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Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 67

Heavy Rain Sweeps Northern Areas Warnings Of Floods Central West Downpour

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 November 1933 · page 11

SWEEPING rapidly southwards from Queensland, and extending across the north of N.S.W., steady rain has caused…

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Miss Doreen Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 November 1933 · page 4

Great interest attaches to the announcement, on Derby Day in Melbourne, of the engagement of Miss Doreen Gale, of South Yarra, to Mr. Neville Rupert…

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Old Wheat Is Keenly Sought Harvest Delayed By Heavy Rain Price Firms

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 November 1933 · page 10

The activity of millers in seeking to obtain wheat for flour in order to beat the proposed tax caused the market for the grain…

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Street Meetings Storm At Parramatta Council

The Sun · Tuesday 7 November 1933 · page 15

There was a stormy scene in Parramatta Council last night, when Alderman W. R. Musto accused the Mayor (Alderman Ohlsen). of being…

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'Wet' Dawn Floods of Whisky Ready Final Votes New York

The Sun · Tuesday 7 November 1933 · page 1

IN anticipation of the repeal of prohibition in the United Stales, Canadian distillers have built uts their stocks of matured…

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Danger of Floods in Thenorth Warning Issued By The Weather Bureau Delete zone Heavy Rains

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 November 1933 · page 6

WITH every probability of further heavy rainfalls on the northern tablelands and North Coast during the next 24 hours,…

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Flood Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 November 1933 · page 17

Mr. Mares last night issued the following flood warning: -- "Heavy rain has fallen over northern New South Wales and in…

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Heavy Rain. Floods Unlikely in North

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 November 1933 · page 20

Heavy rain which fell over the north coast during Monday night heightened the danger of flood in coastal rivers, but conditions improved so substantially during the day that…

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Storm Damage in the Northern Wheat Area

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 November 1933 · page 36

The picture on the left shows a flattened wheat crop at Goonoo Goonoo-road, Tamworth district, and gives some idea how thousands of acres of wheat throughout the north and north-western belt have been severely damaged as a result of the soaking rains accompanied by heavy winds experienced recently. Though some of the flattened wheat may pick up with…

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Rivers Rise Flood Danger In North -West

The Sun · Wednesday 8 November 1933 · page 13

A warning of floods in the Northwest was issued to -day by the Weather Bureau The MacIntyre River is rising…

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Floods in Queensland Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 November 1933 · page 1

Heavy thunderstorms have caused flooding on parts of the Darling Downs. Toowoomba, Mitchell, and Chariecville have received a great…

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Floodings Occur on Nth. Coast Substantial Rises In The Rivers Expected Riverina Dry

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 November 1933 · page 8

FOLLOWING, continuous, heavy rainstorms along the entire North Coast yesterday, local floodings occurred last night in…

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Flood Danger Abates, But More Rain Due Why Spring Is So Variable

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 November 1933 · page 11

THE heavy rain throughout the State eased off considerably yesterday, and although a renewal of unsettled conditions is…

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Further Heavy Storms Predicted

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 November 1933 · page 11

AFTER a temporary casing of rainstorms over the northern areas of the State yesterday, renewed unsettled…

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Dust-storm at Wagga

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 November 1933 · page 10

WAGGA, Wednesday.--Just after six to-night one of the worst dust-storms ever experienced in Wagga enveloped the town…

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Storm Damage Crops Ruined in the Tamworth Area and Queensland

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 9 November 1933 · page 12

THUNDER and hall storms and fire caused severe losses in the Tamworth district and parts of Queensland at the week-end, wheat, barley, and canary seed…

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Flood Danger. Rapid Rise in Macintyre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 November 1933 · page 11

Continuous heavy rains in southern Queensland have caused such a rapid rise in the Macintyre River that a flood is likely. At Yetman the river rose 8 feet 6 inches…

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Ominous Rises in Rivers Flood Level Near On The Swollen Macintyre Foot an Hour

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 November 1933 · page 6

WHILE the Maclntyre River height late last night was below flood level, a great volume of water was coming down from the upper reaches…

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Rainfall in Three States Danger of Floods From High Rivers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 November 1933 · page 10

TORRENTIAL rain fell on the Queensland tropical coast, and there was further rain inland and in many parts of…

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Storm-Centre Statuary

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 November 1933 · page 8

The Samuel: Gompers Memorial at Washington, which was unveiled last month has been, the centre of a widespread controversy in the American working-class movement between the more advanced elements, and the Federation erected the statuary to…

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