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Floods & storms, 1932

1,037 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 52

Cyclone Passes. Coastal Conditions Improve

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 13

With the passage of the cyclone eastward, conditions rapidly moderated on the New South Wales coast yesterday. Seas off the coast steadily subsided, whilst…

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All Clear Again for Shipping Storm and Flood Danger Over

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 7

After six days of stormy weather with driving wind and rain, Sydney woke up yesterday morning to sunshine and blue…

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Shipping Resumes After Storm Hold-up

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 12

The tanker British Lady (left), which had been forced to remain off the port all night, entering the Heads yesterday, whilst an interstate freighter is shown leaving…

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Windfall From the Cyclone Treasure Hunt on Beaches Lost Coins Recovered

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 1

IT'S an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and the beach treasure -hunters gathered a windfall from the cyclone. At Manly, after the beach had been churned up by…

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Tourists' Trials N.S.W. Parties Caught In Gippsland Floods MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 16

A party of two girls and a man from New South Wales were among the tourists stranded in the recent floods at Cann River, East Gippsland…

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Flood Danger Is Past All Shipping Is Resumed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 July 1932 · page 1

With the passing of the cyclone from the Now South Wales coast there will be a decided improvement in the weather…

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For Gale Victims

The Sun · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 9

A cheque for £1 1s, from Mrs. Brasnett, of Gordon, and a 10s note [?]rom "C.W.R.," has been handed to Mr. Iredale, of Yarra Bay, whose…

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It Must Have Been a Great Deluge Golfers Said "Enough" London

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 July 1932 · page 1

FOR the first time in the history of golf a whole day's play in an important tournament…

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Our Biggest Legal Battle No. 3 Geo. Dean's Conviction Arouses a Storm Strong Protests Give Rise To Royal Commission How Meagher Took War Into Enemy's Camp Fatal Challenge To Sir Julian Salomons

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 16 July 1932 · page 16

WITH the verdict of guilty and sentence of death, the courts of law had for the time being finished with George Dean. Another tribunal was to…

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The Storm

The Sun · Sunday 17 July 1932 · page 3

IT had been a hot and sultry day. A storm was inevitable. Huge storm clouds gathered, and before three o'clock the whole landscape…

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Super Football That Beat Australia How England Turned Tables Smith's Third Try Was Clincher Tourists Calm In Storm Our Mighty Effort

The Sun · Sunday 17 July 1932 · page 15

AGAIN England has won the Ashes of the Rugby League world, for yesterday its footballers beat those of Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the deciding Test by 18 points to 13, after having been behind nine to three at half time and 11-3 early in the second…

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Cold Early, Then Fine To-day Anti- Cyclone Ruled the Week-end

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 July 1932 · page 5

A week ago a cyclone was lushing the coast. Last week-end an anti- cyclone was the chief "control," and the weather was fine and mild…

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Drain on Council Rose Bay Storm Water Problem

The Sun · Tuesday 19 July 1932 · page 5

A deputation from the Waverley Council, which is finding the Rose Bay stormwater drain a heavy financial burden, to-day asked the…

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Gales Delay Ships

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 July 1932 · page 8

PERTH, Tuesday.--The Largs Bay has been delayed by strong gales, and will not arrive at Fremantle until to-morrow morning…

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Vic. Road Cyclists Were Badly Buffeted Gale Conditions For Big Handicap Events

Referee · Wednesday 20 July 1932 · page 23

Cycling in a wind so strong that some fielders were blown from their machines by it, and the speed of the fields was slowed down to less than 10 miles an hour, made gruelling tests of the open long distance handicaps for amateurs and…

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Whipped Up Mad Sea Storm Batters Australian Wheat Ship LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 20 July 1932 · page 1

BADLY damaged in the storm which almost sank the Parma, the four-masted Swedish barque C. B. Pedersen arrived at…

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"Loading of Jury" Storm at M.u.i.o.o.f. Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 July 1932 · page 8

"I rise to protest against a loaded jury," said District Secretary C. H. Turtle, yesterday at the M.U.I.O.O.F. conference…

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Gale hashes Wheat Ship

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 5

AFTER encountering a terrific hurricane, which resulted in the death of one of the crew. and carried away part of her rigging, the Swedish four-masted barque C. B. Pedersen, carrying wheat from Australia, has arrived at Ipswich, according to cable…

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A Cyclonic Fury. After the Storm in Sierra Leone

The Catholic Press · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 35

A cyclone hit the Catholic mission station of Mobe, on the banks of the River Kittam, Sierra Leone, recently, and the next day the missionary discovered parts of one…

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Facing Ruin Flooded-out Settlers at Lake Urana

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 12

THE big floods of last year filled Lake Urans, completely inundating the farms of seven soldier settlers. It will be remembered that the settlers blew up…

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