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Floods & storms, 1934

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Cyclonic Storm Wind Wrecks Houses in Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 11

BRISBANE, Wednesday.--A series of violent storms, accompanied by cyclonic wind and hail, broke over the city and suburbs this afternoon…

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Storm Damaged Crops. Appeal from the Temora District

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 9

TEMORA, Wednesday.—A meeting of farmers who had suffered the loss of crops in the recent hailstorm was largely attended at Sebastopol last night. The object was to…

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The Man on the Land Reports and Hints. Flood Damage in the West

The Catholic Press · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 29

Following the recent Heavy rains in the Central West and Riverina, thousands of pounds worth of damage has been done by floods. The Macquarie, Lachlan and…

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Maize Suffers October's Excessive Rains and Floods Damage Crops

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 10

THE excessively wet conditions prevailing during october delayed maize planting to such an extent that the area normally sown to early maize will be well…

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Possibility of the Flood. A Difficulty, Surry Hills, asks

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 6

Replying to a question re the flood, you suggested that it was probably confined to the then know world and not as recorded in the Bible, the whole of the…

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Did the Flood Occur?

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 7

The story of the Ark and flood is my hical. Quite apart from the Bible, the most ancient Babylonian traditions, and recent archaeological excavations and research…

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Flood Damage. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 12

Hume Shire Council dealt with a large number of reports fiom ratepayers that the recent floods had caused serious damage to their properties, with heavy losses of fencing. The…

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Ratrut Suffers Flood Damage

The Sun · Thursday 15 November 1934 · page 4

Ratrut Basin Tin [?]edging Co. Ltd. reports output for the first half of November as follows:--Total Nos. 1 and 2 dredges, 197 hours, 29,000 c. yards, 1¾ tons. The…

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Country News. Flood Damage. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 November 1934 · page 12

The Abercrombie Shire Council applied to the Local Government Department for a special grant of £3145 towards the cost of repairing roads and bridges damaged in the…

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SMALL Yachting Fleets in Gale

The Sun · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 6

A southerly gale thinned the fleets of competitors in today's yacht races. For the Mg event, the Jackson…

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The Huge Cost of Storm Ridden Melbourne Cup

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 9

FLEMINGTON'S caretaker says it will cost nearly £3000 to put the course and lawns into a semblance of order as the result of the Cup and…

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Flood Safeguards. Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 18

In reply to representations made on behalf of the Hawkesbury District Flood Prevention Association, Mr. Ronald B. Walker, M.L.A., has been informed by the Minister for Public…

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Burrinjuck Dam and Floods. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 November 1934 · page 18

There ate differences of opinion about the release of water from Burrinjuck Dam. At a meeting of farmers a resolution was carried unanimously protesting against the…

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Before Gale!

The Sun · Sunday 18 November 1934 · page 54

Big yachts fighting their way down harbor in a smother of spray. Competitors in the F. J. Jackson Cup yesterday…

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Winter Nips in S. Australia Blamed for Gale Spell

Truth · Sunday 18 November 1934 · page 24

WILD gusts of wind that reached a velocity of nearly 50 miles an hour yesterday capsized small craft on the Harbor,…

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Winter Gale Digs City in the Ribs Holiday: Yachts "Sunk"

The Sun · Sunday 18 November 1934 · page 2

To the blustering accompaniment of "a song that was nothing but wind," winter blew in on Sydney yesterday--blew in…

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Yachts Crippled Gale's Many Victims Two Finished In Cup Race

The Sun · Sunday 18 November 1934 · page 52

Crippled by the gale, which at times raged at 50 m.p.h., yachts competing yesterday in the Royal Prince Alfred…

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Speed Boats Speedboats in the Gale Thrilling Races Through Choppy Seas Dick Smith Breaks the Ice

Truth · Sunday 18 November 1934 · page 9

PLENTY of thrills were served up by speedboats competing in yesterday's events. The gale made things uncomfortable, but the racing was always interesting. IT was too rough for the speedboats…

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Will Not Fly In A Cyclone

The Sun · Monday 19 November 1934 · page 14

The Weather Bureau has informed Whitehead and Nicholl, the two young pilots, who intend flying to New Zealand, that a cyclonic…

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Motor Boating. Racing in a Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 November 1934 · page 16

Competitors in the sealed handican from Rose Bay to Manly and back, about nine miles promoled by the Royal Motor Yacht Club of New South Wales on Saturday afternoon, raced in a gale which…

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