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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 67

Gales at Norfolk Island. Norfolk Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 14

Shipping activities are being delayed by the heavy storm at present raging over the island…

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Terrific Gale in Gippsland Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 1

THE small dairying town of Boolarra, Gippsland, was extensively damaged by a 70miles-an-hour cyclone which…

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Tree on Tent Man Killed In Gale CASINO

The Sun · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 14

Mervyn Skelton, 47, died as a result of the shocking injuries he received when a dead tree crashed on his tent at Sandy Creek, seven miles…

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Cyclone Hits Young Half, Town Plunged Into Darkness Young

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 1

HERALDED by a roar like an express train, a cyclone struck Young last night. with it came a dust storm and yield lightning…

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Fireball Fear Girl Terror-Stricken In Storm BRISBANE

The Sun · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 20

At the height of a severe electrical storm last night, a fireball exploded in a paddock near the sewerage station at Pinkenba, but no damage was…

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Storm Fury U.S.A. Squadron's Dead Sand-laden City Los Angeles

The Sun · Thursday 12 January 1933 · page 14

A trail of devastation followed a tornado in Southern California today, leaving two dead and eleven American sailors…

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Cathode Ray's Limits Storm Detection Main Use

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Cathode Ray direction finder, which told a storm 100 miles south of the Southern Cross during its flight to…

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Fatal Storm on N.c. Tree Falls on Tent

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 5

THE tornado which struck the North Coast on Wednesday night proved fatal at Casino, when a tree crashed down on a tent…

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Storm Brings Tragedy Tornado Kills 12 at San Pedro Los Angeles

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 1

SWEEPING Southern California to-day a tornado did damage estimated at £250,000, and claimed 12 victims from the…

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Killed When Tree Falls Man Sheltering in Tent From Storm One Badly Hurt

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1933 · page 1

CASINO, Thursday.--During a severe thunderstorm last night a dead tree crashed on a tent in which five men were sheltering…

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In Storm-time. The Downs Farmer's Foe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 January 1933 · page 9

The man who has farmed on the Downs and left it might in a year or so forget its late frosts, its plagues of mice and grasshoppers, its westerly winds, and icy mornings, its…

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Storm Faces Govt.? New Minister Is Raw, But Victorian Francis Is Restive; State Balance Fetish

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 January 1933 · page 5

CANBERRA, Friday. -- Storm clouds on the Federal horizon have grown bigger as a result of the choice of…

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'Plane's Dash To Bring Test Pictures Had to Fight Way Through Storm

The Sun · Sunday 15 January 1933 · page 1

After encountering a rainstorm that blanketed the mountains and threatened to force a landing at Mittagong, the…

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Storms. Railway Sheds Wrecked. Damage by Wind and Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 9

Isolated tornadic windstorms caused considerable damage in several country towns in the north of the State during the week-end…

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Storm Does Damage in Queensland Cow Is Killed by Lightning

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Storms during the week-end caused serious damage to property in the Highfields district, near Toowoomba. The wind…

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Dr. Page's Son Killed by Lightning Instant Death in Terrific Storm at Grafton

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 1

Earle Charles Page, 22, son of Dr. Earle Page, Federal Country Party leader, was killed instantly by lightning on…

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Dr. Page's Son Struck Dead by Lightning While Driving Cattle During Heavy Storm Brother's Horror

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 1

EARLE CHARLES PAGE, 22, elder son of Dr. Earle Page, was struck dead by lightning during a thunderstorm at…

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Molten Glass Flood Brigade's Ingenuity

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 16 January 1933 · page 6

The ingenuity of the Milan (Italy) Fire Brigade was pat to a severe test when firemen were called out to stop a flood of molten glass. One of the sides of a huge…

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London Echoes Of The Storm At Adelaide Vehement Leg-Theory Discussion No Intent to Injure M.C.C. Perturbed at Protest London

The Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1933 · page 1

WHILE the M.C.C. is described as perturbed over the Woodfull-Warner incident, and ready to discuss any protest received from Australia against the practice of leg-theory tactics, individual opinions about the…

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Crash! Will Go Our Crumbling Tariff Walls Flood Gates Open Soon for Big Importers Reconstruction of the Board Planned by Fed. Govt. Serious Blow Part of Bruce Policy to Cripple Aust. Industry Canberra

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 January 1933 · page 5

TO ensure the more rapid working of the Government's scheme to smash the tariff barriers and admit a flood of imports into the…

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