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Floods & storms, 1934

1,640 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 82

Biggest Flood

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 June 1934 · page 17

MILLY [?] (Cuttages).—The recent rain did a lot of damage to roads and bridges. My uncle could not cross the bridge and take the dream, so Dad the bridge Dermagul with the dream. My brother had…

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Qld. Wins at Floodlight Rugger Their Pack Plays Fine All-round Game

Referee · Thursday 14 June 1934 · page 12

QUEENSLAND, alive to opportunities at the Agricultural Show Ground, last Thursday evening, under the floodlights, proved superior to…

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Mass Withdrawals. Storm Troopers. ROTTERDAM, April 27

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 3

The “Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant” reports: “The reports on withdrawals from the Storm Troops have multiplied of…

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Red Paper For Storm Troopers. STRASSBURG, April 28

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 3

The bourgeois daily “Republique” reports from Berlin: “An illegal Communit newspaper. ‘Die Rote Standarte,’ has made its…

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World Wide Crisis Grows Storm Troops a Menace

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 6

FURTHER cables indicate the increasing tension in Germany. The significance of these reports lies…

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£1,000,000 Storm Damage Buenos Aires

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 June 1934 · page 7

HEAVY falls of snow have cut off a number of towns, and communication with the mountain districts is impossible. A famine is feared in the affected areas. The snow followed in the wake…

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THUNDERSTORM. Extensive Showers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 June 1934 · page 20

Following on showers during the night, a sharp thunderstorm broke over the metropolitan area yesterday morning. During the early morning the sky became…

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Police Dash in Storm After Talk with a Trapper

Truth · Sunday 17 June 1934 · page 1

SLOWLY, the police consider, they are dispelling the enshrouding mists of uncertainty and…

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Storm Havoc New Orlkans

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 June 1934 · page 1

THE tall end of the san salvadore burricano which caused thousands of deaths struck this city and surrounding towns and hamients…

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Four Lost In Storm

The Sun · Wednesday 20 June 1934 · page 13

Her decks ballered into Wreckage and her rigging carried away, the Norwegian freighter Childar, Was photographed as she Was being lowed into harbor at Esquimalt, British Columbia, after four members of the crew had been lost in a storm…

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Storms Rage in India Calcutta

The Sun · Wednesday 20 June 1934 · page 15

Severe storms have occurred in Bengal and South India and Assam, with serious damage. Five persons were killed at…

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Leaves Of Hansard Sphinx- Like As the Storm Raged Napole on of the Speakers. Picturesque Willis

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 June 1934 · page 4

MUCH as I expected sparks of fire to spit at me from the pages where rest the records of Henry Willis, perhaps oest-remembered Speaker of the Parliament of New South Wales, I find him on the afternoonof February 26, 1912, sitting imperturbable, sphinx-like in his calm…

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Floods in New Zealand. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 June 1934 · page 17

The Wanganella arrived from Sydney six hours late, owing to thick weather. A strong gale is raging, with heavy rain, causing floods in many country districts. The railway…

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Flood of Color

The Sun · Wednesday 20 June 1934 · page 20

CONCEALED balloons and streamers, released at a given, signal, made a colorful canopy over the dancers at the dance organised by…

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Serious Floods in N.z. Mine Saved Just in Time

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 June 1934 · page 7

AUCKLAND, Tuesday. -- The most serious floods in 40 years have occurred north of Auckland. Many Kaitala residences are…

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BODALLA Meritorious Win, Despite the Damage by Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 21 June 1934 · page 5

NOWHERE on the South Coast were the devastating effects of floods more seriously apparent than in the damage done at "Old Bodalla" the 685-acre farm…

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Training Under Floodlights

Referee · Thursday 21 June 1934 · page 18

VICTORIAN Football League clubs that are finding difficulty in completing their training satisfactorily before darkness…

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Story for the Kiddies The Adventures Of Will Wattle-Gum The Two Ants Thought It Was a Flood

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 June 1934 · page 11

ARTHUR, Antony and Adrian Ant are kept very, busy nowadays with their tailoring shop, but yesterday Arthur and Antony found tirae…

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Pig Mascot But Cyclone Met

The Sun · Friday 22 June 1934 · page 13

All manner of virtues were ascribed to a small wooden pig, brought on board the Dutch steamer van Rees in New Guinea…

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Floodlighting Guildford Deputation to Granville Council

The Biz · Friday 22 June 1934 · page 7

A deputation of Guildford business people waited upon Granville Council on Tuesday night with reference to a floodlighting in the shopping centre of that…

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