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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 67

Radio for Continent Dodging Mountains and Storms Difficulties

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 8

Optimistic experts used to design a radio station, and draw a nice circle round it to show the area that it would…

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Juniors to Play in Noumea Cyclone's Havoc Causes Delay Tennis Visit

The Labor Daily · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 13

THE proposed trip to Noumea by two New South Wales tennis stars, who are to be selected, is still in the air…

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Cyclonic Storm Lashes N.S.W. Coast Wind Fury Rises Rough Seas Delay Shipping Rain Benefit

The Sun · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 9

THe whole of the New South Wales coast, south of the Manning Heads, is being lashed by…

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Flood Danger in North Warning by Weather Bureau

The Labor Daily · Friday 19 May 1933 · page 7

AS the result of heavy rains this week there is a like[?]hood of local floodings on the North Coast. Further heavier rains are forecast…

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More Rain & Gales To-day

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 10

WITH the cyclonic disturbance still over the New South Waien Coast further unsettled weather With heavy…

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Cyclone Is Moving Across Tasman Sea Conditions Abating Heavy Gale Damage; Shipping Delayed Fine Weather Predicted

The Sun · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 3

A GLEAM of sunshine, struggling through the clouds shortly before 10 o'clock this morning, may be a happy augury for the weekend, as the latest reports at the State Weather Bureau indicate that the cyclonic disturbance is moving out…

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Man Battered in Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 1

POLICE can find no motive for a murderous attack which occurred last night at Bellevue Hill, where George Dowlan (47),…

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Fierce Storm on Coast. with Torrential Rain. Floodings in City and Suburbs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 13

A fierce cyclonic storm swept Sydney and the central coast late yesterday afternoon. At Sydney three and a half inches of rain fell, more than two inches of which was registered between 5 and 6.30 o'clock…

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Struck by Motor Van in Storm

The Sun · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 3

During the height of last night's storm a heavy motor Van struck a post and brought down this aiming in front of Mr. Henry Woolfe's premises, George street…

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In the Wake of the Storm

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 1

A TRAIL of damage over the metropolis has been left by the cyclonic storm which passed over the New South Wales coast yesterday. A BULLETIN issued last night by…

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Storm Pranks Joke On Wireless Patrol

The Sun · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 3

Storm sprites played a joke on the Western Suburbs wireless patrol early this morning, when they raced to a shop in Oxford-street, Paddington,…

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Big Storm Damage Cyclone Lashes City and Suburbs Man Killed on Bridge; Many Others Hurt Shipping Delayed Fireball Affects Three Homes at Bondi

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 1

Rain, driven by a 57 miles an hour gale, swept city, harbor, and suburbs yesterday evening, and flooded shops, homes, and streets. The weather was cyclonic all day, but the severest burst of the…

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Tossed by Gale Aorangi Cruised Off Heads Hours Late

The Sun · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 3

Having weathered a fierce gale in the early hours of the morning, the Royal Mail liner Aorangi met further…

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All Coast Lashed City Rainfall of 340 Points Gale Force

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 7

Yesterday's cyclone lashed almost the full length of the New South Wales coast, but failed to penetrate west of the…

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Greasy Roadways Take Toll Numerous Casualties As Result of the Storm Skidding Cars

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 6

NUMEROUS road accidents occurred as a result of the storm yesterday. Cars skidding on the greasy roads were…

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"C.P. Poison Cart" Reference Widens the Federal Breach Storm Raised in the House at Canberra Do Taxpayers Pay for Propaganda? Asks Member 'Argus' Leader Paper's Attempt to Avoid Yawning Chasm Canberra

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 May 1933 · page 5

FOLLOWING several, previous indications of the imminence of a complete split between the U.A.P and U.C.P. a leader in the…

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Why Yugoslavia Is Storm-centre

The Sun · Sunday 21 May 1933 · page 7

YUGOSLAVIA is a Great Power in embryo, and an experiment. Whether the experiment will succeed or not rests mainly with the Serbs…

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Storm Moving South Brighter Sunday Is Promise Yesterday Spoilt

The Sun · Sunday 21 May 1933 · page 1

WEATHER. -- Adverse, unpleasant, hurtful or destructive condition of the atmosphere; rain, frost,…

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A Calm After Storm They Didn't Mind a Rest in Golf Though Playing Still Women's Games

The Sun · Sunday 21 May 1933 · page 47

WE are told, by those who are supposed to know, that a calm always follows a storm, and this last week…

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Cyclone Passes; Fine Again

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 May 1933 · page 8

WITH the passing of the cyclone, weather conditions in the city to-day should be considerably improved…

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