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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 68

Fast Sprints In Gale 3 Furlong Dash by Royal Prince Sidcup in Trial with Cup Horse

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 December 1937 · page 27

TRAINERS who wanted to make fast times easy for their horses at Randwick yesterday galloped them down the…

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Big Wheat Losses Ruin By Hail & Floods MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 3 December 1937 · page 7

THOUSANDS of acres of the State's best wheat-producing country in the north-west, from Sea Lake…

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Thunderstorm on Way Here

The Sun · Friday 3 December 1937 · page 3

Thunderstorms are expected in Sydney, according to a special forecast issued by the Weather Bureau this afternoon…

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Flood Deaths in Jamaica

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 December 1937 · page 3

KINGSTON (Jamaica), Thursday. -- It is officially known now that 53 people were drowned and 250 were left homeless by the floods which wrecked large…

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Storm Over Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 2

A violent storm which broke over Sydney at 6 o'clock last night was the precursor of a wet weekend. So said the Divisional Meteorologist…

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Arrest Expected at Week-end Shoppers Marooned by Storm "Blackouts" In The Suburbs Wires Snapped

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 1

TORRENTIAL rain, coupled with vivid forked lightning and heavy thunder, kept the thousands of Christmas…

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Man's Ordeal in Drain. Caught in Flood. Swept for a Mile. MELBOURNE

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

Herbert Browne, 20, of Rochester Road, Balwyn, was swept nearly a mile underground in the Hawthorn main drain to the River Yarra to-day…

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Floods in Victoria. Farmers' Losses. Driven From Homes. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 11

Violent thunderstorms, in which inches of rain fell in an hour in some districts, caused disastrous floods in the northern and central districts of…

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Sydney Thunderstorm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 11

After a day of sultry heat, a heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by exceptionally vivid lightning, broke over Sydney shortly after 7.30 o'clock last night. The storm, which moved…

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Main Bursts: House Flooded

The Sun · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 1

When the Alexandria trunk water main burst in Henderson-road, Alexandria, this afternoon, water scoured, a hole several feet deep in the…

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Flood Danger Has Passed Victorian Farmers Heavy Losses MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 3

Though falls of from four to five inches of rain were recorded in north-western Victoria yesterday morning, resulting in damage…

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Wealthy Australian Who Is A Power In North China Wars, Floods and Colorful Story Of Romantic Earthquakes Leave Racing Career Stable Intact

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 1

OUT of the heart of war-ridden China comes the picturesque story of…

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Havoc in Floods and Hail Stock, Crop Loss, Train Derailed Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 December 1937 · page 2

FLOODS, hailstorms, and torrential rain wrought havoc in the farming districts of Malice and northern and western…

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Dramatic Denouement Likely At Any Moment Storms Play Havoc Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 5 December 1937 · page 27

THE mystery murder of Mrs. Marguerite O'Brien, the 19-years-old city typist, is moving towards its dramatic climax. Police say that they know the identity of the killer, and that his motive is now apparent. THOUSANDS of pounds worth of hay and standing crops have been destroyed, stock drowned, and roads blocked by terrific…

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No Love For The Nazi "The Mortal Storm," by Phyllis Bottome, Faber and Faber, London

The Sun · Sunday 5 December 1937 · page 16

IN Mrs. Bigland's eye-witness account of Soviet Russia you have the friendly approach; but in Phyllis Bottome's novel of German life…

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Town Struck by Storm 75 Mile Gale Uproots Trees Outhouses Down; Cows Killed Taree

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 December 1937 · page 2

TREES were uprooted, outhouses blown over, and shops and houses flooded in a terrific storm which struck…

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Electric Storms. Damage by Lightning. Stock Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 December 1937 · page 14

Numerous severe storms occurred in New South Wales during the week-end. On Saturday afternoon the central part of the coast and the…

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Manly Summer Golf Cup. R.W. Davies's Win. Fine Round of 73 Played in Heavy Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 December 1937 · page 19

R. W. Davies, a left hand player, and a former junior champion of New South Wales, won the Manly Summer Golf Cup on Saturday from a strong field with a round…

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Flying Boat Overturns In Gale: 2 Dead ROME

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 December 1937 · page 1

An Australian passenger and a steward were drowned when the Imperial Airways' flying-boat Cygnus, homeward bound, crashed…

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Trail of Ruin. Victorian Flood's Toll. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 December 1937 · page 14

The work of repairing the damage done by the flood in the central and northern districts of Victoria, on Friday, will take many weeks, and will cost hundreds of pounds…

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