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Floods & storms, 1934

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Sailing Nine in the Brine Sudden Gale Plays Havoc Among Harbor Craft Onda Just in Time

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1934 · page 8

THE Sydney Flying Squadron staged the greatest skittling match of its 40 odd years existence yesterday. NO fewer than nine boats capsized when a terrific white squall caught all the survivors flying along the home stretch with…

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Roaring Flood Menaces Villages Capetown

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1934 · page 10

SWOLLEN by torrential rains, the Orange River is roaring in flood and causing immense damage. South West Africa is isolated…

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Fingerprints Prevented Gruesome Mistake Mayor's Son Nearly Buried As Pauper—Two Meet Awful Death Sensational Flood Sequel

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1934 · page 15

MYSTERIOUSLY, in murky darkness on Saturday night week an awful death overtook two men as they floundered helplessly in the black waters of the Brisbane River at Hamilton, and during the week…

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Half-caste Lost in Flood Trains Held Up in Queensland

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1934 · page 1

BRISBANE, Saturday.--While travelling with cattle near Pittsworth, a half-caste was drowned in the flooded waters of the Condamine…

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Storms At Cootamundra

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 5

Cootamundra, Monday. -- Heavy thunderstorms, with lightning and occasional hail, resulted in 160 points of rain during the week-end…

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Storms At Cootamundra

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 8

Cootamundra, Monday. -- Heavy thunderstorms, with lightning and occasional hull, resulted in 160 points of rain during the week-end…

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Storm in Three States Woman Is Killed By Lightning Fruit Crops Torn by Hail: Flood Warning

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 7

TERRIFIC in their violence, the cyclonic storms that swept Sydney and many other areas, took tragic…

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A Trail Of Death, Fire And Flood Fury of Heavens Let Loose Eastern Portion Of Australia Hit By Storms Terrific Claps

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 6

BRINGING death, fire and flood in their train, a series of terrific electric storms swept across the entire eastern half of…

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GERMANY. Daggers for Storm Troops. LONDON. Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 10

The Minister for Defence (General Roehm) has ordered 2,000,000 Storm Troops and "Steel Helmets" to be equipped with 10-inch daggers. He explains that the dagger is…

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Storm Havoc, see page 6. Head Was Resting on Gas Stove

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 1

In the kitchen of his home in Pockley Avenue Roseville, Mervya Wallis Vider, 34, an exporter, was found dead by his wife on Friday. His head…

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Terrific Storms. Damage in City and Country. Woman Killed by Lightning. Woman, Girl, and Two Boys Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 9

Five deaths occurred during the terrific storms which swept the central and south-eastern parts of the State during the week-end. A woman was struck by lightning; near Lithgow, a boy was drowned at Undercliffe, and another at Goulburn, and a woman and a girl were drowned…

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Hunt for Man-eater To-day -- Air Picture Of Moruya Floods

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 12

WE MUST catch that shark! lite-savers declared at Queensch to-day. Photograph shows the surf club boat, the crew of which has just placed a buoy, with bait attached, in position. The arrow indicates the buoy…

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Forced From Homes By Flood Waters Thrills at Moruya River Is Now Falling Police Help

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 7

OMINOUSLY silent yesterday, after the deluge that swept the South Coast on Saturday afternoon, putting…

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Houses Were Flooded

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 7

Aerial view of houses near Moruya flooded by waters from the Moruya River…

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Victorian Floods Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 7

Torrential rains during the weekend, exceeding four and five inches in the north and north-east of Victoria and in Gippsland, have already…

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From the Air Flight Over Flood Country

The Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 10

In Captain Frank Follett's Fox Moth we set out from Sydney this morning to see how Moruya was faring…

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Minor Floods in South Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 6

Torrential rain fell on Saturday night, resulting in considerable areas of low-lying lands being [?]nundated. Crops were damaged and many roads…

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Alarming Silence of Moruya; Flood Fears

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 1

AS the result of a deluge which descended upon the South Coast with terrific intensity all yesterday afternoon, Moruya…

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Workless Flee Floods Tempest's Havoc at Lockhart

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 7

LOCKHART, Sunday.--Unemployed campers on Brookong Creek had a dreadful experience in their efforts to get to safety when three dams…

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Gales Expose Wreck Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1934 · page 11

Recent gales on the Victorian coast have exposed what are reported to be the remains of the wreck of either the Tamora or the Regia, at the foot…

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