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Floods & storms, 1932

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Watch Withstood Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 6

MR. ALEX TEAZE, Peak Hill, lost this watch six years ago near [?] Found last week, it was in going order, despite the fa[?]ha [?]…

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Breaking of the Drought Heavy Rain Falls in Tasmania

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 9

HOBART, Thursday.--After a long spell of dry weather, which was doing incalculable harm to late crops, heavy rain commenced to fall last…

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Storms in Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 10

During a storm unprecedented in its severity considerable damage was done early this morning in the Kiewa Valley. At Tawonga, 550 points of rain fell in about an hour…

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Storm Damage in Victoria

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Severe storms have passed through Victoria during the last 24 hours…

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Flood Risk

The Biz · Friday 11 March 1932 · page 5

Writing to Fairfield Council, M[?] B. A. Gillett, of We[?]erill Park, asked that pipes and the creek near her property be cleaned out, as they…

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Wangaratta Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1932 · page 5

HOME-MADE BOATS were put to use in the main street at Wangaratta (Vic.), following a deluge. Many houses were flooded…

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Cyclone in Tongan Group. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1932 · page 10

A wireless message from Nukualofa received by the Tofua yesterday stated that a cyclone passed over the Tongan group on Saturday. travelling approximately south-east. The…

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Split Looms in Country Party Ranks Fed. Tariff Proposals Raise Storm of Dissension Bitter Feeling Move to Expel Gregory Member for Swan, J W.a., Fails

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 March 1932 · page 6

RECENT happenings in the internal affairs of the Country party would indicate that it is he longer a happy family. It was…

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Storm Arises at Geneva Use of Ships of Others Geneva

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 March 1932 · page 7

Great Britain caused a storm at the Disarmament Conference when Vice-Admiral Pound proposed the deletion of the draft convention…

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Saved Mate Down Rope Into Flooded Mine MELBOURNE

The Sun · Wednesday 16 March 1932 · page 13

When the water in a flooded mine at Canadian, near Ballarat, was up to his neck, and he had given himself up for lost, Leslie Braybrook was…

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Gale Beat Him Man Worried to Death Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 17 March 1932 · page 20

Illness supervening on a nervous breakdown caused through worry in trying to refloat the old bay steamer Hygea was responsible for the death…

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Burst Main Holds UpTrams Flood at 2 a.m. Power House Stopped

The Sun · Thursday 17 March 1932 · page 15

THE tramway power house Ultimo, was put out of order at 2 a.m. to-day, when a big water main…

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Warning of River Floods

The Sun · Thursday 17 March 1932 · page 19

The Weather Bureau reports that there is danger of flooding in coastal rivers, particularly in the Shoalhaven, Nepean,…

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"Storm Clouds"

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 March 1932 · page 1

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Country News. Storm Frightens Horse. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1932 · page 12

Two brothers, Charles and John Mickleburgh, while driving along the Dungowanroad in a sulky, were overtaken by a storm. Their horse, becoming frightened, kicked the…

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Victorian Flood

The Land · Friday 18 March 1932 · page 14

Home-made boats were put to use in the main street at Wangaratta (Vic.) following a deluge last week…

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Flooding at the Ultimo Power-house

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1932 · page 14

The men on the left are shown taking the depth of the water in the flooded coal pulverising room at the power-house yesterday…

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Flood Warning. Central Coastal Rivers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1932 · page 12

A warning to residents of low-lying areas near central coastal rivers was broadcast yesterday by the Sydney Weather Bureau, advising that heavy rain in the catchment areas…

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Power-house Flooded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 March 1932 · page 12

A burst water main caused the flooding of an engine-room at the Ultimo power-house early yesterday morning. Considerable damage resulted, and trams were delayed in several…

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Flood Dangers Past

The Sun · Friday 18 March 1932 · page 11

Further heavy rain has fallen in the past 24 hours over the lower reaches of rivers from the Shoalhaven to the Manning, but…

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