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Floods & storms, 1934

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Northern Settlers Outlet for Flood Waters Needed

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 7 June 1934 · page 12

DAMAGE and anxiety caused by Flood waters have so disturbed the settlers on the Northern Rivera that various bodies representing their views have…

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FLOODLIGHTS To-night's Match Rugby League

The Sun · Thursday 7 June 1934 · page 15

Since their defeat in New South Wales on Monday, the Queensland Rugby League team has been coached by "Nigger"…

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Under Floodlight N.S.W. and Q. League Giants at Agri. To-night

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 June 1934 · page 3

FOR the first time in Rugby League history an inter-State match will be played under floodlight at the Agricultural Ground to-night…

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Payments Remitted Flood, Fire, and Storm Relief

The Land · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 13

DURING sittings at Ungarie and Tullibigeal this week, the Wyalong Land Board dealt with seventy applications for relief on account of…

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Storm Is Growing Each Day Shire Instructs Members To Oppose RESENTMENT

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 9

OPPOSITION to the Sydney Corporation Amendment Bill is being aroused in quarters unexpected by the Government…

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Flooded 'Rainless' Area Chilean Disaster 90,000 Homeless Valparaiso

The Sun · Saturday 9 June 1934 · page 3

TWENTY-THREE persons are dead and 90,000 homeless following a week of tempest and floods in…

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Far East Storm Centre

The Sun · Sunday 10 June 1934 · page 5

The massing of Soviet troops along the border of Manchukuo points to the extreme tension between Russia and Japan, This map indicates the position…

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Civic Politics Unmasked the Storm Brews a Retired Town Clerk Gives Warning

The Sun · Sunday 10 June 1934 · page 6

The last six months of Alderman Gilpin's term as Lord Mayor were as lively and full of incident as any in the…

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Wall Blown Down on Man in Cyclone Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 8

Henry O'Neill, 24, of Maylands, was critically injured when a brick wall was blown down on him during a cyclone yesterday. The wall, which…

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Storm Toll Now Believed 900 SEOUL. (Korea), Sun

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 1

THE toll of the storm that lashed the west coast of Korea last Monday is so heavy that it is impossible to…

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GERMANY. New Crisis Looms. Storm Troops. Order to Disband. (From Our Special Representative.) London, June 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 10

Well-informed circles in London Relieve that Germany is on the eve of a fresh economic and political crisis, involving a virtual military dictatorship…

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Plucky Girl Saved Two From Drowning in Creek Trapped in Car 10-Feet Plunge Thrill in Storm Narooma

The Sun · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 7

THE heroism of Miss Marie Hyland, 7-year- old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hyland, of the Hotel…

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A Federal Surplus of £2,625,000 Smashing Down of Tariffs Flood: Of Overseas Goods Into The Country FOR; 11 Months Canberra

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 8

LARGELY due to the smashing down of tariff walls with the consequent flood of oversea goods into the country,…

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Heavy Rain On the Coast. Only Slight Inland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 June 1934 · page 10

Light showers fell mer the far western central and southern inland areas during the week end and heavy rain was reported from the south coast and tableland. Fine…

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Villages Wiped Out 2500 DEAD Gale and Flood Landslides New York

The Sun · Tuesday 12 June 1934 · page 1

THE hurricane which swept Central America last week, and which was accompanied by floods and…

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Disastrous Storm In Central America. Appallng Death-roll. New York, June 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 June 1934 · page 13

A hurricane which swept Central America last week, causing floods and landslides, was responsible for the deaths of at least 2500 people, and probably many more…

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Fast Leg-Theory Storm Threatens Won't' Play Counties Upset Bad Feeling LARWOOD & Voce London

The Sun · Wednesday 13 June 1934 · page 13

A. E. R. GILLIGAN, writing in the "News-Chronicle," says a domestic storm is threatened by Notts' perseverance…

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Across the Flooded Creek

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 13 June 1934 · page 44

At Thistlebank, Aramac, Queensland. When the water rose a number of long benches were placed on end across the creek to enable the sheep to be driven to the shearing shed comparatively dry…

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Thousands Killed by Hurricane Floods Follow New York. Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 June 1934 · page 1

MORE than 2500 persons are reported to have lost their lives and many thousands more were injured in a hurricane which,…

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Big Storms Sweep N.Z. Wellington (N.z.). Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 June 1934 · page 1

Heavy storms are sweeping New Zealand and shipping has been delayed, by heavy seas. The Ruahine, from London, and other overseas…

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