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Floods & storms, 1934

1,640 stories in Sydney's papers · page 51 of 82

Flood Slime Pitiful Plight of Families Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 August 1934 · page 1

Despite the great work to assist the families in distress as a result of the floods and to restore conditions to normal, much yet…

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Storm Damage

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 1

Yesterday morning, when the gale was raging at its highest the was at Chisholm's stables collapsed, (See story on page 6, column 6.)…

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Dead and Injured in Storm Gale Expected To Become Worse To-day Ships' Fight

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 6

.AN elderly man was knocked down and killed, a policeman on traffic duty was knocked down and admitted to hospital with a…

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Rain and Gales. Coastal Floods Feared. Warning to Shipping

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 9

Heavy rain and hall squalls and gales were experienced along the seaboard between Newcastle and Jervis Bay yesterday, and as a continuance of heavy rain is expected to-day…

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Record Flight From Bega. Gale Aids Air Mail

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 7

An Adastra Airways mail and passenger 'plane, designed for a cruising speed of 95 m.p.h.—being a de Havilland Fox Moth— created a record for the flight from Bega to…

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One Dead, Many Hurt in Storm Coldest Day This Winter

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 1

RAIN was indirectly responsible last night for the death of man at Liverpool, the injury of a constable at King's…

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Floods in Manchukuo. Damage and Loss of Life. SHANGHAI, Aug. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 9

While Central China is suffering from a prolonged heat wave and drought conditions, parts of Manchukuo are experiencing disastrous floods. Unprecedented torrential rains…

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Sydney Deluged Fall Near Record Rivers May Flood

The Sun · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 8

INCESSANT rain since yesterday afternoon, accompanied by southerly gusts at times attaining gale force, reached the height of its violence during the night, when almost every suburb in the metropolitan area…

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Flood In Centennial Park

The Sun · Tuesday 21 August 1934 · page 1

"A sea" in Centennial Park to-day.--The lake has overflowed and spread around the trees in the picture that are usually high and dry…

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City Deluge Not Out of Wet Yet

The Sun · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 12

The deluge in the metropolitan area continued last night and this morning. At the Weather Bureau 449 points…

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Homing Pigeons in Storm Weston

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 8

ONE hundred and six pigeons belonging to members of the Western Homing Club are believed to…

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Suburbs Deluged by Storm Over 4 Ins. North Of Harbor Ships Delayed

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 6

ACCOMPANIED by vivid lightning flashes, thunder and hail, the cyclonic storm centred about Sydney reached its height…

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700 Swept to Death in a Deluge Big Dams Burst on the City Follow In Wake Of Cloudburst Tragic Scene Harbin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 1

WHEN a deluge followed in the wake of a cloudburst in the city of Untung, Manchukuo, two reservoirs burst their dams and…

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Man in Tree Snatched From Flood NARRANDERA

The Sun · Wednesday 22 August 1934 · page 13

Attempting to cross a flooded creek to escape from the rising Murrumbidgee, a man named Smirling, who was camped five miles from…

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Coastal Rain. Inland Weather Fine. Flood Position

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 August 1934 · page 13

The rainfall recorded yesterday morning was chiefly confined to the coastal areas. In the metropolitan area, the falls up to 9 a.m., in a number of suburbs, were heavy, ranging…

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Vivid Events In Fourth Test-- The Great Flood At Headingley

The Sun · Thursday 23 August 1934 · page 32

Above: "LONG shadows on the grass" in a pleasant Camden field. Above: THE END FOR DON.-- And what an end! Bradman was bowled by Bowes, after he had made 304 in the fourth Test. One bail is flying through the air, another is…

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Storm Troop Detachments Go Over to Communism. BERLIN

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 3

“There seems to be a quietness outwardly in Germany, but under this seeming quietness is hidden a gloomy unrest, mainly owing to the fact that…

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Flood-harassed Settler. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 12

Ralph Ellis, of Wolla, applied to the Land Board for relief on account of storm and flood damage. The chairman said that it would appear that a considerable area of the holding…

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Fatal Floods Sweep Poland -- --The Nazi "Putsch" in Austria

The Sun · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 14

AERIAL VIEW of a damaged railway bridge during the floods in Southern Poland, in which at least 100 people were drowned. (See other picture, bottom right of page).--Air Mail. TROOPS, with machine guns, entering the Vienna radio building after a fierce battle during the "putsch" at the time Dr. Dollfuss was killed--Air Mail…

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Many Dead, And Valuable Crops Under Floods MOSCOW,Thursday

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 August 1934 · page 1

A LARGE number of deaths and casualties have been caused by tropical storms at Sukhum, near Batum, and 3300 acres of tobacco, corn and vegetable crops have, been flooded. The damage is estimated at 8,000,000 roubles. The extent of the…

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