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Floods & storms, 1934

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Fierce Gale Lashes State Flood Peril on Central Coast Mail Train Delayed, Ship Hove to

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 10

COVERING almost the whole of the eastern section of New South Wales, a tropical cyclone, with its centre between Port Macquarie and Newcastle, is whipping up the seas along the coast and causing torrential…

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Savagery of Kalgoorlie Riots... Pictures Flown Through Storm

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 14

THE BLIND FURY OF THE MOB'S ATTACK is in evidence in this pile of twisted wreckage at Kalaf's Majestic Cafe, Kalgoorlie. The wrath of the attackers spent itself in the ruthless demolition of everything breakable in the premises through which they swept. RUINED EXTERIOR of the Cornwall Hotel, Boulder City.--The interior was gutted by fires started by the…

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Fisherman Lost In Gale Off Cronulla Mate Rescued by Lifesavers Dramatic Battle With Huge Seas After Leap From Boat

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 9

AT the mercy of a gale which made it almost impossible to cling to the side of their 25-foot fishing boat, two men jumped into a raging sea when it seemed that the vessel would be blown on to the rocks at Cronulla…

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Extension of Flood Lighting. Katoomba, Thursday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 12

The Katoomba Council is to consider at its next meeting the advisability of extending floodlighting of beauty spots. Two schemes are likely to be discussed-the…

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Flood Warning. North Coast Rivers. Monsoonal Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 11

Heavy rain continued yesterday in the north-eastern part of the State, and serious floodings of rivers is feared. In Sydney rain fell almost incessantly from early last…

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Pureau Warns Of Floods On Coast

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 10

The Weather Bureau to-day issued the following flood warning:-- A severe cyclone is located over north-eastern N.S.W. with its centre,…

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Breadalbane Floods Breadalbane

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 8

During a heavy storm at Breadalbane, portions of the town were flooded to a depth of six feet. Mo[?]donned swimming costumes to rescue…

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Monsoonal Rains Drench The State Flood and Ship Warnings

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 7

MONSOONAL rains yesterday drenched the State, and flood and shipping warnings have been issued by the Weather…

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Flood Water Complaint

The Biz · Friday 2 February 1934 · page 7

In a letter to Holroyd Council. Mr. E. Britten complained of flood waters from Percival-road and adjacent properties flouring along Kenyon's-road, and through…

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Further Heavy Rain

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 10

THE weather continues unsettled over the eastern half of the State, further heavy rain being forecast…

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Storm Damage

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 1

Shortly ofter noon yesterday a retaining wall to a newly-constructed road oft the Suspension Bridge, Northbridge, collapsed The photo shows portion of the wall in the gro unds of the residence of Mr. J. Mullins. Heavy damage resulted…

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Cyclone Damage at Randwick

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 7

BLOWN DOWN in yesterday's cyclone, hoardings strewn near the Randwick Tramway Workshops…

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Life Lost in Cyclone

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 1

MANY WILLING HANDS hauled the auxiliary sailing boat Ripple on to Cronulla beach yesterday after it had overturned in the cyclone, throwing two men and a dog into huge seas. John R. Nobbs, 35, of Shellharbor, was drowned, and Andrew Bernard Bourke, 29, rescued by life-savers. The…

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The Day After The Cyclone

The Sun · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 1

Thunderous billows pounded the coast to-day, though the fur y of the gate had passed.--A big sea lashing the point of the breakwater at Clovelly…

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GALE-TOSSED Mundalla Crew's Misery

The Sun · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 3

After pitching and tossing for 12 hours in yesterday's gale, the motor ship Mundalla, from Adelaide, crept into port at 3.2 a.m. to-day…

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Crossing to Manly in Yesterday's Fierce Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 16

For the "good sailors" the trip to Manly by ferry was but a mild thrill, but others found it sufficiently boisterous…

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Leaps To Safety As Wall Crashes In Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 7

STRUCK by a violent gust of wind during yesterday afternoon's gale, the steel framework of a building under…

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From Page One Cyclone Moving Southward Torrential Rainfall at Maitland

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 7

It is particularly in the river systems of the Hawkesbury and south that flooding is expected by Mr. Mares…

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Crew Rescued In Fierce Gale Off Brit. Coast LONDON

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 1

A FIERCE northerly gale swept Britain, and was especially violent in the Channel and the North Sea. Two of the cross-Channel sailings between Dover and Ostend were cancelled, and a lifeboat at Filey, Yorkshire,…

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One Dead, Many Hurt in Storm Three Smashes When Vehicles Skid Drowning in Capsize Flooding Fears in South

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1934 · page 1

SKIDDING vehicles on Sydney's storm-swept roads yesterday injured nine people. When a fishing launch capsized off Cronulla, John R. Nobbs, of Shellharbor, was…

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