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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 68

Cyclonic Storm. Rough Seas. Torrential Rain Flood Warning. Ships and Air Services Delayed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 11

The Dutch steamer Nieuw Holland suffered minor damage, and was hove-to for several hours, other ships were delayed, air services were…

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Flood Warnings Issued Coastal Rivers Rising Torrential Rain In Parts High Seas

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 1

WIDESPREAD rain was again reported from all portions of the State yesterday. On the North Coast deluges have been…

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Canadian Flier Wrecked by Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 June 1937 · page 3

A WASHOUT on the main line of the Canadian National railways near Ingersoll, Ontario, caused this wreek of the Chicago-Montreal flier, resulting in the loss of four lives. Rushing to the scene, a doctor was drowned when his ear was caught in the raging flood. The picture shows the derailed flier and…

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Hope of Fine Weather. Cyclone Moving East. Flood Danger Passing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1937 · page 16

As the cyclonic disturbance, which had been active along the New South Wales coast since the week-end, moved eastward yesterday, fine weather…

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The Children's Corner The Storm King

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 June 1937 · page 20

THE storm king rides the western sky. His purple cloak a-flying! With fanfare's roar and rockets high…

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Barron Falls to be Floodlit

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 9 June 1937 · page 47

IN order to make the Barron Falls more attractive to tourists there is a probability that they will be electrically illuminated from the Barron Falls…

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Flood Danger Passing

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 June 1937 · page 6

FLOOD dangers on the North Coast have diminished owing to the eastward movement of the cyclonic depression which was centred over…

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Pea Soup Provided by Gale Captain Of Ship Tells Stormy Trip

The Labor Daily · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 11

HOW a gale, which struck the sailing ship Cap Pilar shortly after her departure from South Africa to brave the desolate wastes of the…

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£80 Award Made to Father Son Fatally Injured During Storm

The Sun · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 12

William Hutchings, of Elizabeth- street, Sydney, aged 70, was awarded £80 by the Workers' Compensation Commission to- day, following the…

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Learned Fodder Storage Lesson from Big Flood

The Land · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 11

DETERMINED to have a sufficiency of fodder if floods should ever again sweep over his farmlands on the flats of the Kiah River,…

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Feeding Dairy Cows. Reserves for Drought and Flood. South Coast[?] Farmers' Efforts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 9

NOWRA, Thursday.—The Tuross River is often called treacherous, and this year it carned this reputation. Early in March, it flooded its banks, spread over the bordering…

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Cyclone Death Compensation

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 June 1937 · page 4

When a cyclonic disturbance struck Botany last January, John Charles Hutchings was killed by lightning. At the Workers' Compensation…

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Sportsman of the Week Harry Sunderland, Storm Centre Of Rugby League

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 June 1937 · page 19

NO man has done so much for Rugby League in Queensland as Harry Sunderland, secretary of the Queensland Rugby League almost since its inception. He is the father of the game there…

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Thunderstorm Broke Over Great Tattoo

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 June 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--A violent thunderstorm broke at the beginning of the Coronation searchlight tattoo at Aldershot, one of the great attractions for…

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Extra Rates for Flood Lights Traders' Proposal To Newtown Council

The Sun · Wednesday 16 June 1937 · page 6

A report of a conference between three Newtown aldermen and three members of the local Chamber of Commerce about the proposed…

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Delayed by Gale

The Sun · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 1

The liner Montoro, which is bringing women and children refugees from Rabaul, is not expected to berth in Sydney till late to-morrow night…

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Foreign Flooding of U.K. Egg Market

The Land · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 14

A CCORDING to the Premier (Mr. Stevens) quality, packing and grading of Australian eggs for shipment overseas have…

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Soccer Trial Match Abandoned Heavy Rain Made Play Impossible

The Sun · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 6

WHEN each side in the trial game at Arlington between New South Wales and The Rest had scored one goal the match was abandoned on account of the state of the ground. It was then 4.20 p.m…

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Bright Polo Despite Heavy, Rain. Vychan and Cobbitty in Final

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 21

Vychan and Cobbitty will meet in the final of the R. M. Pitt Memorial Cup at the Kyeemagh polo ground, North Brighton[?] this afternoon. They won that right yesterday by…

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Heavy Rain in Sydney. One Inch Since Thursday. Fine Week-end Predicted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 June 1937 · page 17

Rain fell yesterday along the coast from Newcastle to the southern border, but the falls were patchy. The heaviest rain occurred in Sydney, where a heavy…

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