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Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 68

More Rain Is Forecast Cyclone Heading For New Zealand

The Sun · Monday 30 August 1937 · page 1

The rain which fell over the State during the week-end was only a preliminary to more rain during the next 48 hours, Mr. Mares said…

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Home-made 'Plane. Crash in Gale. Young Pilot Killed. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 August 1937 · page 9

Patrick Joseph Perry, 22, of Acland Street, St. Kilda, was killed instantly at Fishermen's Bend to-day, when a small, home-made aeroplane which…

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Gale Strikes Awatea Auckland

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 August 1937 · page 10

The Awatea, from Sydney, is running through a heavy gale and will be late arriving to-night…

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Rode Out Gale Radio As Guide Awatea Meets Big Seas Auckland

The Sun · Tuesday 31 August 1937 · page 7

DELAYED by terrific seas, 40 feet high, and hampered by poor visibility, rain squalls and cyclonic…

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2d . Cut in Lighting Charges Result Of Storm Of Complaints County Cncl

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 August 1937 · page 10

SYDNEY County Council yesterday answered the widespread protest which has come from thousands of consumers on the commercial rate in…

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To Lower Burrinjuck Dam CUT 10 TO 15 Feet From Top, Says Premier Lessen Risk of Floods, Experts Report

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 August 1937 · page 2

FROM 10 to 15 feet is to be taken off the top of Burrinjuck Dam as a measure to reduce the risks of flood. This was decided yesterday by Cabinet, which, for most of the sitting, discussed experts' reports on the…

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Steel Twisted: Awatea in Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 September 1937 · page 9

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--The Awatea, which reached here at 2 a.m. from Sydney, received a terrific buffeting from mountainous seas…

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Awatea in Gale. Mountainous Seas. Woman Passenger Injured. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1937 · page 21

Making slow headway against mountainous seas, the Awatea arrived at Auckland a day late to-day. A woman passenger injured an arm when…

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Heavy Rain in West Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 9

Heavy rain fell throughout the mid-western district to-day. At Bathuret 65 points were recorded, while good falls were also reported…

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Big Flood Damage Heavy Rain In S.A ADELAIDE

The Sun · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 3

THE worst floods for nearly 50 years are causing heavy damage over the lower northern part of South…

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Spring Here with Storms

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 September 1937 · page 2

Storms of dust, rain, and wind swept New South Wales yesterday --officially the first day of Spring. Moree experienced one of the heaviest…

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Gale Hits City

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 1

INCREASING in velocity since late last night, a gale struck Sydney early this morning. when the weather was the coldest that the…

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Loyalists Storm Fascist Positions

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 1

MADRID, Sept. 1. —Taking many prisoners and much war material, government forces continue to Continued on page 4, col. 6…

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Airliners Delayed By 70-Mile Gale

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 3

Airliners battled against a 70 m.p.h. north-westerly wind at times yesterday, but most services were able to maintain their schedules…

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Amazing Golf in Gale Yon Nida 71 and 73 in "Open" Practice Greens Buried Under Sand

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 26

N. VON NIDA played amazing golf in yesterday's Open Championship practice games at the Australian Golf Club, with…

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Bells Toll a Warning of Floods Residents' Early Morn Rush Adelaide

The Sun · Friday 3 September 1937 · page 1

WARNED by the pealing of church bells, about 35 Port Wakefield residents evacuated their homes when…

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Flight From. Floods. Worst in 50 YEARS. Homes Damaged in South Australia. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 17

Floods which inundated northern districts yesterday, reached Port Wakefield early this morning, when the River Wakefield overflowed, and flood waters…

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Floods Recede in S.A. Conditions Back To Normal ADELAIDE

The Sun · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 3

Floodwaters are receding throughout the lower north agricultural country, which was inundated following the heaviest rainstorm for many…

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Flood Havoc in S.a.: Bells Warn Town Water 3 Ft. Deep in Streets: Miles of Land Under Silt Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 September 1937 · page 2

CHURCH-BELLS pealing at 3 a.m. today warned residents of Port Wakefield, at the head of St. Vincent Gulf, of the worst flood in the district for 50 years. Floods began in the northern…

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Record to Awatea Through Gales 22 Minutes Taken Off Time

The Sun · Monday 6 September 1937 · page 1

AFTER fighting her way through westerly gales the Union liner Awatea, which reached Sydney…

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