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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 68

Risked His Life in Flooded River Champion's Papuan Expedition; Courageous Native

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 April 1937 · page 7

IN this second instalment of Ivan Champion's report on his recent expedition in Papua, he describes how the Hegigio River ran in flood. "The Hegigio had defeated us…

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Mrs. Bonney Driven Back by Storms. Landing on Island. SINGAPORE, April 18

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 April 1937 · page 9

Mrs. Harry Bonney, who is flying to Capetown, was unable to reach Singapore yesterday owing to bad weather. She turned back and landed…

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Stewart, Political Storm-centre Cabinet to Discuss To-morrow Pressure On Government From Members CANBERRA

The Sun · Monday 19 April 1937 · page 10

KEEN interest has been taken in Canberra in the effort of Sir Frederick Stewart to rouse the Government to action in instituting national insurance and giving a lead toward a shorter working week in Australia. His threat…

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Burned Fittings in Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 7

AS the British freighter Lindenbank discharged her cargo of bitumen at Balmain yesterday, a sad-eyed ship's…

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Tasman Gale. H.M.A.S. Sydney Hove-to. New Zealand Cyclone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 12

Wireless advice was received in Sydney last night that the cruiser H.M.A.S. Sydney, which was returning to Sydney with two damaged…

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Plane Tips on Nose in Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 7

Landing at Bermagui yesterday morning, Adastra Airways' Fox Moth tipped on to its nose in a 40-mile an hour gale…

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Flooding Danger

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 3

Mr. F. Bovington, of Auburn-road, Auburn, informed the council this week that hundreds of loads of filling placed in an allotment, adjoining his land had caused…

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Briseis Consolidated. Heavy Cost of Mine Flood

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 13

Briseis Consolidated, N.L. Tasmania, shows proceeds of tin at £11,656 for the year ended December 31, and an expenditure and development and other charges amounted to £31,140,…

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Grand Scale Floodlighting

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 7

An extensive scheme of floodlighting on a scale never previously attempted, will be arranged for the Coronation celebrations in Sydney…

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Men of Sydney Forty Years Of Calm and Storm In Accountancy

The Sun · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 8

When we told Mr. Fred Smith that he would be put into this gallery of Sydney portraits, he demurred. He said that he was only a city…

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On the Land Caterpillar Plague. Aftermath of the Floods

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 9

Coraki farmers living in areas which were submerged in the recent floods are now experlencir? trouble with cutworms. The appearance of the pest in plague numbers is…

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Rain Causes Floods; City and Suburbs When Sea "Boiled" Cars Stranded in Streets

The Sun · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 9

HEAVY rain shortly before 1 p.m. to- day caused flooding in parts of the city and some suburbs. Water…

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Storm Floods Factories Law Courts Design Competition

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 2

FIVE assessors were appointed by Cabinet yesterday to prepare architects' graphs and particulars for the…

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Awatea Delayed. Fierce Tasman Gale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 17

Captain Arthur Davey, of the liner Awatea, advised the Union S.S. Co. by wireless yesterday that the vessel was fighting a fierce gale on her voyage from Auckland. It had…

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Storm in City. Local Flooding. Telephones Cut Off

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 17

Heavy rain fell in Sydney yesterday, and, at 10 o'clock last night, almost two inches had been registered at the Weather Bureau. A storm occurred…

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Flood of Ginger Beer Feast For The Youngsters

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 14

OCEANS of ginger beer and mountains of cake; the plunder of orchards: the air heavy with scent of steaming pies and a horizon bounded by a wall of sandwiches. It is a…

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City Deluged by Rain 400,000 Tons in the Day Houses & Shops Flooded Hail Also

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 April 1937 · page 1

THE metropolitan area was deluged by rain yesterday, 164 points -- equal to 400,000 tons -- sweeping down on the…

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Storm-tossed Awatea's Tasman Crossing

Truth · Sunday 25 April 1937 · page 12

STORM-TOSSED in the worst storm on the Tasman that she has experienced, the Union Company's crack liner Awatea…

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Not Even Cracked Porthole In Tasman Gale Awatea's Trip in Weather

The Sun · Sunday 25 April 1937 · page 1

Fighting gales all the way from Auckland, the U.S.S. Co. liner Awatea arrived at Sydney yesterday afternoon…

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Awatea in Gale Behaves Splendidly In Tasman Storm

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 26 April 1937 · page 4

The Union Steamship Company's trans-Tasman liner Awatea arrived at Sydney shortly before midday on Saturday, after fighting a severe…

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