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Floods & storms, 1934

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Flying in Blinding Storms Thrilling Story Of Dutch Plane Operator Tells

The Labor Daily · Thursday 25 October 1934 · page 8

THRILLING narrative of the journey of Parmentier's plane through blinding rainstorms on Tuesday night and Wednesday…

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Prince Expected To Get Through Despite Flood Damage Tour After State Ball Twisted Rails Gang Rushes Repairs Canberra Problem Canberra

The Sun · Thursday 25 October 1934 · page 19

DESPITE difficulties in repairing tracks twisted by floodwaters between Canberra and Queanbeyan, it was officially stated this afternoon that there was every possibility of the line being in…

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Floodings In Two Towns Water in Homes Bathurst Rescues Damage at Orange

The Sun · Thursday 25 October 1934 · page 20

SERIOUS floodings occurred to-day at Orange and Bathurst, following torrential rains. Floods are feared in many other areas, rivers and creeks having overflown their banks in places…

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Flood Warning by Weather Bureau

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 October 1934 · page 1

So heavy are rainfalls expected to be over inland areas of the State that Mr. Mares yesterday issued a flood warning…

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Gene Liked Course and Beat a Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 3

GENE SARAZEN and Joe Kirkwood yesterday defeated A. N. Waterson and A. W. East by 2 and 1 in an exhibition match on The Lakes Golf…

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Bird Victims Of Storm COONAMBLE

The Sun · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 9

At West Coonamble during a cyclonic storm there was temporary disconnection of the electric wires from the powerhouse…

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N.S.W. Mortgage Adjustment To Be Modelled On N.Z. Plan? Scheme to Stabilise Dairy Industry Long-Term Mortgage Credit Danger of Flooding U.K. Butter Market with Subsidised Exports

The Land · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 7

THE New Zealand proposals for placing the dairying industry on a better footing are of particular interest to…

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Tour to Proceed Despite the Floods. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 12

An official announcement late this afternoon removed a fear that the Duke of Gloucester's departure from Canberra might be postponed, with a consequential alteration of the next…

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Heavy Floods In New South Wales and Victoria. Enormous Damage. Stock Drowned; Road and Rail Washaways

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 11

Torrential storms over the southern and western parts of New South Wales and over Victoria early yesterday, following days of persistent rain, caused extensive floods. Crops, fences, and roads were submerged and damaged. Stock were…

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Orr and Nelson Receive Enthusiastic Support Mass Meeting, By Resolution Expresses Disgust With Splitting Tactics Miners' to Be Flooded with Lying Leaflet Anlezark Squibs Challenge

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 1

C. Nelson, genera! president, and W. Orr, general secretary of the Miners' Federation, were accorded an exceptionally enthusiastic welcome by mass meetings of miners at Cessnock and Kurri Kurri on Sunday. October 21. when they attended to give a record…

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Guarding Shops Wagga Fears Big Floods Families Move River Rising Climax on

The Sun · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 11

CONVINCED that a river height of 30ft. is certain on Sunday, Wagga business people already have bricks stacked on the footpaths, in readiness to brick up shop entrances to a height of three feet. Some have…

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Floods Surround Bank

The Sun · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 11

Flood waters surrounding the offices of the Commonwealth Bank at Orange…

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Large Areas Flooded in Two States Several Families Homeless Men Take Refuge In Trees At Bathurst Traffic Delay

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 7

FLOC: have occurred in Victoria, Canberra and Western New South Wales, submerging large areas of low-lyinG land and…

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Floods Threaten Success of Royal Visit

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 9

NORMALLY SO YARDS WIDE, the Molonglo River, Federal Capital Territory, was swelled to more than half a mile by the worst flood since 1925. Pears that the Royal Trains progress would be impeded were calmed late yesterday, when the result of the work of breakdown gangs on the damaged…

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What Flood Waters Did Near Canberra

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 5

THE SEVERITY of the floods which threatened to isolate Canberra, and impede the departure of the Royal Train, may be seen from…

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Floods Halt Traffic Road and Rail Hold-ups Man Six Hours In Tree

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 October 1934 · page 9

BRIDGES were swept away and rail traffic temporarily suspended by floods yesterday in the Riverina, Bathurst, and…

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Grasshopper Control. Assistance of Heavy Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 13

FORBES, Friday.—The heavy rains of the past few days have killed count[?]ess mi[?] of young grasshoppers, and have made easier the task for the men on the land in fighting…

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Plane Wreckage? Storms May Reveal "Miss Hobart"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Air Accidents Investigation Committee, which is probing the disappearance of the Tasmanian air liner, "Miss…

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Two Race Fliers Hours Overdue Fighting Dust-storms in North Not Reported Since 5 p.m. Anxiety for Their Safety

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 1

CHARLEVILLE, Saturday Morning.--The New Zealanders, Flight-Lieut. Macgregor and H. C. Walker, flying in the handicap section of the Air Race, are hours overdue at…

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Torrential Rains Cause Floods at Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 October 1934 · page 18

Following a torrential downpour on Thursday, the main business soction of the town of Orange was inundated. Above is shown Summer-street, looking east. Above, left: The Lands Office Reserve, Orange, under water. Right: Lord's-place, Orange, looking south. Traffic was consideraly impeded and [?]stantial damage was done [?] business premises…

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