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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 68

N. Z. Boy's Prank in Gale Flashed Messages From Wharf AUCKLAND

The Sun · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 3

A 16 -year -old boy who flashed S. O. S. signals from the end of the long wharf at Walwera during the north -easterly gale caused officials…

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Dust Storm in Sydney Fine Weather Likely for To-day

The Labor Daily · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 10

A 40-MILE-AN-HOUR westerly wind brought an inland duststorm to the city yesterday. The dust hung in thick brown palls. obscuring…

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In Grip of Storm. Helpless Ship. Water Gaining in Hold. Race to Answer S.O.S. HONOLULU, March 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 7

Ships over a wide area of the north-western Pacific are racing to the aid of the leaking and helpless American freighter, Volunteer…

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Five Days on Platform Hunter Waits For Floods To Dry DARWIN

The Sun · Monday 29 March 1937 · page 3

Far away in Arnhem Land, near the mouth of the South Alligator River, Mr. Tom Cole, a buffalo -hunter is spending a strange Easter…

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Yacht Fought Storms Rough Trip From Rockhampton

The Sun · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 12

Having weathered several storms, the gaff-rigged auxiliary yacht. Trade Wind, arrived in Sydney this afternoon, seven days out from…

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Coronation Greys in Training English Floods and Blizzard

The Sun · Tuesday 30 March 1937 · page 20

THE FAMOUS Windsor Greys, which will draw the Royal coach at the Coronation, being trained over the route of the procession in London. FLOOD water pouring over the main road to London, near Ely,…

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Storm Damage in Queensland—Goods Train Wrecked Near Bundaberg

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 37

WHERE THE TRAIN WAS DERAILED. STORM RAIN HAD UNDERMINED THE TRACK. THE ENGINE AND A DOZEN TRUCKS WERE WRECKED. ONLY THE GUARD'S VAN (WHICH HAD PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION) REMAINED ON THE LINE. A cyclonic storm—with heavy rain and wind—raged through Queensland recently. On the Mount Perry line, a branch railway from Bundaberg, a goods train was wrecked owing to the line being undermined by storm rain…

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Bound for Kobe. Freighter Weathers Storm. San Francisco, March 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 13

The Empress of Canada sent a wireless message yesterday stating that the American freighter Volunteer was proceeding to Kobe under her own power…

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Storm at Group 18 MEETING Competitions Now In Two Zones Saves Travel Wagga

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 2

ANNUAL meeting of Group 18, held at Holbrook, was the stormiest in the history of the group. Shortly after the start, the…

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Behind The Cables Sea of Strife for Ages Italy Arouses Another Storm on Mediterranean

The World's News · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 6

FOR so long now has Britain rested in the security of the intensely fortified island of Malta and of Gibraltar, that…

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Flood of Insurance Coupons

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 2

APPLICATIONS for the Daily Telegraph Free Insurance scheme poured in yesterday in increased volume…

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The Darwin Cyclone: Damage to Parish Buildings

The Catholic Press · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 13

During the recent cyclone which swept along the northern coast of Australia the Mission Houses of Darwin had to pay a heavy toll to this destructive and…

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Driving through Floods The R.A.C.A. Suggests Method of Procedure

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 12

BECAUSE of the recent heavy rains in the country, many tourists will probably encounter flooded roads, and unless they have had…

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Flood Waters Cover Farmlands -- U.S. Gas Disaster : Tragic Search

The Sun · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 14

A STRIKING aerial view of a train nearing a station over a track submerged by flood in Cambridgeshire. The bursting of a dyke inundated a still wider area of farmlands. Pictures on this page were received in Sydney by air mail to-day. CAMBRIDGE undergraduates carrying sacks of clay to throw into the gap in a…

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Hurricane in a Gale American Yacht's Adventure

The Sun · Saturday 3 April 1937 · page 2

Buffeted by big seas and a high wind, the American yacht. Hurricane, was damaged on the voyage from Sydney to Lord Howe Island…

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Yacht Buffeted in Gale Damaged on Voyage to Lord Howe Is

The Sun · Sunday 4 April 1937 · page 5

Buffeted by big sens and a high wind, the American yacht, Hurricane, was damaged on the voyage from Sydney to Lord Howe Island…

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Ferrier and Louden Make Cyclone Feel Like Zephyr And the Birdies Chirped Hurricane in Killara Shield Foursomes Too Busy To Worry About the Flies

Truth · Sunday 4 April 1937 · page 7

PACKED the ports yesterday, brought out the fly nets and the fly swatters, and went off to Pennant Hills to see the starters, with their hopes and clubs, get down to the job of digging for the Killara Shield Foursomes. But we…

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Sloop Wrecked in Storm. Crew Reaches Shore. Man's Journey for Help. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 9

While on a voyage up the coast to Brisbane, the Sydney-owned keel sloop Pelican, which is 30 to 40 feet in length, encountered bad weather and very…

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God Instead of Fascism Dr. Koo's Forecast For The World Out of the Storm

The Sun · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 11

CONCEPTS of a corporate state offered by Italy and of a deified race offered by Germany must some day disappear…

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