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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1933

1,330 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 67

Her Love Mongrel Heroine Of Storm Died for Pups

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 11

A HOMELESS mongrel dog, she was a heroine of the storm, dying that her pups might live…

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Schooner Is M I S S I N G in Blinding Gale the Huia Four Days Overdue From Melb. Fears Felt Many Vessels Held Up Along Storm-lashed Coast

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 1

HUIA, the little topsail schooner which ran from Sydney to Kaipara Heads (N.Z.) in the astonishing. time of four days and six…

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Govt. Must Repair Storm Damage ! Clear Duty of Stevens is to Provide For Fullest Amount of work from Public Funds Gale Takes Heavy Toll Of Life And Property In State £300 000 Available For Relief Easy-Term Loans Are Imperative Further Havoc Is Predicted

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 1

TEN lives were lost, many people were injured or suffered from exposure, A. and damage on an enormous scale was done by the storm which swept the State at an early hour yesterday. Unfortunately, according to the latest advices from the State Meteorologist, Mr…

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Nine Die in Fury of the South Coast Storm Fear of Further Fatalfties Family Overwhelmed by Midnight Torrent Landslide Kills Boy Car Swept From Road: Driver Missing

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 1

The storm that brought death to nine on the South Coast may have claimed other victims. Holiday and unemployment camps were dotted about beaches and gullies, where huge landslides…

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Storm Disasters. Camping Family Overwhelmed Eight Persons Perish on South Coast. Six of the Bodies Swept Out to Sea. Parents' Heroic Efforts End in Tragedy. Family Buried by Landslide; One Boy Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 11

One of the worst flood disasters in the history of Illawarra occurred early yesterday morning, when a man, his wife, and children, and two young visitors to their camp were swept to death. One daughter, a girl of 16, was saved by the heroic efforts of three…

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Extensive Flooding and Severe Damage in Suburbs and Countryside Following Torrential Rainstorm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 14

ACRES UNDER WATER AT COOGEE OVAL, THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS OBTAINED FROM THE OCEAN SIDE OF THE OVAL, ALFREDA-STREET IS IN THE BACKGROUND. WATER UNDERMINED THE FOUNDATIONS OF THIS HOUSE IN PROSPECT-STREET, WEST KOGARAH. PORTION OF THE DAMAGED SEA WALL ON COOGEE ESPLANADE…

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Queensland Floods. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 12

The Condamine River is five feet over the railway bridge at Yandilla, is about a mile wide, and is still rising. Yandilla station is surrounded by flood waters, and all…

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Flood Warning Issued

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 11

Last night the Sydney Weather Bureau issued a warning that floods were likely in all coastal rivers. It was also indicated that local floodings could be expected inland…

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Rain-drenched State. Some Torrential Falls. Damage in City and Country. Flood Scenes in the Suburbs. Twenty-four Inches on Coast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 11

Damage estimated at hundreds of thousands of pounds was done in New South Wales, and particularly in the metropolitan area, by cyclonic storms early yesterday morning. Reports from many parts of the State indicate damake to buildings, crops, roads, railways, and fences…

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Nepean River. Flooding Threatened

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 12

The Nepean River at Camden late last night was level with the railway bridge, and it was feared in the township that it would burst its banks. Warnings have been issued, and no…

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George's River in Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 12

George's River rose to heights passing all previous records. In places it was more than a mile wide. Unemployed men with their families who had been camped on the banks…

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'Plane Crash in Flood Water -- --Craig for Trial for Murder

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 18

Above: THE pilo[?] escaped serious injury when an Aero Club Moth crashed…

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Floods Still Menace S. Coast Trail of Damage Exodus Of Campers From Stanwell Park

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 13

WHILE the floods are receding in some parts, leaving a trail of damage, the danger of flooding continues in all South Coastal rivers, as the result of further heavy rain…

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Country News Flood Damage Bathurst

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 4

The Heaviest rain since 1916 fell in the Bathurst district last night and caused hundreds of pounds' worth of damage. At the foot of Rockley…

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Flooded Out

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 11

Settlers on the George's River since the floods don bathing dress and go by canoe to meet the baker for their daily bread…

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Flood Victims Funeral By Road To-morrow (Continued from Page 13)

The Sun · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 12

The funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Davis, and Clifford Davis, three of the victims of the Stanwell Park disaster, will leave the Illawarra Cottage…

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Wife and Baby Trapped by Flood

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 5

AT 3 a.m. yesterday, during the height of the storm Mr. and Mrs. Selwyn Rivett, of Carrington Road,…

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Flood Waters

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 5

This is not a river in flood, but portion of the Coogee Oval and Afreda Street, taken yesterday afternoon…

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Roads Blocked by Flood Waters "Marooned" Street in Coogee

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 10

Much of Alfreda Street, Coogee, was altogether cut off by road from the rest of the world all day yesterday, being feet deep in water in…

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Flood Falls in O'land

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 January 1933 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday.--Good rains over wide areas of Queensland have relieved what were almost drought conditions…

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