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Floods & storms, 1935

1,160 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 58

Chairman Overruled; Union's Knock-on Changed Storm During Debate Motion Is "Out of Order," Said Martin Dissent Move

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 May 1935 · page 3

DISSENT from a ruling of the chairman, Mr. R. A. O. Martin, last night paved the way for the Rugby Union delegates…

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Horse Struck Dead Smoke and Report As Tree Crashes in Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 8

GRAFTON, Tuesday. -- Lightning in a storm at Ulmarra killed a horse owned by H. T. O'Keefe. It was standing in a paddock, and a strip…

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A Wild Trip Greyhounds Battered In Gale Just Got There Little Coal on Way to China

The Sun · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 3

C. Phillips and W. Hannah, who accompanied J. Galbraith with a recent team of Australian greyhounds on the…

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Il Giornale Italiano the Italian Journal 122 Chalmers St., Sydney. 'Phone Ma2697 MAY 15, 1935. Storm Clouds Over Ethiopia Stop that Nonsense for Civilisation's Sake

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 4

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Flood-lighting at New Plymouth Wellington (N.z.) Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 May 1935 · page 1

Careful preparations have been made at New Plymouth for the landing of the Tasman airmen. It will be the first international night landing…

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Landslides Follow Heavy Rain

The Sun · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 21

Caused by surface moisture, following heavy rain making the bedrock slippery, big landslides have occurred in South Gippsland, Victoria. In one case, an orchard was carried away…

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A Review of SPORT J.C. Davis' Editorial Comment Why I Publish the Referee a Nepean Vision of 1999 When Old Father Thames Is Eclipsed By Antipodean Rivalries "After a storm comes a calm."

Referee · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 13

A FASCINATING HISTORY in Australian rowing is being written. It has the Nepean as the central piece. Last week I touched on the pastoral simplicity and natural beauties of the river as the Hncst of all courses for great…

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400 Drowned in Flooded Mine Shanghai

The Labor Daily · Thursday 16 May 1935 · page 1

FOUR hundred Chinese and one Japanese were drowned by the flooding of a shaft at the Tzochwan coal…

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Night Hop Perils in Storm Broadbent Seeking Record

The Sun · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 9

ATTEMPTING a round Australia record flight on a 3 days 16 hours schedule, Pilot "Jimmy" Broadbent, who…

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Ship Partly Flooded In Attempt to Retrieve Ring. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 May 1935 · page 12

When the steamer Marella arrived to-day, passengers said that while Mrs. A. E. Wing, wife of a Darwin business man, was bathing her child, a diamond ring slipped off her…

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Shelter of an Oak. Butterflies in a Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 May 1935 · page 11

White butterflies with black-banded wings had been floating through the golden sunshine, as dainty and fragile and lovely as flower petals blown free…

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800 Entombed Men Dying Sudden Rising of Flood Waters Peiping

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 May 1935 · page 1

THERE is now no hope for the 800 miners entombed in coal mines at Tzechuan, which were flooded by a sudden rising of waters…

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Storm Shelter

The Sun · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 11

Caught in a snowstorm at Charlotte Pass, Kosciusko, two men, who can be dimly seen, sheltered in this mail box for some hours, until the arrival…

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Strong Gale in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 5

Starting suddenly and ending just as quickly, a strong gale swept Canterbury for a few hours to-day. In the Malvern district many power…

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Fierce Gale. Damage in New Zealand. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 10

A f[?]erce north-westerly gale, coming with startling suddenness, swept Canterbury for about four hours to-day. and fairly serious damage was caused in the Malvern district,…

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People Isolated Tasmanian Floods HOBART

The Sun · Tuesday 21 May 1935 · page 11

The people of Adamsfield are completely out of communication, owing to the destruction by floods of tho bridge over the Florentine River and…

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N.Z. Storms. Rain, Hail, and Snow. Wellington (N. Z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 15

A severe storm was raging in the National Park area near Lake Taupo to-night. Phenomenal thunder and lightning were experienced. Heavy snow was falling on the…

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Barque in Gale Round Cape Horn. Sails Blown Away Like Paper. LONDON, May 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 15

After rounding Cape Horn in good weather, the Finnish barque Herzogin Cecilie, which arrived at Falmouth yesterday, after a passage of 116 days from Port Lincoln, ran into a gale…

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Floodlit London at the King's Jubilee

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 7

The dome of St. Paul's Cathedral with its golden ball and cross brightly outlined against the London sky…

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London Illuminated by Floodlight

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 22 May 1935 · page 27

One of the best effects of the Silver Jubilee illuminations was obtained, as shown in the photograph, by the flood-lighting of the Victoria Memorial opposite the en[?]nce to Buckingham Palace…

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