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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1934

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Train Marooned Flood Waters Cut Railway Line DUBBO

The Sun · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 3

The Coonamble mail train, due here, at 4.50 yesterday afternoon, was marooned by flood waters causing a washaway of the line near…

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Flood Hold-up

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 7

AN ALL too common sight in Windsor district yesterday…

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Flood Advice

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 13

The centre of the recent disturbance has moved to Victoria, and the rain eased yesterday in New South Wales. Further rain is expected to…

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Towns Flood As Hawkesbury Rises Residents Leave Homes for Safety

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 7

WITH the flood waters 31ft. above mean level at Windsor yesterday, many parts of the Hawkesbury valley were…

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"Cyclone" Is the Test

The Sun · Sunday 25 February 1934 · page 9

As foreseen, last week's wordlet "Animal" reaped a great harvest. The inmates of Noah's Ark were…

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Salvation Army of Storm Troops! London

The Sun · Sunday 25 February 1934 · page 3

"Militarism, religion, and health are to the new German what sport, religion, and health are to Britons," writes a…

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Stole Food for Family Floods Wash Out Tent Home

Truth · Sunday 25 February 1934 · page 9

DISTRESSING and pitiful circumstances surround the case of a starving family of three, the…

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Earle Page Party Capsize In Flood GRAFTON

Truth · Sunday 25 February 1934 · page 16

DR. EARLE PAGE, his daughter Mary and son Douglas, aged 17, Mr. W. L. Tart, and a boy named Arthur Onions, of Grafton, had narrow escapes…

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Sick Man Carried Through Flood

The Sun · Sunday 25 February 1934 · page 2

Durng the last three days, Tweed Dstrct ambulance has answered a remarkable succession of calls, with both cars in…

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Switch-boards Flashed Severe Storm in Queensland Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 5

FLOODS in North Queensland have recoded and railway traffic between Townsville and Cairns was resumed yesterday…

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Floods Abate. Hawkesbury Damage. Submerged Roads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 10

An improved position was reported yesterday from districts in many parts of the State where severe floodings had occurred and anxiety was being felt…

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Boat Overturns In Flooded River. Dr. Earle Page's Escape. (From Our Special Reporter.) Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 9

Dr. Earle Page, with two members of his family and two companions, narrowly escaped death from drowning when their boat overturned and they were plunged into the flooded…

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Milk Delivery During Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 12

Mr. Bruce Walker, M.L.A. (on extreme left), assisting settlers near Windsor in the delivery of milk by motor boat…

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Carrying Supplies by Motor Boat During Floods at Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 12

THE SUBMERGED WINDSOR BRIDGE WAS EIGHT FEET UNDER WATER AT THE SPOT WHERE THIS LAUNCH WAS CARRYING SUPPLIES ON SATURDAY…

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Heavy Loss Farmers' Crops Windsor District Floods Recede

The Sun · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 9

FURTHER heavy rain fell in the Windsor district this morning. The general flood position showed…

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£100,000 Flood Damage Hawkesbury River Falling

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 1

WINDSOR, Sunday.--The Hawkesbury River is steadily falling, and all roads out of Windsor are expected to be clear for traffic to-morrow…

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Flood Waters Recede Showers Forecast: Danger Unlikely

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 1

Flood waters receded in most of the affected river systems yesterday, and although scattered showers in coastal areas are forecast by the…

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Storm Damage at Railway Crossing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 10

A result of the storm. A railway bridge, betwe en Mittagong and Bowral, which collapsed…

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But When The Real Storm Starts!

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 4

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Storm Toll America Ravaged 55 Dead Vancouver

The Sun · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 11

FIFTY-FIVE are dead as a result of winter storm tragedies, throughout the United States and Canada,…

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