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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 67

Survived Floods Tamworth

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 October 1933 · page 10

ALTHOUGH the recent rains flooded the Peel River at Tamworth to height of 15 feet eigth inches, the river…

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Shows Sydney Is Seeing! Americans in Hungary 'Storm at Daybreak'

The Sun · Sunday 8 October 1933 · page 46

"STORM AT DAYBREAK," screened yesterday at the Regent Theatre, is marked by the sincere work of Walter Huston and Kay…

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Ceramic in Gales. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 13

Severe gales, one of which was said to have attained a velocity of 60 miles an hour, the night before Fremantle was reached, were encountered by the White Star liner Ceramic on the voyage from…

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Stage and Screen 'Storm at Daybreak' a Talkie With Talent At Regent

The Sun · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 10

Just a little more attention to the dialogue, and "Storm at Daybreak," which is at the Regent Theatre this week, would have been a first-class…

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Saturday's First Nights "Storm at Daybreak" Fresh Aspect of The .Eternal Triangle Kay Francis

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 7

THE old, old "infernal" triangle movie theme is dying a hard death, and while ever it has a kick left in it Hollywood producers will…

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Drowned in Flooded River

The Sun · Monday 9 October 1933 · page 10

WEE WAA, Monday. -- Mr. John J. Knight, 74, a well-known grazier and butcher, was drowned while bathing in the Namol River yesterday. His…

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Heavy Rain in Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 9

Thunderstorms, accompanied by vivid lightning, loud peals of thunder, and heavy rain, occurred at many places in New South Wales yesterday…

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Sydney Taken by Storm!

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 1

THERE was a typical war-time "run for cover" yesterday afternoon by business-folk homeward bound, when a thudnrstorm…

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Ten-Minute Storm Sweeps City Lightning Puts Radio Off Air

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 9

ACCOMPANIED by vivid A lightning and loud thunderclaps, a 10-minute rainstorm swept home-going city…

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Morgan Nearly Snatches Victory in Last Minutes Spirited Attack Had Carroll Groggy Australian Weathered Storm Won on Points

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 3

IN an atmosphere that seemed charged with electricity, Jack Carroll, welterweight champion of Australia, defeated on points Tod Morgan, former junior lightweight champion of the world, at the Sydney Stadium last night before a crowd of…

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Aged Grazier. Drowned in Flooded River. Wee Waa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 10

Mr. John Joseph Knight, aged 74, a prominent grazier and butcher, and one of the oldest residents of the district, was drowned in the Namoi River late yesterday afternoon…

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Cruiser Shortage Naval Exercises Stopped By Gale LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 10

The naval exercises, in which the convoying of merchantmen was to be tested, were cancelled because a gale was blowing…

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Fierce Storm. Damage in Queensland Town. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 15

Crops were beaten to the ground, cattle injured, and business premises damaged when a heavy hailstorm occurred at Kin Kin this afternoon. Between five and six inches of…

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Hundred Acres Under Ice Queensland Town Is Flayed by Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 8

KIN KIN, Tuesday. -- Crops were beaten to the ground, cattle were injured, and business premises damaged when a heavy hailstorm broke over…

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At the Pictures : Latest Talkies Reviewed "Kiss Me Again," a new coloured picture. . . . "Storm at Daybreak," war in Eastern Europe. . . . "The Stranger's Return," a tale of American country life

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 11

IN the first year or so of the talking film period coloured pictures were brought forward at fairly frequent intervals. The development of reasonably efficient methods of colour photography…

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Success of Musical Films. Amateur Song Writers Flood Studios

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 7

The revival of musical interest in motion pictures is unleashing a new epidemic which threatens to be even more overwhelming than the writing of scenarios…

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Flood Damage. Bowraville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 16

At the monthly meeting of the Nambucca Shire Council, held at Bowraville yesterday, disappointment was expressed at the refusal of the Government to make a grant for the…

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Before The Storm

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 4

THE trade figures released yesterday by the Commonwealth Statistician, covering Australian imports and exports for the month of August, should sound a note of warning to tile Australian people of the desperate position that is likely to develop when the new tariff…

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May Be Thunder Storm This Evening

The Sun · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 4

BAROMETER[?] 80.10 INDICATOR [?] Unsettled City Forecast.--Cloudy and mild during day, with a tendency to a…

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Body-line Clouds Is New Storm Brewing? Clash of Opinion on Cables Ultimatum Issued By Larwood

The Sun · Thursday 12 October 1933 · page 19

WHILE the weight of representative cricket opinion acclaims the friendly interchange of cables between the M.C.C. and the Board of Control as providing a happy settlement of the "bodyline"…

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