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Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 67

Cycling. in Storm Pedaliers Threaten to Use Axe MISGUIDED!

Truth · Sunday 16 April 1933 · page 7

IT would appear that, sooner or later, every successful athletic organisation suffers a split in the ranks…

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Mildura in a Gale Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 April 1933 · page 6

The steamer Mildura arrived 40 hours late after battling against a 60 mile an-hour gale. The vessel, however was not damaged…

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Storm Fury Vessel's Four-day Battle ADELAIDE

The Sun · Monday 17 April 1933 · page 8

More than 40 hours late, this interstate freighter Mildura arrived at Port Adelaide on Saturday from Melbourne, after a four-day battle with…

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Ship in Storm. More Than 40 Hours Late. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 April 1933 · page 8

More than 40 hours late, the interstate freighter Mildura arrived at Port Adelaide yesterday from Melbourne after four days' battle with the worst storms officers have…

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Lively Night Session Under the Blaze of Flood Lights Best-yet Trots

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 April 1933 · page 5

The arena, brilliantly illumined from the tower flood lights, turned night into day, for the evening session, and "the best attendance yet"…

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Heavy Rain In North Queensland. TOWNSVILLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1933 · page 12

Reports from Tully indicate that heavy rains have been experienced during the week-end in the far north, and there is every indication of disorganisation of the train services north of…

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Sudden Gale Unsettled Weather Expected on Coast

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 April 1933 · page 8

The southerly gale, which suddenly whipped up last night about 9 o'clock, will probably be the forerunner of an unsettled period in…

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Snow Storm At Kiandra-- Floral Carriage For Gala

The Sun · Wednesday 19 April 1933 · page 20

HAVING a full day at the Show.--A child who thought it was a wonderful event. BRITISH film actress, Miss Bebe Brune, displaying her shapely limbs, said to be…

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Cyclone Damage In New Caledonia. Small Ships Carried High and Dry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 April 1933 · page 13

A terrific cyclone, which passed over New Caledonia recently, wrought extensive damage according to a radio message received by the Orient line from the R.M.S. Oronsay, which…

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Heavy Toll of N.Z. Gale Wellington(n.z)

The Labor Daily · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 1

CONSIDERABLE damage was done at Christchurch this morning when a strong north-west gale struck the city. Shipping was disorganised vessels being blown away from their…

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Drought and Flood Obtaining Relief Under the Crown Lands Act

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 9

SETTLERS who desire to apply for relief under the provisions of Sections 4 of the Crown Lands (Amendment) Act, 1932, have only a limited time in which…

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Loosed Flood Armed Men Blow Up Levee Sumner (Miss.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 1

Three hundred armed men overpowered the levee guards at Chute Bridge last night and blew out the levee, in order to relieve the pressure…

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One Train Floods Still Severe in N. Queensland

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 7

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--Railway services in North Queensland are still held up by flooded rivers. Innisfail to-day was isolated, all…

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Gas Main Ablaze Flame and Explosions Flooded After Two- Hour Fight Drill Spark

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1933 · page 7

Flames leapt 10 feet when a broken gas main caught fire last night close to the Lavender Bay wharf, Circular Quay…

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Flooding by Storm Waters

The Propeller · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 6

Although the expenditure by the Government of £24,000 in improving the drainage of the Sydenham area of Marrickville Municipality is only the…

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Floodwaters Recede

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 7

CAIRNS, Thursday.--The Mulgrave and Russell Rivers and Behana and Babinda Creeks, on the Cairns-Innis-fail section of the North Coast line,…

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Gale in New Zealand. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 April 1933 · page 17

The heaviest north-west gale for many years swept Canterbury from 2 o'clock yesterday morning until 9[?] It was especially severe in Christchurch and suburbs,. where a good deal…

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Floods Hold Up Trains Tully River in Q'land Is Still Rising

The Sun · Sunday 23 April 1933 · page 2

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- Railway services between Ingham and Cairns, North Queensland, are again disorganised as a result of heavy rain on…

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Wintry Gale Lashes Coast

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 April 1933 · page 1

A FIFTY-MILE-AN-HOUR gale whistling round the house tops yesterday afternoon brought radiators and fires into commission in many homes for the first time since last winter. The cold change was a contrast to…

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Rough Weather. Gales Predicted. Launch's Perilous Experience

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 April 1933 · page 9

A southerly gale caused heavy seas yesterday off the New South Wales coast and in the Tasman Sea Rough seas and gales are again expected to-day…

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