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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 67

Flood Relief George Street West Shopping Area

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 7

Representatives of the City Council and the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board met at the Town Hall yesterday to discuss measures for the…

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Will Pay Cheerfully if He is Safe From Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 1

SYDNEY'S ideal taxpayer is probably Mr. O. College, manager of Hoskins, Ltd., of George Street West…

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Groote Eylandt. Floods, Cyclone—and Dangerous Natives

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 12

The Groote Eylandt Mission, which is to be protected from the Caledon Bay blacks by a police party that has set out from Darwin, is under the control of the Victorian branch of…

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Australian Rules. Newtown Won in Half Gale Record Crowd Saw Mediocre Game

Truth · Sunday 17 September 1933 · page 7

AS a result of their win over South Sydney at Erskineville yesterday, Newtown will meet Sydney next Saturday in a grand…

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Money Went Astray Silver Scorn Let Them Down Flood of Cash

The Sun · Sunday 17 September 1933 · page 19

A typical old-time plunge was made on the ex-New Zealander, Silver Scorn, in the Hill Stakes yesterday at…

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Gale Lashes U.S.A. Coast New York

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 1

A SAVAGE, storm is lashing the entire .Atlantic seaboard. An. A tropical sixty-miles-an-hour hurricane struck Norfolk. Virginia, and neighboring towns, demolishing small structures. A six-foot tidal wave swept through the village of New…

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Jazz Defies Gale Game Girl's Effort To Cheer New York

The Sun · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 1

WHILE the Ward liner Morro Castle (11,300 tons) was in danger of being pounded to pieces in the…

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"Teacup Storm" In Victorian U.C.P. MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 12

Threats made by a section of members of the United Country Party to have their three Ministers withdrawn from the Argyle Ministry are not…

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Huge Dam Smashed by Flood Hurricane's Heavy Toll Of Life In America Vessel Sunk New York

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 1

THE toll of the hurricane that swept the entire Atlantic seaboard is feared to be greater than at first imagined…

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Gulf Storm's Appalling Toll New York

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 5

FROM Mexico City it is reported that in Mexico the death toll from Friday night's tropical hurricane had mounted…

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Team Goes Hot Then Cold Cricketers at Holbrook Rain Storms

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 3

HOLBROOK, Tuesday.--At Mudgee we perspired freely in the heat of a humid day, but…

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K.C. to Appear Bankstown Council Storm Again

The Sun · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 18

MEETING for the fourth time in a fortnight, Bankstown Council again spent some hours in wordy warfare last night,…

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Racing Motorist, Dying, Remembered Brake Collapsed in Storm: Saved Wife Rushing to Bedside of Mother Holder of Records for Speed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 September 1933 · page 1

SPEEDING through a blinding rainstorm in a desperate effort to catch a steamer at Melbourne for Launceston, where his mother lies critically ill, Mr. Stephen…

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Floodlights on Hall

The Sun · Thursday 21 September 1933 · page 17

Tenders are to be called by Botany Council for the floodlighting of the local Town Hall…

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India Under Flood Intense Misery, Vast Damage Calcutta

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 September 1933 · page 9

The plains of India are virtually under water. Revival of the monsoon, with phenomenal rainfall and floods, is…

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Chapter Xiv. Storm-clouds Gather

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 5

Ellen declared she was a grown-up young lady. I was nearly of age. Father treated us both as youngsters, carelessly giving his orders, and expecting to be obeyed without…

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70 Injured by Storm Madrid

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 1

SEVENTY persons were injured by a hallstorm that caused extensive damage within a radius of 15…

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U.S.A. Plan to Flood Eastern Wheat Markets Our Trade Is Endangered Subsidised Dumping London Minister Takes Matter Up Assembly Questions

The Land · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 1

THE American threat to dump surplus wheat in China and other Eastern countries, to the detriment of…

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Hens Flood the Market Lower Prices Paid

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 16

Due to the drastic fall in egg prices, the market was inundated With hens, many poultry farmers being obliged to market their birds…

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Floods and Fever Ravage Delhi Calcutta

Truth · Sunday 24 September 1933 · page 14

MANY villages have been evacuated in the Delhi area, where unprecedented floods have occurred. Victims are taking refuge in the new…

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