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Floods & storms, 1935

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Storm Damage in W.A. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1935 · page 12

Estimates by settlers to-day of the losses which they suffered through the cyclonic storm which swept through part of the orchard and vegetable growing areas of the Darling…

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Overboard in Gale Diver's Tale of Wreck: Marooned a Week

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 April 1935 · page 7

BROOME, Wednesday.--Nine disabled pearling luggers have reached Broome since yesterday, but 12 boats are still…

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Fierce Storm. Ship's Officers Injured. Auckland (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 April 1935 · page 15

The steamer Hurunui, which has arrived from Liverpool, encountered a fierce gale when crossing the Atlantic. The fourth officer was washed off the bridge by a great sea, and was…

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Life-Saving Examiner Withdraws Resignation "To Squash Rumors" Threatened Storm Ends in Calm Newcastle's Waxed Line Victory

Referee · Thursday 4 April 1935 · page 10

AN unexpected decision teas made by Mr. M. J. ("Mick") Burke, S.L.S.A. examiner-in-chief, at Tuesday night's council meeting, when the…

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Hurunui in Storm

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 5

The N.Z.S. steamer Hurunui, whilst bound from Liverpool to New Zealand, encountered a fierce storm when crossing the Atlantic…

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"LEONTA." Dreadful Storm Recalled

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 18

I cannot help thinking that Mr. W. R. Rudd, whose article on "Leonta" ("S.M.H.," Feb. 23) interested me greatly, has confused a minor gale with the supreme catastrophe which visited…

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Suffocated Cyclone Took Ducks' Breath Away

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 11

What happened to Kalamunda's ducks, 40 of which are reported as being suffocated by a cyclone? Maybe the air-velocity on the…

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Cyclone Distress West Australian Settlers Faced with Ruin

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 7

PERTH, Thursday.--Distress in the Bickley, Carmel, and Carilla districts as a result of the recent cyclone is acute…

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Storm Damage on W.a. Farms

The Land · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 46

Estimates of the damage caused by a wild storm which swept the orchard and vegetable-growing areas of the Darling Ranges,…

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40 Believed to Be Dead Disastrous Cyclone Perth

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 1

A MESSAGE from Broome states that 40 persons are known to have been drowned in the cyclone of last week, and over 100 are still…

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Storm Damage Traffic Held Up in Some Centres Near Goulburn

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 4

GOULBURN, Thursday. -- Last night's thunderstorm was one of the severest in the experience of people living at Mummell, Parkesbourne…

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General Booth. Car Stopped by Storm. Shelter in Settler's Home. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 13

General Evangeline Booth had an unenviable experience last night, when she was caught in a storm. She was travelling from Goulburn by car at the time, and in a few…

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Rescued Cat In Flooded Pit Thrown Down In Sack

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 April 1935 · page 15

A cat was tied in a sack and thrown down a flooded pit shaft at Bollshill, Lanarkshire, more than a week ago, but it managed to get its paws…

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Toll of Storm. Death-roll of 141. Commercial Loss of £24,700. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 18

Of the 36 vessels of rhe pearling fleet which was struck by a willy-willy in the northwest, 14 have returned to Broome, 20 are lost, and unaccounted for, and two are battened…

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Suspend Planes in Path of Thundering Gale London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 1

A NEW aeronautic wind tunnel, one of the largest in the world, was set in motion by the Air Minister, Lord…

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Death Blast Storm's 34 Victims New York

The Sun · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 7

THHIRTY-FOUR persons lost their lives in a tornado which swept across the southern United States last…

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A Storm in U.A.P. Tea Party Cup Police Sooled on to Jarvie Wanted To Know Movements 'Unseen Force'

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 1

INDIGNATION and resentment prevailed in U.A.P. circles in the Ashfield electorate at the week-end when it became known that a sergeant of police, acting under instructions,…

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Cruisers in Storm Hobart

The Sun · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 13

The cruisers Canberra and Sussex arrived from New Zealand to-day after a severe buffeting. They will leave for Sydney next Tuesday…

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20 DEAD Smash And Floods SACRAMENTO

The Sun · Wednesday 10 April 1935 · page 1

Ten railway workers were killed when their motor car crashed into a work train on the Southern Pacific railway near here…

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Sea Peril Lady Mountbatten Met Cyclone

The Sun · Thursday 11 April 1935 · page 21

PICTURE one of England's most .beautiful women, exotically clad, serenely composed in an atmosphere of…

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