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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 67

Storm Damage Repairs Urged

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 1

CANTERBURY COUNCIL has acted the Government for an advance of £2000 to repair the damage…

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Safe in Port After Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 16

The auxiliary schooner Huia, which was delayed for nearly a week owing to heavy weather, on arrival in Sydney Harbour yesterday…

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Battle with Storm. Small Vessel's Ordeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 10

The small coaster Huia entered the Heads early yesterday morning after more than a week's battle with head win[?] and heavy seas since she left Melbourne. Only for the storm…

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Q'land Storm Damage Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 4

Further storms have deluged many areas of the State. In some parts, flooding occurred, and hall and wind caused damage on the North Coast…

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Orphan of Storm Has One Wish

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

The heart of the public has been touched by the sad plight of Laurel Davis, the 16-year-old survivor of the Stanwell Park…

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ENTANGLED Strange Death In Storm BATHURST

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 6

Strange features were revealed at the inquest concerning the death of Joseph Hemmings, 66, retired railwayman, whose dead body was found…

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Storm Terrors Girl Deafened By Thunder DORRIGO

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

Hearing his wife screaming Henry Corpse, a farmer, rushed into the cowbails and noticed his child being dragged from under a cow by his…

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Washaways. Prince's Highway Blocked on Far South Coast. Storms and Landslides

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 13

Serious washaways and landslides, following continuous heavy rain, have completely blocked the Prince's Highway, between Eden, on the far South Coast, and the Victorian border,…

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Sympathy for Storm Orphan Mental Anguish Fund Is Growing

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 5

AS she recover from the effects of the severe physical she received on the night of horror at…

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Flood Waters Rescuing Cattle Traffic Blocked at St. Marys

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 1

The heavy rains at the end of last week and the beginning of this week produced a rapid rise in Nepean River and South Creek…

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Missing Man's Coat Found on Beach. Flood Tragedy Feared. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 13

Inspector Keith has received a report that a leather overcoat was found on the Scarborough Beach this afternoon. The coat has been identified as the one worn…

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Tragic Storm Filmed

The Sun · Sunday 29 January 1933 · page 2

When the recent heavy storm, which took toll of life and property, broke over Sydney and the South Ocast, Cinesound Newsreel cameramen…

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Monsoons Come Southwards Recent Storms Are the Result Improving Now

The Sun · Sunday 29 January 1933 · page 2

THE whole weather system usual to Australia at this time of the year has shifted south…

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Flood Fighting in Manchuria Comedy and Tragedy Side by Side

The Sun · Sunday 29 January 1933 · page 28

IT was a Sunday morning in August. Rain had been falling, with but few intervals of sunshine, for over…

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Traffic Hold-up Prince's Highway Delay After Storms

The Sun · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 8

Victorian traffic entering New South Wales along the Prince's Highway is still held up, awaiting the construction by. Main Roads Department…

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Motto Is 'Damn the Public!' Stevens' Indifference to Rail Fares and Storm Relief Bread Prices

The Labor Daily · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 5

HAVING succeeded to the domination of the Minister for Transport, Mr. Bruxner, with regard to his promise to reduce…

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Queensland Floods. Stockman Drowned. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 9

Paddy Noble, a coloured stockman, was drowned in the flood waters of the Laura River, near Cairns, while attempting to cross the stream…

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Floodlighting of Mountains. Katoomba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 10

Katoomba Council has decided, on the suggestion of Mr. R. N. Franki, consulting electrical engineer, to experiment with a longrange searchlight at Echo Point with the…

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Storms. Damage in North. Floods at Kyogle and Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 9

Some of the last lingering effects of the recent disturbance were felt on Sunday night in northern parts of New South Wales. Floods occurred at Kyogle, Casino, and Inverell…

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Two Storms Meet at Inverell Flood Streets and Cause Damage

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 January 1933 · page 11

INVERELL, Monday.--Two heavy storms travelling from the south and west broke over Inverell together with terrific intensity last night,…

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