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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1937

1,345 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 68

Flood of Molten Metal. Nine Men Injured. One in Serious Condition. Melbourne

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

Nine men were burned by molten metal which splashed from a ladle at the Melbourne Iron and Steel Mills, Brooklyn, on Saturday morning. One…

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Roar of Sound on Radio 'Storm' Music Cost £200 In Repairs

The Sun · Tuesday 7 December 1937 · page 9

Memories of a furious "William Tell" orchestral item on the radio were, recalled to-day by Mr. H. G. Horner, retiring N.S.W. manager of…

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Heavy Storm at Singleton. Singleton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 15

Two draught horses, six sheep, and three cows were killed by lightning during a heavy thunderstorm, which began during the weekend…

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Gallery Notes. Deluge of Business. Mr. Spender Votes Against Government. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 16

The calm of the House of Representatives last week was merely the prelude to the deluge. The stream of business began strongly from the start of the…

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Roofs Torn Off by Cyclone Houses Suffer At Bendemeer

The Sun · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 1

A cyclonic storm unroofed several houses at Bendemeer, near Tamworth, this afternoon; 135 points of rain fell, according to information…

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Just a Storm in a Tea-cup

The Sun · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 2

The heavy rain did not have a dampening effect on some of the racegoers at Ascot to-day. On the contrary, it generated some heat…

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Electrical Storm Tree Struck at Manly Flashes in Homes Wood Hurtles Past Woman

The Sun · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 1

Terror was caused in Chichester-street, Maroubra, to-day when lightning struck a radio aerial at…

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Floods in the Balkans. London, Dec. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 17

Twenty villages have been inundated, and [?]everal lives lost, in floods in western Greece. Heavy snowstorms, followed by a mild spell and heavy rains, caused serious floods and the…

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Damage by Storms. Fierce Gales. Country Towns Suffer. Houses Wrecked

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 11

Fierce storms did much damage in several parts of the State yesterday. The most destructive was a tornadie squall which swept for…

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Four Injured In Storms Gales Sweep Eastern Half of State Wind, Lightning Damage Houses And Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 2

FOUR people were injured yesterday during severe tropical thunderstorms. Extensive havoc was wrought by the…

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Near Death in Cyclone Glen Innes

The Sun · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 2

Trees were smashed and uprooted sheds and buildings unroofed, telegraph poles and chimneys blown down, and standing crops battered…

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Havoc in Wake of Big Storm

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 1

HEAVY thunder and hail-storms raged yesterday along the whole, of the coast line of N.S.W., from the Victorian border to Queensland. A SEVERE thunderstorm, which…

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Silver Market Storm Abates. London, Dec. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 12

The storm in the silver market abated to-day. Confidence is tending to revive after an intimation by the Secretary to the Treasury in the United States (Mr. H. Morgenthau,…

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Cyclone's Havoc Ravages Towns, Flattens Factory Piano Blown Out of Building Lismore

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 1

LARGE panel-beating works in Lismore were wrecked and a public hall at Ruthven was blown down in a cyclone…

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Flood Fears in France

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 3

PARIS, Wednesday. -- Heavy rains and rising rivers in the Tarn and Garonne Department, are causing grave anxiety. Firemen have already rescued 15 people…

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Cyclone Plays Havoc in Orchard

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 2

FLYING SHEETS OF IRON, torn by a cyclone from the roof of a house, made a sorry mess in the orchard of Mr. A. W. Habib, of Lismore. (Another picture on Page 5.)…

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North Coast Deluge Three Inches In 30 Minutes

The Sun · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 7

Three inches of rain fell in 30 minutes yesterday at Tyringham, on the North Coast. "It is phenomenal," said Mr…

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Havoc by Storms. Coroner's Lucky Escape. Damage on North Coast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 11

Reports received from country centres yesterday emphasised the destructive nature of Wednesday afternoon's cyclonic storms on the north…

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Women Athletes Compete in Melbourne — Country Storm Damage — Christmas Air Mail for London

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 14

Competitors nearing the finish in the 220 yards women's championship of Australia in Melbourne…

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Storm Over Tennis Domination N.S.W. Proposal for Drastic Action State Committee Discusses Victorian "Grab-all" Public's Resentment

The Sun · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 18

DRASTIC proposals were considered by the management committee of the N.S.W. Lawn Tennis Association to-day, following the cavalier treatment of this State by the Australian governing body in…

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