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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 68

Sixty-Mile-An-Hour Gale Fierce Westerly Causes Minor Damage in City Roof Lifted, Harbor Craft Blown Ashore

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 September 1937 · page 2

A 60-MILE-AN-HOUR south-westerly gale lashed the city yesterday. A number of craft on the Harbor broke loose from their moorings, and were driven ashore…

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Homing Cattle Dare Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 September 1937 · page 1

YARRAWONGA (Vic.), Friday.--A strong homing instinct was displayed by 23 bullocks brought here this week by goods train from Urana (N.S.W.)…

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Cyclone Victim

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 September 1937 · page 3

CROWDS INSPECTING the stern of the An Lu, which, was driven into the concrete on the Bund at Hongkong, during the recent cyclone there…

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Election Fight Looms Parties Preparing; Planes, And Flood Of Pamphlets State Members Will Be Free to Assist

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 September 1937 · page 7

PREPARATIONS for the Federal election fight are being made on the assumption that October 23 will be "the day." Aeroplanes are being booked, pamphlets prepared, and…

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Awatea in Gale. Four Hours Late. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1937 · page 12

"We are throwing no bouquets at tne Tasman Sea after this trip," said Captain Davey, when the liner Awatea arrived from Sydney four hours late to-day…

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Petrol Floods Streets. Pipe-line Bursts. Town's Night of Anxiety. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1937 · page 11

Petrol from a burst pipe-line flooded streets in Portland (Western District) in the vicinity of the Shell Company's works on Saturday night. Barricades were erected and the area…

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The Storm

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 2

The atmosphere was strained as they sat facing each other. She: "I see now why a woman is often called a bird."…

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Last Friday's Wind Storm

The Propeller · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 1

During the storm last Friday wind tore off the back verandah and part of the roof of a cottage in Croydon Street, Cronulla, owned by Mr. F. W…

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Struck by Lightning in Severe Storm

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 1

LESLIE KENNY, of Showground Street, Castle Hill, was struck by lightning while sheltering beneath a tree during a severe thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. Parramatta District Ambulance took…

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Man Struck by Lightning. Injury While Sheltering. Hills District Storm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 7

A man was paralysed in the right side and leg through being struck by lightning during a severe electrical storm in the Hills district yesterday…

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Dearth Near in Storm Man Struck By Lightning And Paralysed Fires Start

The Labor Daily · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 8

SHELTERING beneath the bough[?] of a tree from heavy rain and hall off Jones Road, Kenthurst, late yesterday, a relief worker, Leslie…

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Flood Tide Pleases His Cup Admirers Melbourne

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 21

WITH the hurdles out 50 feet from the rails on the course proper at Mentone this morning, few fast times were recorded, but some useful tasks…

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Melbourne Gallops Floodtide Shines Over Six Good Trial By Another Cup Candidate Willie Win MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 16 September 1937 · page 48

FLOODTIDE again demonstrated that he is a worthy Cup candidate by a solid six furlongs at Mentone this morning. Galloping 50ft. out from' the rails on the course…

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Endeavor I Breaks Tow-rope; Missing in Atlantic Gale New York

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 3

MR. T. O. M. SOPWITH'S yacht, Endeavour I, with a crew of 18 aboard, is missing. She was being towed to England by the motor yacht Viva…

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Change Likely on Sunday Squally Wind And Thunderstorms

The Sun · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 3

A mellowed crispness in the morning air, accompanied by brilliant sunshine, made Sydney spring conscious to-day…

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Cutter Lost in Gale; Man Missing Adelaide

The Sun · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 3

THE 28-foot cutter Rapid was wrecked off Althrope Island last night, and a member of the crew, A…

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Kangaroos in Storm. Arawa Delayed. Pearce's Grand Recovery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 21

The Arawa suffered a severe buffeting in the last 24 hours in the Atlantic gale, large waves carrying away anything loose on the decks. The captain did not appear at dinner[?]…

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Fears for Missing Airplane Seen Off Course In Dust Storm Vain Search

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 1

GRAVE fears are entertained for the safety of a Puss Moth aeroplane piloted by D. Saville,which left Melbourne yesterday morning…

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The Nerve Of Astronomer Gale! Harvard Won't Have His Comet American Sneers At Australian Discovery

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 5

WHEN Walter F. Gale, eminent Australian astronomer, aimed his telescope at a faint smear of light in the sky one April midnight of this year, he might have been pardoned for uttering a whoop of excitement. Astronomers, as a rule, do not whoop with excitement. But Mr. Gale had…

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Air Liner Missing. Fails to Reach Broken Hill. Big Dust Storm. Twelve Cars Search, Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 17

In a terrific duststorm, the Australian National Airways 'plane, Marika, flying between Melbourne and Broken Hill, disappeared this…

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