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Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 67

The Tennis Storm (To the Editor)

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 June 1933 · page 2

Sir,—I beg leave to make reference through the columns of your paper to a topic which has recently excited our small tennis world. I refer to the…

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Southern Cross In Flood

The Sun · Saturday 10 June 1933 · page 1

Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's 'plane. Southern Cross, caught in flood waters at Frogmore Flats, five miles outside Kempsey. The the plane landed the ground was dry. The flood rose overnight when the Macleay River overflowed. -- The top picture shows the 'plane wrapped in a tarpaulin, after it had been taxied…

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Floods Still Delay N.T. Mails DARWIN

The Sun · Saturday 10 June 1933 · page 3

The overland mail is still hung up by flood waters at Newcastle Waters. It was due at Darwin on June 3, and, with luck, may arrive by June 17…

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Champ. Of Champions Casino Man Wins on Heavy Green Rain Has Victory Over Players In Most Suburbs

Truth · Sunday 11 June 1933 · page 8

THE bowls title—Champion of Champions—went to a country player yesterday, when T. Halpin, of Casino, defeated R. Craig (M'ville), the metropolitan champion, at City Green, by 32 to 14…

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Yangtse Rises High Flood Feared Shanghai

The Sun · Monday 12 June 1933 · page 4

Fear is freely expressed at Hankow of the possibility of a repetition of the Yangtse Kiang floods of 1931. The river has reached to 39ft. above…

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Maher Cup Again a Storm Centre N.S.W. Rugby League Upholds Temora Kangaroos Are Challenged

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 June 1933 · page 3

The Maher Cup, the centre of more disuptes than, perhaps, any other football trophy in New South Wales, is again without an owner. By a heavy vote last night, the New South Wales Rugby League decided to uphold Temora's protest, and ordered that…

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Floods Of Nazi Propaganda In Europe LONDON, May 11

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 June 1933 · page 6

When Adam delved, and Eve span Publicity had its birth. Their psychological invention…

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Heavy Rain in W.A. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 June 1933 · page 17

Heavy rains fell in tne Midlands last night and the town of Three Springs, 190 miles north of Perth was inundated for the second time this winter. At 4.30 this morning the streets…

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Storm Floodings Council to Confer with Water Board

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 June 1933 · page 8

"The next time an engineer comes round I'll duck him," declared Aid. Shannon at yesterday's City Council meeting, when he urged that…

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Floods in City No Remedial Measures

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 14 June 1933 · page 4

Complaint was again made at the meeting of the city Council yesterday about, the failure of the council's stuff to do anything to remedy the…

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A Severe Storm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 15 June 1933 · page 18

ANNIE PERGU[?]ON (Wandella).— A storm came up about dusk. We could sea it some time before it reached here. The sky towards the south-west was very dark. Large…

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Properties Flooded Want Drain Extended

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1933 · page 15

A. E. Aspinall, L. C. Vidler, and other property owners and tenants in Church-street, Early-street, and Lansdowne-street, wrote to Parramatta Council,…

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Flooding of Shops Conference to be Held

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 June 1933 · page 13

A conference between representatives ot the [?] and Swerage Board and the City Coun[?] determine the responsibility for recent [?] in parts of Surry Hills and…

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Soccer Under Floodlight

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 June 1933 · page 3

Sydney will be treated to the novelty of night Soccer next Wednesday. Yesterday…

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Floods Move Wreck. Urunga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 10

The recent flood waters shifted the portion of the wrecked tug Repton, which has prevented steamers from entering the Bellinger River for some months. This will enable…

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The Tennis Storm (To the Editor)

Nepean Times · Saturday 17 June 1933 · page 8

Sir,—With your permission I would be grateful if you would grant me space to ask if the statements made and signed by "Ex-Committeeman"…

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"Any Port in a Storm"

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 49

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Severe Damage Cyclone in New Hebrides Lasts a Week

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 6

Life in the New Hebrides has its lively moments, said Rev. A. A. Butchart, a missionary of the Australian Board of Missions, who arrived on…

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Cricket in England. Thunderstorms Interrupt Play. London, June 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 18

Playing against the minor counties at Lord's, the West Indies team lost five wickets for 102 runs. Intermittent thunderstorms throughout the country interfered with play…

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Flooding of Shops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 10

The Town Clerk (Mr. Hendy) yesterday presided at a conference of technical officers of the Water and Sewerage Board and the City Council to deal with the flooding of certain…

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