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Floods & storms, 1937

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Missing Plane Is Safe Landed on Station in Dust Gale Pilot Unhurt And Machine Not Damaged Radio Aid to Rescue Broken Hill

The Sun · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 3

THE Australian National Airways plane, Marika, reported missing yesterday, was found early this morning, by a party of motorists, near Redan Station, about 30 miles east of Broken Hill…

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Mail Plane Missing in Fierce Dust-storm Twice Overshot Destination: Air Search By Night Last Reported 28 Miles From Drome Broken Hill

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 1

IN a terrific duststorm early this afternoon, the Australian National Airways mail plane Marika from Melbourne twice overshot Broken Hill and is missing…

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Floodtide Looks Good Type Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 10

The New Zealander, Floodtide, who is one of the favorites for the Caulfield Cup, was seen by Melbourne racegoers for the first time when…

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Reservoir Floods Trenches Sniper Brings Plane Down London

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 September 1937 · page 3

BY blowing up a rebel reservoir, and flooding the trenches adjacent to it, Government troops made a 50-yards…

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[?]Motor Boats Gale Prevents Races

The Sun · Sunday 19 September 1937 · page 7

Owing to the strong gale yesterday speedboat and outboard events were abandoned at the opening…

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Havoc Caused by Gales Heavy Property Damage

The Sun · Sunday 19 September 1937 · page 1

Fierce, hot winds in N.S.W., Victoria and South Australia yesterday damaged property and crops and turned a holiday…

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Gale Gusts Skittle Boats On Harbor

The Sun · Sunday 19 September 1937 · page 1

Bowled over like skittles by 45-mile-an-hour gusts of wind, more than 30 sailing boats capsized in the Harbor yesterday…

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Season Opens In Gale::Boating Thrills

The Sun · Sunday 19 September 1937 · page 7

Miss Judy shows her frills.--On the choppy Harbor, speedboats threw up the spray at the opening of the R.M.Y.C. season. Miss Judy is owned by Mr. E. G. Glass. A yachtful of laughing girlhood, and they enjoyed…

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Red Dust Gale in Victoria Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 19 September 1937 · page 20

SINCE midnight last night Victoria has been in the grip of g gale heavily laden with red dust from the Mallee. When rain fell last night the…

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Nor'-west Gale Sweeps Harbor Clean As Whistle 18-Footers Blown To Bits Four Starters—none Finish in Hurricane Thought Burrinjuck Burst!

Truth · Sunday 19 September 1937 · page 9

IN its forty-seven years' history the Sydney Flying Squadron has bad many sensational episodes to thrill red-blooded open boat sailing fans. Yesterday, opening day of season 1937-8 made another notch on the historic gun of this…

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Melbourne Gales

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Air services were interrupted, property damaged, and all outdoor sport affected by gales, which whipped Melbourne and country…

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Gales Sweep. State. Pall of Dust. Harbour Storm. Many Craft Capsized

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 11

Gales swept the State during the week-end, accompanied by severe duststorms in the west and north. In the city the wind reached 56 miles…

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Storm Over Continent

The Sun · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 3

A map showing how the dual-storms have swept over many areas at the week-end.--See story, Page 7…

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Sydney Rocked by Wild Gale

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 5

SWEEPING down on Sydney with hurricane-like fury, a north-easterly wind on Saturday afternoon capsized in the…

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Mail Plane Crash Capsizes While Landing in Gale Occupants Escape Lightly Broken Hill

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 1

THE Sydney-Broken Hill mail plane crashed at Broken Hill aerodrome yesterday, while landing in a fierce dust-storm…

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Balloons on Fire. Electric Storm Upsets Experiment. Mishap at Cardington. London, Sept. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 12

An electric storm at the Cardington airship works set fire to 10 balloons which were in the air being used in an experimental anti-aircraft barrage…

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Wheat Crops Damaged Dried By Hot Wind: Two Bushfire Outbreaks Near City Gale Plays Havoc with Harbor Craft

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 7

MANY wheat crops were reported to be damaged at the weekend, being dried off prematurely by hot, dust-laden winds. Minor damage was also done to trees in fruit-growing…

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Pilot Tells Story. Peril in Storm. Dust Hides Town "Flew 90 Feet Above the Ground." Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 11

Pilot D. Saville, of the air liner Marika, told a vivid story of being lost in a blinding duststorm when searchers found him safe beside his 'plane 25…

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Flood Tide's Mentone Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 17

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Flood Tide, a New Zealand candidate for the Caulfield Cup, created a favorable impression at his first public appearance yesterday…

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Airliner in Storm

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 10

As a result of encountering a terrific storm after leaving Cootamundra yesterday, the Guinea Airways Lockheed- Electra plane, carrying 10…

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