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Floods & storms, 1935

1,160 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 58

Vic. Flood Fund

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 6

Additional amounts received by the Lord Mayor for the Victorian flood fund are: Amount previously acknowledged. £[?]76 126, William Arnott. Ltd., £5; Australian…

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Swam 1000 Sheep Through Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 7

GRAMBLING against the threatening odds of fast-running flood Waters, the McIntosh brothers, of Mobinbry Station, 20 miles from…

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Schoolboy Storms The Tennis Heights

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1935 · page 2

ON the hardcourts of the Illawarra Lawn Tennis Association, in Chapelstreet, Rochdale, a boy in short…

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Eddie Gilbert Again Cricket Storm-centre Does He Throw? Victorians Revive Old Controversy

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Not since November, 1931, when Gilbert dismissed Brad- man for a "duck" in Brisbane…

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Twice Flooded

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 1

Mr. E. C. Belz, of Balaclava-road, Eastwood, reported to Eastwood Council at last-meeting that his property had been twice flooded in a week through…

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Falling Flood Waters Boggabilla Train Through

The Sun · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 7

"IT has been the worst flood in 30 years, but we are getting back to normal now," Boggabilla…

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Rivers Below Flood Levels

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 6

According to a bulletin issued by the Weather Bureau yesterday, the Macintyre River at 9 a.m. on Saturday bad fallen considerably below…

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Hold Flooded

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 4

AUCKLAND, N.Z., Sunday.--An extraordinary mistake occurred aboard the Waipawa, loading meat for London. A hose to fill the fresh…

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Trace Storms Cathode Ray Way MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 11

Mr. R. W. BOSWELL, B.Sc., and W. J. Wark, M.Sc., in a paper told the Science Congress to-day that all…

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Kelso Knocked Out by Brown's Hammer Blows Over in Fifth Wrong Side of the Ropes a Crashing Right American's Storm Of Punches Real Fighter

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 3

WITH a smashing right hand that crashed into the jaw of ex-lightweiuht champion, Jimmy Kelso, Willard Brown, of…

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The Floods. Isolated Boggabilla Reached by Train. First Time for a Week

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 9

Taking over an hour to traverse one section of seven miles the train from Moree managed to reach Boggabilla yesterday…

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Trapped in Car Creek Flood How Family Escaped Rockhampton

The Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 13

TRAPPED in a motor car when floodwaters in Blackwater Creek came down suddenly, J. Smith and family, of Emerald, had a narrow escape from drowning…

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Gallant Aboriginal In Flood Drama Gave Life to Save Old Man in Treetops Crowds Watched Mt. Isa

The Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 9

HUNDREDS of men, women and children of Camooweal yesterday watched a courageous aboriginal swim…

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Work Quest Sisters On Track in Storm Leeton

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 18

Four sisters whose ages range from seventeen to twenty-six, arrived here with swags on their backs, having tramped across country from Orange,…

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Flood Destruction in the Murrurundi District

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 48

On the afternoon of the 14th January, owing to a dam breaking as the result of the excessive rainfall, a wall of water some 20ft in height swept down upon Blandford, near Murrurundi, and caused immense damage to buildings, fences, and crops. Trees 30ft high and over were torn out by the roots and carried away by the raging torrent. The…

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A Plague Town Invaded Mosquitoes Follow Floods

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 15

A PLAGUE of big mosquitoes, bred in the waters still lying around the town after the Maclntyre…

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Floodlighting Wellington Park

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 3

A suggestion that consideration should be given to the question of floodlighting Wellington Park was made by the town clerk (Mr…

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Insect Pests Affect Stock After Floods. GOONDIWINDI

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 12

Now that the flooded rivers and creeks are receding, allowing some of the graders in the Goondiwindi district to get to town to replenish supplies, sandflies and mosquitoes…

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B.C. DELUGE Schools Closed VANCOUVER

The Sun · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 1

British Columbia's railway services and communication lines are still interrupted. Heavy snow and rain continue on…

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Launch in Gale. Blown to Barrenjoey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 12

Mr. J. Stewart, of Watson's Bay, his son Harold, and a companion, had an unenviable experience when their 22ft launch Sylph was caught in a southerly gale on Wednesday when…

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