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Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 68

Grant for Cyclone Victims Darwin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 10

The Administrator announces that a direct monetary gift of £150 will be made to those in poor circumstances who suffered losses in the cyclone…

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Pent-up Lake Bursts Flood And Glacier Raze Valley OSLO

The Sun · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 5

Bursting its bonds of ice to-day, a great lake formed by a glacier at the head of Simo Valley roared down into Hardanger Fjord and laid the…

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23 Killed in New York Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Twenty-three people wore killed in two violent electrical storms that swept over New York today…

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Shanghai Is Now Storm-centre 32 Jap. Warships on Spot Guns Trained On Settlement China Firm Shanghai

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 7

WITH the arrival of the Japanese Third Fleet off Woosung, eight miles from the International Settlement at Shanghai, and at the mouth…

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A Storm

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 August 1937 · page 9

Surrounding the little white cottages, and stretching for miles around the little fishing village by the seashore. lay a haze. The sky was blue,…

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Storms Cause Floodings Deluge in London London

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 5

LONDON'S spell of dry weather, with high temperatures came to a sudden end in thunderstorms which resulted in severe flooding in…

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Dry Spell Broken. Heavy Rain at Wentworth. Hope Revived in Inland Areas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 10

The first sign that a substantial rain-producing disturbance was advancing across New South Wales from the westward occurred last…

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British Labor Storm Clouds on Rearmament London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 3

THE recent decision of the British Parliamentary Labor Party not to oppose the rearmament programme will be attacked at the 69th meeting of the Trade Union Congress at Norwich next month…

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Searching Over Pole For Lost Plane Silence After Telling of Fog, Ice, Gale, Motor Failure Moscow

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 3

SINCE they reported that one of their four motors had stopped, nothing has been heard from the Soviet fliers who set out from Moscow to fly to San Francisco over the North Pole,…

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Flooding in London. Traffic Held Up. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Aug. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 10

London's spell of dry weather, with high temperatures, came to a sudden end on Friday with thunderstorms, which resulted in severe flooding in…

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Tropical Rain Floods Areas of London

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday.--Rain which fell with tropical violence after thunderstorms caused spectacular flooding in London and district at the weekend…

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Storm Over Newnes Oil Lang Attacks Concessions to Private Firm Minister Details Terms of 20-Year Agreement

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 August 1937 · page 2

THE Newnes Shale Oil Agreement Bill, which passed the first rending stage in the Legislative Assembly last night, met with a stormy reception. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Lang) described…

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American Skiers Run in Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 August 1937 · page 2

MT. HOTHAM, Wednesday.--Two American University skiers. Steve Bradley and Dick Durrance, arrived today at 6 p.m., having left St. Bernard at 3 p.m…

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Canowindra Pioneer a Flood Crossing on Her Wedding Day

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 19 August 1937 · page 15

MRS. MARGARET GALVIN, who is believed to be the oldest living native of Canowindra, recently celebrated her 69th birthday at the home of her…

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Flood Waters and Dam

The Propeller · Thursday 19 August 1937 · page 8

A reply has been received by the Sutherland Shire Council from the Water, and Sewerage Board to a complaint that recent flood waters…

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Cyclone at Week-end, Says Mares

The Sun · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY'S week-end will be unpleasant, according to Mr. Mares. A cyclonic disturbance is sweeping…

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“Arrest Lenin” Flood Of Lies Loosed BRITISH “ADVICE''(Continued from Last Issue) Twenty Years Ago in Russia

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 2

On July 17 the Provisional government had instructed the Commander of the Petrograd Military Area, General…

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Cyclone Off Coast

The Sun · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 3

The Weather Bureau to-day issued the following special ocean forecast: A severe cyclone is centred about 150 miles east of Jervis Bay…

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Heavy Rain Is Likely Cold and Strong S. to W. Winds Barometer 29.85 Indicator Unsettled

The Sun · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 6

City Forecast.--Cloudy and unsettled, with further rain; heavy showers probable; cool to cold and misty; fresh to strong W. to S. winds, reaching gale…

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Dust Storms. Aerial Expedition Delayed. Farina (S.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 11

Duststorms in the interior will probably delay the expedition, and it is doubtful whether we can reach Sydney to-morrow, as we hoped…

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