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Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 67

A Record Fall Heavy Rain In Far West Flood Fear

The Sun · Wednesday 29 November 1933 · page 11

HUNDREDS of miles of parched grazing country in the far west are being soaked by torrential rain, which…

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Readers to Win £300: "Give It a Name" Extra Staff Copes With Flood Of Entries

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 November 1933 · page 4

AN unprecedented deluge of entries for "Give It A Name" No. 4 Contest has made it necessary to employ extra…

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Talk To Storm Troops

The Sun · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 15

Hitler addressing thousands of East Bavarian storm troopers on his foreign policy in the shadow of the monument erected near Ketheim to commemorate…

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Heavy Vic. Rain Hampers Transport MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 8

Heavy rainfall last night--one of the heaviest general rains ever recorded in Victoria--caused minor floods in several districts, delayed the…

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Many Bitter Scenes Storms in Parlt. Obstruction By Lang Group Long Sitting Canberra

The Sun · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 8

NOTHING is more destructive of Parliamentary manners than the application of the guillotine at the end of…

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Flour Tax Storm Brews Fears of Big Jump in Bread "Inequitable," Says Member Of The Party Early Buying Canberra, Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 4

AT long last legislation to provide assistance to wheat growers will be definitely introduced on Friday. Notice of the…

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The World's Catholic News From Rome to our Copy Desk. the "Fides" Service The China Floods. Huge Mission Losses

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 8

Peiping.—The Yellow River floods, the worst in 50 years, have wrought enormous damage to all Catholic missions lying near the river in Honan, Shensi,…

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Flooded Country

The Sun · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 25

Flood warnings for southern and central areas, with washawa[?]s and express and mail delays in the far west followed heavy rains in the country. This flooded wheat crop on the road between Temora and Leeton was taken by a "Sun" photographer a few days ago…

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For Coogee Beach Flood Lighting in Color

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 9

Coogee is going to boost itself in earnest this summer. A striking proposal in this connection is the flood-lighting of the beach in…

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Washaways And Warning Of Floods Follow Rain

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 9

FLOOD warnings for the Southern and Central areas, with washaways and express and mail delays in the Far West…

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Trade Ship Started A Flood Of Inquiries Eager for Facts on Indies Batavia, October 21

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 November 1933 · page 6

WHAT are the vital statistics, the imports and exports, the area, the culture, and the habits of the 65,000,000 peoples of…

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Freighter in Gale. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 15

When the motor ship Anglo-Canadian was steaming across the Great Australian Bight last mouth, loaded with 10,200 tons of bulk wheat for Liverpool, a terrific storm was…

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Fatal Storm and Floods in Victoria: N.s.w. Warned

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 11

GEORGE ABBOTT, aged 19, was killed by lightning near Stawell (Vic.) yesterday during a storm which swept most of the…

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Bankers' Storm Troops Fall In

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 6

IF there are any inside the Labor Movement or out of it who, believing in the necessity for reform of the banking and credit, machinery of the Commonwealth, imagine that the banks are taking cheaply the challenge launched against their privileged facilities for…

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Storm Sweeps Victoria Many Washaways Reported MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 9

Following the rainstorm which burst over the north-western area of Victoria yesterday, when a youth, George Abbott, was killed and four…

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Flood Warning

The Sun · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 9

The Weather Bureau today Issued the following flood warning:--The Upper Darling River and its northern tributaries continue to rise…

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Menindie Has No Fear of Flood Now Exceptional Rainfall Tore Up Roads Vic. Washaways

The Sun · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 9

PRACTICALLY isolated by road and telephone since Wednesday, when almost six of rain fell in 24 hours,…

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Flooded Rivers Subside Rainstorms Extend Southward Heavy Falls

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 7

AS a result of rainstorms abating in the far-west and central districts yesterday, floodings of the Upper Darling…

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Wall of Water in Bendigo Nearly 100 Houses Flooded Much Damage Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 8

A GREAT wall of water suddenly swept down the Bendigo Ore Creek at that town this afternoon, inundating nearly 100 houses in the…

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Flood Advice

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 December 1933 · page 19

The following flood advice was issued last night: -- The rain during the past 24 hours has bean mostly light to moderate, and not…

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