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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1932

1,037 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 52

Storm Again Sweeps City

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 August 1932 · page 1

Another thunderstorm broke over the city and suburbs last evening. Temperatures dropped considerably, and a strong southerly wind blew most of the night. HEAVY rainfalls were…

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Heaven in Vivid Flame Last Night's Display Was Final Flutter Storm Tail Weather Evoked Homage Even at Bureau

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 August 1932 · page 1

If all the lightning that flashed over Sydney last night were "registered," what…

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Cyclonic Storms. Heavy Rain and Gales. Extensive Snowfalls

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 11

A cyclonic disturbance centred off the coast of New South Wales has brought heavy rains to a wide area of the State. There is some danger of floods in the far south, extensive…

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Cyclone Advances on State

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 1

AN intense cyclonic disturbance, bringing State-wide rains, posibly floods, gale-force winds and cold weather generally is…

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A Cyclone Among The Pound Notes

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 1

THERE were momentary visions of enormous wealth in the Divorce Court yesterday. Visions of free, delightful…

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The Storm Front At Bronte

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 1

Bronte Bay presented a forlorn appearance yesterday. While horses raced in from far out at sea, and huge breakers pounded at the foot of the cliffs all day long, sending up shower after shower of spray that flew far back on to the path along the top…

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Randwick Training Notes. Tracks Heavy From Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 14

In view of Saturday's engagement at Warwick Farm trainers had the guse of the course proper yesterday moming as well as the ten track but the…

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W. A. Is Lashed by Gales First Snow for Many Years

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 7

PERTH, Tuesday. -- Winds of gale force were experienced in Perth and Fremantle last night and to-day. Snow fell at Mt. Barker last night…

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Racing Gale in W.A. First Snowfall for Four Years Perth

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 5

Winds of gain force were experienced in Perth and Fremantle last night and to-day. Snow felt at Mt. Barker last night for the first…

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Fierce Thunderstorms Spoil London Bank Holiday. LONDON, Aug. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 12

The bank holiday was largely spoilt for Londoners by a storm of remarkable fierceness with blinding lightning and torrents of rain It was at its worst at Hampstead Heath…

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Newcastle Construction The Official Organ of the Newcastle Branch of the Master Builders' Association of New South Wales. Newcastle News Flood Prevention at Newcastle

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 3 August 1932 · page 10

Representatives of Municipal and Shire Councils in the Northern District who, with other bodies have interested themselves in the question of Hood prevention in the Hunter…

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Storm Driven

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 August 1932 · page 8

SEEKING SHELTER from the fury of the storm, tins baby penguin made itself quite at borne at Mr. Fred Bennett's week-end shack at…

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Heavy Snowfalls. Telephone Lines Down. Gales Delay Shipping

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 August 1932 · page 9

An extensive snowfield now covers the far southern highlands of New South Wales. Reports of heavy falls have been received from Kosciusko, Bombala, and Nimitybelle. A…

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Land at Moree Areas Granted as Flood Refuge to Graziers

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 August 1932 · page 3

THE Moree Land Board has given its decision in the matter of the Curragundi leases, and has distributed the 2477 acres as follows: D. N. Moore, 400-acres;…

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Catholic Charity and Heroism in China. Succouring the Victims of the Floods. and Father Jacquinot's Work During the Sino-japanese Conflict

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 August 1932 · page 10

WHEN the Apostle of the Gentiles declared himself purged by the love of Christ, he was not referring to an isolated and personal fact as much as to…

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Snow and Gales. in New Zealand. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 August 1932 · page 9

The greater part of New Zealand is "experier[?]cing unusually cold weather. Bitter winds, rain, sleet, and showers are reported from Dunedin. Heavy snow is falling over…

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A Deluge Buying Orders In U.S.A. New York

The Sun · Saturday 6 August 1932 · page 1

Another deluge of buying orders swept Wall-street today, and many market leaders were two to seven dollars higher…

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Steamer Tolken Driven Ashore During Fierce Gale. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 August 1932 · page 13

Driven shorewards by a flerce north-westerly gale, the Swedish steamer Tolken, which put into Port Lincoln to-day for shelter, ran aground about 300 yards from the Railway…

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Storm Scene Viewed From Charlotte Pass, Kosciusko

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 August 1932 · page 9

A raging gale drives the snow in billows along the Australian Alps…

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Exchange Bombshell Raises Storm Primary Producers' Chief Speaks His Mind

Truth · Sunday 7 August 1932 · page 12

THE most startling happening of the past week was a column length letter to the "Sydney Morning Herald" by Mr. James Kidd, Chairman of the Producers' Association Central Council, and of the Producers' Advisory Council. TO find in the pages sanctified…

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