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Floods & storms, 1936

1,260 stories in Sydney's papers · page 48 of 63

Heavy Rain In Northern Territory

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 7

DARWIN, Thursday.--In the last 24 hours good general rain has fallen over the Northern Territory. The heaviness of the rain may be…

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Storm at Lithgow. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 8

Shopkeepers and housewives this morning completed the mopping-up and cleaning of their premises, which were invaded by water late yesterday afternoon and last night. The…

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Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan, Mr. Justice Street, and Mr. Justice Bavin.) a Flooded Farm. Campisi v Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 September 1936 · page 7

The Court dismissed with costs a motion to enter a verdict for the defendant, the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission, or to direct a new trial in an action in which the…

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4000 American Coastguards on Watch in Storm New York

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 September 1936 · page 3

THOUSANDS of people are being compelled by the most severe tropical hurricane of the season to evacuate low-lying beach towns along the coasts of North and South Carolina and Virginia…

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Fears of Big Cyclone Atlantic Coast of America Ships Battling With Heavy Seas Navy Ready New York

The Labor Daily · Saturday 19 September 1936 · page 1

A HURRICANE, stated to have the widest path ever known in the history of cyclonic disturbances, is bearing down…

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Hailstones Remain After 60 Hours Legacy of Goonengerry Cyclone Mullumbimby

The Sun · Sunday 20 September 1936 · page 19

Stan Neath last night brought to Mullumbimby a quantity of hailstone which had lain in a secluded spot at Goonengerry since last…

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Storm Brewing, but Not the Weather Secret Milk Rebates Bribery Allegations Made At Inquiry

Truth · Sunday 20 September 1936 · page 21

THERE will be a storm at Tuesday night's meeting of the Milk Vendors' Association because of evidence given at the Milk Investigation last week. It was sworn that the Dairy Farmers' Co. was continuing a practice of…

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Atlantic Gale. Widespread Ruin. 54 Believed to Be Dead. New York, Sept. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 September 1936 · page 10

Fifty-four persons are believed to have been killed by a 75-mile-an-hour hurricane which swept the Atlantic seaboard for 1000 miles from Cape Fear,…

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Gale Aided Zeppelin

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 September 1936 · page 3

NEW YORK, Monday. -- The hurricane which spread ruin over hundreds of miles of the Atlantic seaboard of the United States, assisted the…

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St. Peter's Birds. Romance of Storm Petrels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 September 1936 · page 21

It was nearly half an hour after sunset when, looking over the bows of a ship well out in Bass Strait, I detected a small dark form, like a moth astray, skimming close to…

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Warm Day, Then Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 2

Fine, warm weather was experienced over most of New South Wales yesterday. The maximum temperature was 79.4 at Sydney, ranging up to 88 at…

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Botany Storm Channel Covering

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 4

An expenditure of £14,000 which would result in a increase in rates would be necessary to cover an open stormwater channel at…

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FLOODED Rebels Caught Dam Opened London

The Sun · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 1

THE opening of the dam on the Alberche River has resulted in a great setback to the rebel advance…

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The Growth of the Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 September 1936 · page 12

Professor R. B. Mowat, who publishes, in "Europe in Crisis," a diary, with occasional comment, of the critical events in European history which led up to, and followed the…

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Further Stampede From League! Spanish Delegate Resented Latin-Americans Talk Of Murders Made Flood Geneva

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 September 1936 · page 1

A FURTHER stampede from Geneva threatens to-day as the Latin-American delegates have intimated their intention…

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Coming Of The Storm

The Sun · Sunday 27 September 1936 · page 3

AN eerie silence reigned! The approaching storm seemed to hesitate in its movements. Then the clouds scurried across the sky…

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In Flood of Fines Traffic Courts Cannot Cope With Rush 18,466 Cases So Far This Year

The Sun · Sunday 27 September 1936 · page 10

Three magistrates are still sitting every day at the Water Police Court vainly trying to keep pace with the flow of traffic prosecutions from the Metropolitan area. Since January 1. 18.466 cases have been dealt with at this Court…

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Illicit Pigs. Nazi Storm Troops' Discovery. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON, Sept. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 September 1936 · page 9

The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" reports: "The fat pig is a relatively scarce and precious animal in Germany, and its course from the farm to the market is…

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Awatea in Gale. Return Trip to Auckland. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 11

After experiencing a strong gale off the coast last night, the new trans-Tasman liner Awatea arrived at 8 o'clock this morning, according to schedule Captain Davey said that…

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Fire, Flood, Snow Take Toll Of Life San Francisco

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 September 1936 · page 3

ALTHOUGH the high wind has died down, the 52 fires burning through 400,000 acres of forest land in south-western Oregon are still being fought by 5000 volunteer beaters to bring them under control…

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