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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1938

1,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 64

America "Flooded" with Juices Commerce and Health Co-operate

The Land · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 19

JUICES of every kind are flooding the United States just now. Human beings are being irrigated by tomatoes, grapefruit, pineapple,…

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Worst of All Sweden's Floods Stockholm

The Sun · Friday 10 June 1938 · page 5

The worst floods in Sweden's history, have submerged whole villages in the Vasterbotten district, where troops of farmers are trying…

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Fisheries Research Vessel Damaged in Storms. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 18

with an extensive leak in the forecastle, which made it almost uninhabitable for the crew, the Commonwealth Government's fisheries research vessel Warreen returned…

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Storm Over S.p. in Govt

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 5

A STORM is threatening in Ministerial Party ranks over the Government's proposed…

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Big Floods in Sweden. Worsl in History. Troops Building Dams. Stockholm, June 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 18

The worst floods in Sweden's history have been caused by the rising of the Ume and Vindel rivers. Whole villages have been submerged in the…

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FLOOD. (On the North Coast.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 13

Night-long the grey-gum forest, Shivering, dripping, Under the cheerless rain And the wind's whipping…

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Storm Is Brewing on Coalfields Industry Needs Big Overhaul By Government Miners 70 Years Old in Work While Keen Young Men Can't Get Jobs NEWCASTLE, Saturday. Storm Clouds Are Gathering in the Coalfields, Where an Industry That Once Employed Over 23,000 Men Now Has Fewer Workers Than in the Darkest Year of the Depression

The Sun · Sunday 12 June 1938 · page 2

The miners are talking fight. They are organising for a long struggle because they say that only direct action will give them any alleviation of a situation which, on the surface, looks completely hopeless…

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Flood-lit Sheets Guide Air Girl to Landing Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 12 June 1938 · page 1

Guided by white bed sheets on the ground flood-lit by car lamps, Barbara Hitchens, the Sydney flying girl, landed in a log-studded field at Yarraman to-night…

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Tasman Gale Delays Liners

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 June 1938 · page 2

THREE liners are running many hours late, as a result of a fierce gale centred over the Tasman Sea. The masters of the Awatea,…

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Freighter in Peril. Nearly Driven Ashore. Fierce Tasman Gale. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 June 1938 · page 9

During a fierce cyclonic gale, which swept the castern half of the Tasman Sea, in the week-end, the 5,056-ton tramp steamer Liangollen…

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Gale Lashes Liners on Tasman Trip Three Reach Sydney After Dash To Regain Time

The Sun · Monday 13 June 1938 · page 3

After fighting a gale of almost hurricane force, with high head seas sweeping their decks, three liners with over 1000 passengers aboard, running hours late on the voyage from New Zealand, arrived off Sydney "Heads in a…

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Fierce Gale In Tasman 3 Liners Will Be Late Today Awatea's Battle in Huge Sea

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 June 1938 · page 2

ONE of the worst cyclones for years raged over the Tasman at the weekend,…

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Church Roof Fell High Pews Saved Worshippers Fierce Storm's Damage Near Kalgoorlie PERTH

The Sun · Monday 13 June 1938 · page 3

Only the high, upright backs of the pews saved 17 people from being killed while at worship in the Methodist Church at Southern Cross, near Kalgoorlie, last night, when the church roof collapsed at the height of a fierce…

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Repairing Flood Damage. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 June 1938 · page 5

The Gundurimba Shire Council recently called tenders for drainage works in the Dungarubba Creek and Stibbard's Creek areas in the mid-Richmond district, where farmers…

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Floods in N.Z. People Driven from Homes. Damage to Property. Christchurch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 June 1938 · page 9

Very heavy rain has fallen in most parts of the South Island in the last 21 hours and serious floods have occurred. At Enfield, near Oamaru, the public hall…

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Gales and Flood in N. Zealand Auckland

The Sun · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 7

The worst winter weather for years is being experienced in New Zealand. Mountainous seas are lashing both…

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Llangollen in Gale Returned To Port

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 4

The cyclonic gale which raged in the Tasman Sea over the week-end caused many delays in shipping, and was almost responsible for the British…

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Ocean Greyhounds in Stirring Duel Tasman Dash After Cyclone

The Sun · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 8

Using five of her six boilers, with 4250 horse-power dead, the Tasman record-breaker, Awatea put up a performance that has amazed shipping circles, by beating, the American liner Mariposa to Sydney Heads…

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Niagara in Gale. Passengers Suffer Broken Ribs. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 11

Two passengers suffered broken ribs and others were, treated for minor injuries in a gale which struck the Niagara on her voyage from Sydney to…

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Grain Ships. Windjammers' Progress. Penang Storm-tossed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 12

Of the 12 sailing vessels in this year's grain race from South Australian wheat loading ports to the United Kingdom, only three have been reported…

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