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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →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,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →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,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →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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