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Floods & storms, 1934

1,640 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 82

Clearing Landslides Floods and the Aftermath

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 April 1934 · page 7

RAIL communication between Kiama and Nowra, cut off since Sunday owing to a fall of earth at a tunnel entrance, was…

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Outback Travel Flooded River Necessitates Nurses' 2500.mile Journey

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 15

BECAUSE the Diamantina River was flooded recently, two Australian Inland Mission nurses from Brisbane on their way to Brisbane, in the…

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Extensive Storm Damage

The Propeller · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 3

Bridges washed away, streets stink, in, road surfaces swept off, were just a few of the numerous cases of extensive damage in Sutherland Shire in…

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Storms In Victoria MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 3

Victoria is having its first snowstorms of the year to-day. Already five inches have fallen at Mount Donna, Buang, and Hotham Heights,…

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Rushing to a Crisis at Canberra Storm Clouds Gather Around Restrictions

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 3

WITH restrictions on exports threatening trade with Britain, the Lyons Government is in for a hectic time. The cat is out of of the bag regarding Mr. Brace's mission, and whether the U.A.P. can hold the U.C.P. and stave off an early election is extremely doubtful…

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Compensation. for Flood Damage. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 13

Advice has been received by Mr. R. T. Ball, M.L.A., from the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Spooner), indicating that losses sustained by shires and municipalities through…

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Randwick Drives to Victory Under Full Sail Amazing Display In Gale Towers, Herd and White--hail! 'Varsity Demoralised By Brilliant Backs

The Sun · Sunday 22 April 1934 · page 20

A HARD-DRIVING skipper of the China Tea Race would have gloried in the fierce westerly which blew down Coogee Oval yesterday. Scorning, like such as he, to shorten sail and striding the grassy…

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Sensational Rosaban Plunge Cut Ringmen To Ribbons Coup Worth a Cool £15,000 Deluge of Cash at Dynamite Odds Even Small Fry Punters Wanted to Empty Out on the Good Thing Favorite Home in Common Canter

Truth · Sunday 22 April 1934 · page 2

BOOKMAKERS were flabbergasted when the demand set in for Rosaban in the second heat of yesterday's Highweight Welter Handicap at Moorefield. There's only one way to describe the backing for this cove…

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1000 Are Held When Reds Storm Paris Paris

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 1

OVER a thousand Communist and Socialist demonstrators were arrested when they vainly attempted to storm the Town…

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Ordeal in Gale. Freighter's Officer Injured. Lashed to Bed for 10 Hours. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1934 · page 9

Meeting terrific seas off Cape Schanck, the Patrick line freighter Corrimal, which left North Wharf on Friday night, was forced to leturn to Melbourne yesterday to land the…

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882 Points Fall in Night Deluge at Tully, Qld. Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 6

Tally experienced a deluge late last night when 882 points fell. So far this Tully has registered over [?] Inches, which is [?]…

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Vessels in Gale. Passengers' Discomfiture. Ketch Damaged. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 10

Officers of ships which arrived at Port Melbourne to-day reported that mountainous seas had been encountered off the coast Passengers on the Moreton Bay spent a sleepless…

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Flood Damage. Assistance for Councils

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 8

The State Cabinet has decided to make cash payments to councils to meet flood damage in lieu of the previous offer of assistance in the combined form of cash and labour…

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Flood Damage Grants State Cabinet's Decision

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 6

Following representations by shires' and municipalities for grafts to repair roads and 'bridges damaged by floods; the state…

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Terrifying Ordeal in Sea Gale Launch Adrift In Raging Storm No Petrol

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 5

THE terrifying experience of the occupants of a 28-foot launch which with the petrol supply exhausted and all…

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The Silver Storm

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 16

EVE, I think you really ought to wear a dark frock, dear—not full mourning, of course, but something quiet, for the look of things. I've always believed in the outward decencies,…

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Wrecked in Gale. Two Fishing Boats. Four Men Missing. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 9

Information has been received from New Year Island, adjacent to King Island, that the fishing boats Tagunay and Star have been wrecked…

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Four Lost Ketch Wrecks Confirmed Toll of Storm Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 9

WIRELESS messages from King Island, Bass Strait, this morning, confirmed the reported wreck off New Year…

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Before The Deluge

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 2

An Eastern Suburbs player tackles V. Moses (South Sydney) in the early minutes of the Rugby League match at the Sports Ground yesterday. Harry Finch is the other player in the picture…

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Beneficial Storm

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 14

It had rained heavily for three days, and the old farmer sat on his back steps and moodilly regarded the ravages of the flood. A neighbour pulled up in a…

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