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Floods & storms, 1932

1,037 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 52

Heat's Toll Two More Deaths Reported THUNDERSTORM

The Sun · Saturday 23 January 1932 · page 3

Two more deaths -- one yesterday afternoon and another early this morning -- have brought the heat wave total to four…

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Cattle in Trees Freak of Queensland Flood Waters

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1932 · page 1

BOWEN, Friday.--Flood waters caused extensive damage to farms and crops. Roads also suffered severely, and many horses and cattle were…

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The Girls Cliffdale Adventure in a Storm

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1932 · page 2

WITH admiring eyes the C[?]dale girls watched every action of the visiting old girls. They know that the time would come when they. too…

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Onslaught on the British Cabinet Tariff Storm Is Serious Should Freetraders Cross Floor? Lid. George's Hit London

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1932 · page 3

A political storm has been precipitated by the British Cabinet's decision that those Ministers who dissent from the new tariff proposals shall retain their portfolios, and yet he free to maintain and…

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Sultry Day With Some Thunderstorms

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1932 · page 1

METROPOLITAN forecast for to-day is: Mostly line, with cloud…

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Wrath Of The Flood

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1932 · page 3

I AM the flood. Look at me and tremble, oh, ye mortals, as well you might Brown, muddy, turbulent, I roar as I sweep along. Soon…

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Flood Rains in Nth. Q'land Burdekin and Herbert Rivers Up

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1932 · page 1

TOWNSVILLE, Saturday.--Further heavy rain in the Burdekin watershed has caused a big fresh in the river, with flood-waters two feet over…

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Floods Rise Again More Heavy Rain in Queensland

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 5

INNISFAIL, Sunday.--Heavy rains around Innisfail and upon the Atherton Tableland caused another rise in the waters of the Johnstone River…

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STORM--OVERDUE Bits From the Log of The Bopple

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 5

MARYBOROUGH (Q.), Sunday.-- There was no need to worry; the Bopple was equal to it," said Capt. J. Michelson to-day concerning the…

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North Queensland Floods Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 January 1932 · page 1

HEAVY rain further north has sent the Herbert over the railway line. Townsville reports that the…

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"Lifer" As Hero in Dartmoor Rioting Police Vigil at Great Prison Floodlights Play All Night in Courtyard; Armed Guards Patrol Gaol Brave Murderer Helped Official to Beat off Armed Convicts LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 January 1932 · page 1

Dartmoor Prison, where 400 prisoners attacked the warders at Church Parade on Sunday, leaving 70 convicts and 12 warders badly wounded, after a 20-minutes' battle, has been much in the public…

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The Daily Weather Chart Hot to very hot weather inland, broken only by isolated thunderstorms

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 January 1932 · page 9

Commonwealth Weather Bureau. Tuesday.--"As the small high pressure system mentioned yesterday moved rapidly eastward about the extreme S.E. coast ol Australia a…

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His Inferiority Complex Probing Bungendore Riddle Morbid! Boy's Tragedy Bungendore Mental Storm

The Sun · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 17

WAS it a morbid inferiority complex that drove Sidney James Morrison to immolate himself oh a funeral…

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No Sign of Missing Submarine Storm and Fogs Working Up Wreck Found London

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 1

The submarine M.2, which disappeared yesterday during diving operations off Portland, is…

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Have Flat Rate To Encourage Use of Flood Lights

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 9

At yesterday's meeting of the Electricity Committee of the City Council, Ald. Garden suggested that a special flat rate for current be fixed,…

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Naval Aid Rushed to Sunken Submarine Crew of 56 May Live For 80 Hours If Vessel Not Flooded Admiralty Ships Reported Standing by Thirty Anxious Hours and No Sign Divers Will Tap Stricken Submarine Saw Sister's Doom London, Wednesday, 6.55 a.m

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 1

Off Portland, warships are grouped in a wide circle over the spot where the Admiralty thinks the aircraft- carrying submarine M2 sank during exercises after a dive at 10.30 a.m. yesterday…

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Flood of Athletes Melbourne Invaded for National Games

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- The influx of inter-State athletes, swimmers, boxers, wrestlers, and cyclists to Melbourne, for the National…

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The Daily Weather Chart Hot to very hot weather generally at first, with scattered thunderstorms developing

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 January 1932 · page 17

Commonwealth Weather Bureau, Wednesday.--"The intense heat which has been so long in evidence over eastern and central Australia has, if anything, become…

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Storm Damages Electric Service

The Biz · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 7

The electrical engineer reported to Cabra-Vale Council that an electric storm had caused a serious breakdown on December 31. Liquid and…

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Tax Deluge Democrats to Oppose Hoover Plan Washington

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 7

THE Democratic majority intends to frame a new revenue Dill and oppose the Hoover plan of bringing 1,700,000 small income-earning…

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