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Floods & storms, 1934

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Flood Damage Resown Pastures Do Well at Bodalla

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 28 June 1934 · page 4

THE trials and difficulties that beset the farmer were brought home forcefully to our dairy representative when he made a visit to Bodalla a few weeks ago…

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Causes in No. 5 COURT. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Markell and jury.) Flood Waters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 June 1934 · page 5

Robinson v Commissioner of Railways. A settlement was announced in the action in which Albert Edward Robinson, of Burren-street, Erskineville, sought to recover £500…

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Gale Destroys Communications. Eden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 12

Following an easterly gale which raged along the coast on Monday, Gabo Island lighthouse is again telephonically isolated. Communication between that station and…

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NO. 3 Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Markell and juries.) Flood Waters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 5

Robinson v Commissioner for Railways. When the hearing was resumed on Weduesday, Mr. R. R. Kidston (counsel for the plaintiff) asked the leave of his Honor to…

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200,000 Left Homeless Assam's Flood Toll Calcutta

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 8

The Government of Assam has sanctioned the appropriation of large sums for flood relief, particularly in the Nowgong district, where 200,000…

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Flooding of Land

The Biz · Friday 29 June 1934 · page 8

J. Chapman, in a letter to Fairfield Council, stated that water had been turned from the main road on to property in the vicinity of Malta and Mandarin…

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Gales in Tasman. Freighter Driven Back to Port

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 June 1934 · page 15

Gales on the Tasman Sea forced the Union S.S. Co.'s freighter Kalingo to return to Wellington, after having mode little headway on leaving port…

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Heavy Flood Toll 200 Dead in Assam Calcutta

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 June 1934 · page 5

Two hundred inhabitants, it is estimated, are dead in Assam as the result of the flood. Three hundred villages have been destroyed, while…

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Tracks Gone Floods Aid Native Killers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 June 1934 · page 7

CAIRNS, Friday.--Police searching for the natives who killed Alex Brown, near Kirrlma Station, by slicing his back in a purification…

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Aimee Finds Her Second Love But a Divorce Storm Brews Early

The Sun · Sunday 1 July 1934 · page 12

In last Sunday's instalment of her own story Aimee Semple McPherson told of her first male's death in China. She continues today…

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Tiger on Raft. Flood Refugees Unharmed. CALCUTTA, June 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 July 1934 · page 10

The floods in Assam are receding, but many thousands of people are homeless and starving, and there is grave danger of cholera and smallpox in many centres…

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Heavy Coastal Rain. Low Temperatures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 July 1934 · page 12

Heavy ram occurred along the coast of New South Wales during the week-end, and a number of registrations of over two inches were reported…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, July 3, 1934. Hitler Rides the Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 July 1934 · page 10

Events in Germany have not surprised the outside world. Even before Herr von Papen made his sensational speech on June 18 there had…

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Flooded Ground Thornleigh School

The Sun · Tuesday 3 July 1934 · page 16

"The Inspector of Schools told me when he was here that it was scandalous that children should have to put up with these conditions," said…

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Steamer in Gale. Lashed by Mountainous Seas. Stud Horses' Escape. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 July 1934 · page 13

During a terrific storm in mid-ocean the steamer Tongariro had to be hove to for more than four hours while the crew poured oil overboard in an endeavour to keep down the…

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No Import Flood

The Sun · Wednesday 4 July 1934 · page 17

London, Tuesday.--There is no likelihood of Australia returning to the 1926-27 level of imports, Mr. H. L. Setchell told the "Chamber of…

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Exports Still Dropping But Flood Into Aust. Continues Shipments Of Wool And Wheat Are Reduced FOR 11 Months Canberra Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 July 1934 · page 7

MAINLY due to reduced exports of wool and wheat, exports from Australia again, showed a marked decline during May, while imports…

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Tongariro in Gale

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 5 July 1934 · page 4

While steaming through the Indian Ocean, the steamer Tongariro which arrived at Melbourne on Tuesday last, encountered a…

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Severe Snow Storms North Island of N.z. in Winter's Grip

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 July 1934 · page 5

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.--The North Island is held fast in the severest winter grip for years. Heavy snow blocks many roads, and…

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Third TEST or DELUGE?

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 July 1934 · page 8

OLD TRAFFORD, Manchester, a Test ground of romance and tradition, on whose glorious fielding sward and…

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