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Floods & storms, 1935

1,160 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 58

Steamer Gale. To be Renamed "Wannon."

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 4

The steamer Gale, which was recenty purchased by the Belfast & Koroit Steam Navigation Co. of Port Fairy, is to be renamed "Wannon,"…

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Threat to Storm Parliament. Angry N.Z. Women

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 7

A deputation of relief workers' wives, who waited on the N.Z. Minister for Employment (Mr. Young) at Parliament House, Wellington (N.Z.), last Thursday…

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Helpless Off the Heads in Night Storm All on Deck When Steering Went

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 8

BY 20 minutes the inter- State cargo steamer Coolana escaped disaster on North Head rocks in Monday night's storm,…

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N.Z. FLOODS Boats To Rescue AUCKLAND

The Sun · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 12

For the sixth time in 12 months North Auckland is experiencing floods. The inundations are particularly severe in the Whangarei and…

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N.Z. Floods Cause Great Damage

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 March 1935 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.-- Flood waters are rapidly rising north of Auckland. On some roads water is…

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Western News Nearly Big Fire Blacktown Outbreak Severe Storm

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 5

A heave storm at Blacktown on Monday evening, besides being responsible for breakage of several windows, nearly caused a disastrous fire at the…

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Auckland Floods. Extensive Damage Reported. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 March 1935 · page 12

The North Auckland floods are the most severe that have been experienced for many years. Hundreds of acres of farms are submerged, and many families were isolated,…

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Fierce Storm Nth. Coast Damage GRAFTON

The Sun · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 11

A terrific local storm burst over Tabulam, on the Upper Clarence, at 8.30 a.m. to-day, an inch of rain falling in 10 minutes…

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Police Raid in Berlin Storm Troopers Among Suspects

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 15 March 1935 · page 4

MOSCOW. — The Berlin correspondents of the Moscow newspapers report:— “ In the evening of January 17 a…

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Storm Terror; Terrific Gale Trees Snapped Like Twigs Fire at Height of Fury Jumping Out of Windows in Dark Lismore

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 1

TREES five feet in diameter snapped, and sheets of galvanised iron wrapped like paper around branches of trees 18ft from…

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North Coast Gale Man Shut In; Shed Bowled Along Road

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 7

LISMORE, Friday.--Mr. Sams, engineer at the Main Roads camp at Mallanganee, was working in a small office this morning when a gale…

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Gale Strike Camp. Office Hurled on Side. Engineer Imprisoned. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 16

As the engineer of the Main Roads camp at Mallanganee (Mr. Sams) was working in a small office this morning, a gale lifted the office from its foundations, and hurled it on…

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Mr. Stevens Bows Before The Storm Unjust Taxation on Public Servants "Smith's" Forecast Was Right But Why the Differentiation?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 10

ON February 23 "Smith's Weekly" made an exclusive forecast that Mr. B. S. Stevens would bow before the Public Service storm and announce a restoration-- in part-- of the unjust special taxation imposed upon the Civil Service under the Salaries Reduction Act. The forecast…

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Secret History of the Day. Slap To Public Service- Two Pupils Who Grew Up Arthur Streeton Outwitted - Through Floods To Wedding

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 18

AT Bathurst an out- of- parish Anglican clergyman is enrolled as a relief worker. He is an expert gardener, and so is employed in Machattie Park, while his wife helps to keep the wolf away by…

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Struggled for Lives in Flood Wellington (N.z.), Fri

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 1

SEVEN passengers in a van that into Jackson's Creek, in the Auckland district which is a raging [?]orrent owing to heavy rain, had…

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Storms, Floods Devastate Rich N.Z. Province Dairy Cows Killed, Chimneys Blasted Lightning Worst in History Dead Stock Fill the Rivers Auckland

The Sun · Sunday 17 March 1935 · page 2

Terrific lightning and storms have caused widespread havoc in Auckland Province. Many townships are in darkness, while valuable dairy cows have been struck dead in the paddocks and hundreds of chimneys wrecked…

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Severe Floods Mississippi Valley Inundated Memphis (Tennessee), Sat

Truth · Sunday 17 March 1935 · page 16

TEN THOUSAND are already homeless owing to the devastating floods in the Mississippi Valley, following a thaw after a heavy cold spell…

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Eight Harbor Rescues During Strong Gale

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 5

During the 35 m.p.h. gale which swept the harbor on Saturday afternoon, Sergeant Holby and Constable McCloughry. in thoe water police…

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Deluge of Entries From Readers for "Give It a Name" Send Your Title, And Share Daily Awards

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 9

PUBLIC enthusiasm for "Give It A Name" was amply demonstrated by a deluge of week-end entries from competitors in the first of the re-opened series of contests. To-morrow morning, the first of the 10 daily awards of…

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Flood Havoc in N. Z.

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 5

Wellington (N .Z.) Sunday. Floods almost equalling In severity those experienced in Victoria last year are being felt…

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