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Floods & storms, 1937

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Romance GALE—CARTER

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 27

AN opal and pearl necklet, worn previously by her mother on her wedding day, completed the toilette of Audre Carter, second…

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Fifth Death in N.Z. Gale Damage Increased by Rain and Floods Auckland

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 7

A young yachtsman who was drowned at Whangarei makes the fifth victim of the gales. Four men were drowned through the…

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Cyclone at Cessnock Much Damage To Property CESSNOCK, Saturday. CESSNOCK

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 1

THEIR homes unroofed, many being wrecked, by a howling cyclone, and in danger of injury from flying iron, residents of…

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Floods in U.S. Many Centres Suffer CHICAGO

Truth · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 16

HUNDREDS of dwellers in the lowlands of the Middle West have fled before the steady advance of flood waters, resulting…

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People Flee From Floods in U.S.A. CHICAGO

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1937 · page 5

Hundreds of people living on low lands in the middle west have fled before the steady advance of flood waters as the…

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Cyclone's, Havoc. Buildings Wrecked. Fierce Storm Strikes Township. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 9

A cyclone which struck the mining township of Kearsley, near Cessnock, about 7 o'clock last night, destroyed two small churches, moved a third from its…

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Unsettled Weather. Further Storms Likely

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 9

Storms also occurred during the week-end at Goulb[?]n, Port Stephens, and Jervis Bay. The lightning and thunder were seveie in all cases, but the rainfall light. Goulburn secured…

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Victim of Storm Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 1

The only storm victim on the coalfields was James Hamilton, 54 of Kitchener. He was in his home when a window, crashing in on him…

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Iron Swept Away in Storm Maitland

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 1

Maitland and Kurri Kurri missed the full force of the storm which caused damage in the Cessnock district on Saturday night. At East…

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Heat Wave, Cold Snap and City Fog Thunder And Gales May Add To Mixture Soaring Humidity

The Sun · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 10

A phenomenal mid-day twilight to-day brought shipping to a standstill. A curious sea fog drifted into the harbor and shrouded the coast line. In a day of freak weather heat in the west…

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Flood Menace. America's Middle West. CHICAGO. Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 9

Hundreds of dwellers in the low lands of the m[?]le-west fied before the steady advance of the flood waters resulting from one of the rainiest and mildest winters in history…

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Hospital Sisters Flee From Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 5

DARWIN, Sunday. -- In a special radiophone interview yesterday, Sisters Langham and Stewart, of the Wimmera Australian Inland Mission,…

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Fierce Storm at Canberra. Wireless Masts Shattered by Lightning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 12

After a day of sultry heat a fierce thunderstorm broke over Canberra at about 9 o'clock last night. At the height of the storm the masts of the wireless…

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More Rains Raise Floods Damage In Mid-West States CHICAGO

The Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 15

Continued rain has brought further threats to the flooded areas of the Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri…

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Duststorm and Floods in S.A. ADELAIDE

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 5

Rain caused floods in several northern areas. Several washaways were reported at Quorn. The commercial Nation planes carrying mails to…

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Small Steamer Buffeted by Gales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 18

The small Dutch cargo steamer Slberoet, which arrived from New Zealand ports yesterday, reported encountering a succession of storms in the course of her Tasman crossing. As the vessel was lightly…

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Channel Gale Delays Ships

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday.--Many vessels sought shelter yesterday when a severe gale brought up big seas in the English Channel…

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Gale Fear in Timber "Drive"

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 7

GLOUCESTER, Tuesday.--Anxious eyes are watching the mountain side at Craven Plateau, where thousands of trees have been partly cut for a…

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English Gale Damage London

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 5

During yesterday's gale in the English Channel, heavy seas, which pounded coast defence works and the promenades of pleasure resorts, drove…

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Mail Plane in Storm. Landing at Wagga. WAGGA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 13

The Minister for Trade Treaties (Sir Henry Gullett) was a passenger on the Melbourne to Sydney mail 'plane which was forced down at Wagga at 7.15 this…

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