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Floods & storms, 1936

1,260 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 63

Homebush and Beef Market Flooded With Unsuitable Young Stock a Paying Proposition with Vealer

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 October 1936 · page 6

HOMEBUSH cattle market is oversupplied, and prices have fallen rapidly, yet the number of cattle coming forward shows no signs of slackening, though sellers munt anticipate low prices. Fear of a dry spell seems the only explanation…

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Storm Abating. Battered Ships Come Home. LONDON, Oct. 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 October 1936 · page 13

The is abating in England and Europe, but more deaths are still being reported. Two seamen were lost from trawlers on the west coast of England…

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Cyclone Wrecks Melbourne Suburb 70-Mile Gale Follows 30ft. Waterspout: Wide Damage MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 October 1936 · page 1

A TERRIFIC cyclone and waterspout struck Cheltenham, an outer suburb, late this afternoon, wrecking buildings and hurling debris two miles. For three minutes terrified people in an area half a mile wide…

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Violent Storm. Strikes Melbourne Suburb. Many People Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 October 1936 · page 18

A boy was critically injured and many persons were cut and bruised when a cyclone struck the suburb of Cheltenham this afternoon…

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Showers & Gale Predicted Warning to Owners of Small Craft

The Sun · Sunday 1 November 1936 · page 3

Showers, with a strong wind reaching gale force, is the weather forecast for to-day by the State Meteorologist (Mr. Mares)…

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Burwood Club Rink Floodlit

Truth · Sunday 1 November 1936 · page 12

THE Burwood Bowling Club is equipping [?] rinks for night play Six 1500-watt lamps in Duoflex (Benjamin) floodlights are being erected on 25ft steel poles…

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Cyclone Strikes Melbourne Suburb

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 November 1936 · page 7

A CYCLONE WHICH struck the suburb of Cheltenham, outside Melbourne, on Friday afternoon, wrecked buildings, stripped trees, and terrified hundreds of people. The photograph shows the kitchen of an unroofed house, littered with bricks and roofing materials…

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Damage by Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 November 1936 · page 4

HOBART, Tuesday.--A gale, which attained a speed of nearly 50 miles an hour, caused considerable damage in Hobart and suburbs last night and…

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Cyclone Hits Hobart Hobart

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 November 1936 · page 7

A gale, which attained a velocity of almost 50 miles an hour, caused considerable damage in Hobart and suburbs during last night and…

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Steelworks Flooded. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 November 1936 · page 13

A 12-inch salt water main burst at Port Kembla Steelworks to-day and inundated the floors of the 10-inch and 36-inch mills, stopping both units for nearly an hour. The rush…

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Rumanian Floods. Bodies Swept From Cemeteries. BUCHAREST, Nov. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 November 1936 · page 16

While floods in north-west Rumania swept coffins and corpses from cemeteries through the streets of Targu-Jiu and Craiova, which are the centre of scenes of dreary desolation,…

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Heads Down In "Honors" Quest City Flooded By Big Tide

The Sun · Thursday 5 November 1936 · page 48

CONCENTRATION.--Heads down, and flying pens in quest of "Honors" at the Leaving Certificate Examination at Sydney High School…

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Want Memorial To Be Floodlit

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 November 1936 · page 11

ONE of the projects very near the hearts of members of the Sailors and Soldiers' Mothers, Wives, and Widows' Association of New South Wales…

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Collision With Whale Broke Propeller Crippled Ship in Gale Officers' Graphic Story of Three Days' Battle

The Sun · Friday 6 November 1936 · page 11

WITH her propeller and rudder damaged as the result of striking a whale, the Jevington Court had an anxious three…

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Foreign Goods. "New Guinea Flooded."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 November 1936 · page 12

Mr. A. J. Marshall, a Sydney zoologist, who returned by the Macdhul yesterday after having spent a year in the interior of New Guinea, drew attention to the lack of British goods…

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Smack Wrecked in Bass Strait Gale. Flinders Island

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 November 1936 · page 22

The auxiliary fishing smack [?] wrecked on the rocks between Vansitaart Island and Puncheon Head Island, near Flinders Island, in Bass Strait, at 21 a.m. on…

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Terror In A Storm

The Sun · Sunday 8 November 1936 · page 3

A JAGGED, zig-zag spear of leaping fire darted In a fiery streak across the black, turbulent heavens above, and for an Instant…

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Confetti Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 November 1936 · page 1

MISS MARY MOUTZOURIS, of Goulburn, who was married to Mr. Strati Loupis, of Wellington (N.S.W.), at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Dowling Street, yesterday, faced a storm of confetti as they left the church…

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Franco's Forces Storm Madrid Fighting In Streets Tanks Are Rushed to Attack Britons Safe Madrid

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 November 1936 · page 1

FOLLOWING the transfer of the seat of government yesterday from Madrid to Valencia, General Franco's troops now hold all the key points to the city of Madrid and…

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The Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 November 1936 · page 23

When the tall green trees are meaning. And their stout brown limbs are groaning. And the wintry wind is whist[?]ing round the house; When no si[?]ry moon is showing…

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