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1,037 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 52
NEVER before in the history of Australia has Nature smiled so generously on this fair land as in 1932. Productivity has been phenomenal, and the producers in all branches of the primary industries have had bumper crops, record…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Union intercolonial liner Monowai arrived at 7 o'clock this morning after having experienced a north-easterly gale for the first 36 hours out from Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The novel experiment of playing a game of bowls by flood gaslighting was tried at Ashton-under-Lyne (Eng.), on November 15, with great success. The green…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Compensation by Water and Sewerage Board. The Water Board, at its last meeting, agreed to the amicable settlement of compensation claims for flood damage suffered by lessees…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A MOTORIST in Swan Street, Richmond, Vic., hit a water hydrant when he swerved to avoid, a child. The top snapped off the hydrant, and the street was quickly flooded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The electrical engineer reported to Dundas Council that during the storm last Thursday flying debris had wrought such damage to the installations at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE "Canberra Times" has worked itself into a cold fury at the prospects of the Federal Government asking the parents of children at Canberra to pay for high school education—if they want it. "This means," says our hysterical contemporary, "the abolition not only of public education for secondary pupils,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Skippers and their crews were severely tested yesterday in the first heat of the Australian 12-foot skiffs championship…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HEAT - WAVE conditions were experienced in Sydney yesterday, when the maximum temperature reached 97.4…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FOUR persons nearly lost their lives at Brighton-le-Sands last night, when their launch received a severe buffetting by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WHEAT received at the silos this season passed last season's total on Wednesday, the figure at the close of that day being 24,517,000 bushels,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reporting on the trials of various strains of early potatoes on the Hunter and Hawkesbury, Mr. A. C. Orman, agricultural instructor, says…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Mares, State Meteorologist, stated last night that during the day a tropical depression settled over the south-east States, and was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT the height of last evening's fierce electrical storm, a young married woman had a remarkable escape from death…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A severe thunderstorm deluged the city at 6 o'clock yesterday evening. Extremely heavy rain, accompanied by vivid lightning and crashes of thunder, lasted for about half an…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →City and suburbs were awash in banking Streams of water yesterday evening, when, between 6 and 6.30, rain fell at the rate of three inches an hour. Hundreds of shops were flooded, and stock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE FRIDAY NIGHT STAFF of Lewis Symonds' furniture warehouse had a job not on the schedule yesterday--that of clearing up storm damage. Note the high-water-mark on the day-bed…
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