…

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Flood Conditions This Week at Hay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 14

A family, which was flooded out of home by the flood at Hay this week, camped in the vicinity of the local cemetery…

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General Rain. Danger of Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 12

A raln-bringing disturbance has resulted in generally unsettled weather over New South Wales. Yesterday afternoon rain was falling at many places inland and on the south…

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Flood Mitigation. Conference at Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 9

WAGGA, Thursday.—An important conference was held yesterday at the town hall of leading settlers and business men of the Wagga and Gundagai districts to devise means of…

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Communist Party Protects Residents Workers Endangered by Flooded Dam

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 3

The homes of workers in North Broken Hill have been in danger for some time of being flooded out. The danger arises from the flooding…

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Flood Lighting for Oval

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 7

With a view to assisting athletes using No. 2 ground at North Sydney Oval, the local council has decided to spend £69 on installing flood lighting…

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The Daily Weather Chart Unsettled weather with rain. Some heavy falls inland, with thunderstorms

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 13

Commonwealth Weather Bureau, Thursday. -- "With the progressive eastward movement over the Tasman Sea of the recent severe cyclone, the weather in eastern parts…

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Storm Fury Great "Dandenong Gale" 153 Miles an Hour How Ship and 40 Lives Were Lost

The Sun · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 7

It is well nigh 55 years ago that one of the greatest storms that ever occurred on the coast of New South Wales brought about the foundering of the Howard Smith interstate steamer Dandenong, with the loss of 40 lives…

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Recent Storm. Dubbo Flood Victim. Body Found at Warren. Warren

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 11

The body of a man found near the regulator at Warren weir yesterday was identified to-day as that of Andrew Peck, who was drowned when a boat capsized on the…

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In the Garden. After the Great Gales. (By "Redgum.")

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 5

Thousands of amateur gardeners who were hopeful and happy last Saturday, with their eyes and minds busy watching and working for the coming of spring and the return of…

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Sydney's Cyclone Heaviest Fall of Rain Since 1889

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 3

ONE of the worst cyclonic disturbances in the history of Australia struck the N.S.W. coast on Monday night. Sydney was the centre and received the…

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Result of Storm Big Strain on Fund Committee Thanks Pulic

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 8

DURING the past three very wet nights nearly 400 men were provided with shelter by the…

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Heard by the Way The Exclusive Church—Lateness of Penrith Folk—Aldermen Storm Bound—Sunday Music—Won His Own Chooks, etc. No Music on

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 1

AN application by the licensee of the Astoria Hotel, Bluckheath, for permission to have social music on the premises on certain days came before…

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The Flood

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 11

"QUINCE BLOSSOM" (Lucknow).—I am fifteen years of age, and I live two miles from the once famous old gold-mining township of Lucknow, where upwards of twenty…

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Damage by Floods. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 12

The Mayor (Alderman Collins), in a minute dealing with flood damage, expressed appreciation of the efforts of municipal officials to maintain essential services during the…

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Severe Thunderstorm Interrupts Royal Garden Party. LONDON, July 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 July 1931 · page 11

A torrential thunderstorm at the height of the festivities compelled the abandonment of the Royal garden party at Holyrood Palace, The guests rushed the gates to board trams…

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What Storm Did

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 July 1931 · page 6

Eastwood Council's overseer reported in respect to certain drainage work in Lovell-road that "four pounds would have sufficed for this job last week, but…

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