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Floods & storms, 1935

1,160 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 58

Storm

The World's News · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 21

BURNS swayed through the blackness with a regular, unreal rhythm. Now up, now down, ever…

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Gas Masks for Dust-storms

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 36

So severe have been the dust and sand storms in some parts of the United States this season that people have been forced to use masks to protect their lungs. These are a distinct improvement on the handkerchiefs that are occasionally worn over the mouth in our own outback regions, where sand-storms are common…

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N.Z. FLOODS. Worst for Five Years. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 14

The worst floods for five years are being experienced in districts north of Auckland. All railways are disorganised, roads are blocked, and bridges have been damaged. Rain…

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Floods Delay Court Case Two Defendants Are Held Up Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 7

Floods interrupted the course of the law in the Auckland district to-day, when although 14 police witnesses and a detective arrived…

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Talking Them Into Voting Canvassers Will Flood City

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 July 1935 · page 9

AN army of canvassers will invade Fitzroy and Macquarie Wards in the next four days to whip enthusiasm into…

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Drifting Sands Dust Storms Threaten Far West Areas

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 July 1935 · page 11

IT is estimated that 10,000,000-tons of dust fell on South Australia last week as a result of a dust storm that extended to the far west of New South Wales…

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N.Z. FLOODS Marooned Farmers Rescued AUCKLAND

The Sun · Thursday 25 July 1935 · page 23

Torrential rain continues north of Auckland, and the Hikurangi swamp area is now a huge lake 10 miles long and two miles wide…

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Families Rescued From Floods in Boats Wellington (N.z.), Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 25 July 1935 · page 5

North Auckland districts are experiencing yet another flood after almost continuous rain for several days. The fine spell this morning…

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Cricket Board Sounds Its Own Death-Knell Ban on Seven Players for India a Bigger Storm Than 1912 Tarrant Asks For Review Stars Hit Back

The Labor Daily · Friday 26 July 1935 · page 1

BY its ridiculous decision disclosed yesterday, to bar seven players from touring India…

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The Presage of the Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 July 1935 · page 11

As with great gouts of blood the clouds are stained: Fast files the vanquished Day from glooming Night…

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Council Storm. Removal of German Gun. M.L.C. Criticises Ex-soldiers. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 July 1935 · page 16

At a meeting of the municipal council last night, Alderman E.E. Collins, M.L.C., criticised his colleagues on the council and the Returned Soldiers' League for what he said was…

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To Hospital by Sledge Two Miles Through Mud In Storm

The Sun · Sunday 28 July 1935 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--Suffering acutely and needing immediate surgical attention, Mrs. Bryan Rodaughan, of Stalker, was sledged…

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Hold Flooded Ship Jettisons Timber SUVA

The Sun · Monday 29 July 1935 · page 7

Timber cargo is being jettisoned from the Norwegian motorship Hoegh Trader, which is stranded on Horseshoe Reef, 65 miles north-east of…

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Mr. J. H. Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 10

Mr. Joseph Hopkinson Gale, who died at his residence. The Esplanade, Cronulla, on Sunday night, aged 74 years, had been associated with the woollen industry of this State and Victoria…

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In Squall Traffic Halts Sudden Storm

The Sun · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 7

A TERRIFIC windstorm was experienced in the Liverpool and Smithfield districts late to-day…

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A Storm In The Teapot At Botany

The Sun · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 7

THE tastes of men varied so much that the preparation of a communal pot of tea for Botany relief workers presented grave difficulties, the Town Clerk (Mr. L. R. Flack) stated at Botany Council last night…

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Hoegh Trader. Hold Flooded

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 4

To assist the efforts to refloat the stranded Norwegian motorship Hoegh Trader, part of her timber cargo has been jettisoned. Her No. 1 hold has…

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Hoegh Trader Still Fast One Hold Flooded

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 5

IT is generally thought that the Norwegian motorship, Hoegh Trader, will be difficult to tow from Horseshoe Reef, in the middle of…

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Football. Rugby Union. The Maoris v Western Districts. Heavy Rain at Bathurst. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 17

The Maori Rugby Union team will probably have its first experience on a wet field in Australia in the match here to-morros against the Western Districts, as heavy rain fell to-day. The team…

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'Plane Was in Danger Cyclone Strikes Mascot Aerodrome

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 July 1935 · page 8

There was a wild rush to return aeroplanes to their respective hangars at Mascot yesterday afternoon when a wind with cyclonic velocity…

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