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Floods & storms, 1934

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Hundreds Rendered Homeless Plight of Workless in South Deputation Tells Harrowing Story To Minister Flood Victims

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 7

THE desperate plight of unemployed campers who were washed out by the recent floods on the South Coast was stressed by a…

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Tide Floods Mackay Pensioners Flee From Homes to Safety

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 9

MACKAY, Tuesday.--Remarkable scenes were witnessed to-night, when the spring tide, aided by the fierce wind, inundated parts of the town…

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Radio in Flood and Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 8

COMMUNICATION by radio is an easy matter nowadays; and in the recent big floods it was a shock to find that towns and districts (notably Moruya) could be completely cut off. Telegraph and telephone both ceased to work…

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Gale Havoc Death And Damage In British Isles LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 1

A severe north- westerly gale swept over the British Isles to- day, gusts at times registering 80 miles an hour. The Clyde overflowed its banks for…

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What a Relief ! Storm In Midst Of Heat Wave MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 17

While the rest of the state is sweltering in the heat, Bogong high plains, in the Australian Alps, is in the grip of a firce electric storm…

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Contour Draining Checks Erosion of Hilly Lands During Heavy Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 3

THE recent heavy floods on the far South Coast have clearly demonstrated the value of contour draining as a means of check-…

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Cabinet Decisions. Draft Bills Considered. Repair of Flood Damage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 10

The State Cabinet yesterday considered the draft bills to amend the Sydney Corporation (City Council) Act and the Western Lands Act…

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Storm Was Cause

The Sun · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 9

Paris, Thursday.--It has been officially announced that the cause of the disaster to the air liner Emeraude was the extreme violence of the…

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After Twelve Months. Claim for Storm Damage

The St George Call · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 1

At the meeting of Rockdale Council last week. a woman wrote enquiring whether anything had been done about a letter she sent in January, 1933,…

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GERMANY. Daggers for Storm Troops. LONDON, Jan. 5

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 4

The Minister for Defence (General Roeh[?]) has ordered 2,000,000 Storm Troops and “Steel Helmets” to be equipped with 10-inch daggers. He…

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Gale in Britain. Much Damage Reported. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 9

A severe north-westerly gale swept over the British Isles this afternoon, the gusts at times registering 80 miles an hour. In parts of Scotland considerable damage was done…

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Warehouse Crash Entombs Workmen Split Into Halves Disaster In Gale At Hull Rescue Perils London

The Sun · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 1

CRACKING from top to bottom, and then collapsing like a house of cards, a 6 story warehouse, occupied by…

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Sheep Drowned Flood Causes Farmer to Lose His Whole Flock

The Land · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 24

It was reported from the Lockhart district that Mr. E. Hinch, whose farm is near Urangeline Creek, lost his entire flock of 450 sheep through…

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Fire and Flood. Indian Earthquake. Death-roll Now 2500. CALCUTTA, Jan. l8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 9

Fire and floods are adding to the havoc caused by the earthquake which rocked India last Monday. The difficulty of relief lies in the fact that it is impossible to reach the…

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Flood Area Premier Is Visiting South Coast

The Sun · Friday 19 January 1934 · page 11

The Premier (Mr. Stevens) left Sydney to-day for a visit to the South Coast and other areas which recently suffered damage by flood…

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Ten Men Drowned. Steamer Abandoned in Gale. LONDON, Jan, 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 15

Ten men, the officers and crew of the London steamer Oakford (679 tons) which stranded in the gale last night after springing a leal off Texel Island (Holland), were…

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Side of Warehouse Collapses During Gale. Workmen Buried in Debris. London, Jan. 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 January 1934 · page 15

The entire side of a warehouse of six floors on the waterfront at Hull, occupied by Gilyott and Company and containing hundreds of tons of loose wheat, collapsed to-day…

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Flood Damage. Premier Visits South Coast Areas

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

The Premler (Mr. Stevens) left Sydney yesterday for the south coast to make an inpectlon of the damage caused by the recent floods. Yesterday he visited Moruya, and…

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Splendid Trial By Head gale

The Sun · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 18

Several Adrian Knox Stakes candidates ran in the Bondi Handicap at Randwick and [?]one recorded a better trial than…

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Emotional Storms Sway Packed, Tense Crowds in Coroners Court Bombshell of Son to Smash Mothers Defence Charge of Husband-murder

Truth · Sunday 21 January 1934 · page 10

A TRAGIC, worn-looking wisp of a woman telling a spellbound court how her husband had shot himself... one of her sons throwing a bombshell into the proceedings by saying his mother had told him to confess that he had killed his dad as she said he would get only two or…

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