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Sydney · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1939

1,053 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 53

Goldberg and Boycott Storm In Tea-Cup, He Says

The Sun · Saturday 25 February 1939 · page 3

"Really, I have not been hurt, I am a worker myself, and I have nothing against the New Zealand workers. In fact I have a high…

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Daily News · Saturday 25 February 1939 · page 5

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Floods in South Africa. Durban, Feb. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 February 1939 · page 12

Renewed floods in the Eastern Provinces washed away railways and crippled vital services. Twelve natives were drowned. Hundreds are homeless…

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Flood Hold-up Aggravated Passengers Wait At Finke River ADELAIDE

The Sun · Saturday 25 February 1939 · page 3

Further heavy rains in the Far North and Central Australia, have flooded rivers and upset the Commonwealth railways plans to restore…

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Storm-Stressed

The Sun · Sunday 26 February 1939 · page 6

THE Old Man said it took more courage to sit down and wait than to go through. Tom Jeffs didn't think so…

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Big Floods Isolate Central Australia Trains Held Up; Telegraph Lines Down Towns Threatened With Shortage Of Fresh Food; Planes Are Grounded. ADELAIDE

The Sun · Sunday 26 February 1939 · page 10

Deluging great tracts of country for the third time this year, and causing floods and washaways, heavy rains in the far. north and central Australia have dislocated traffic. Four trains are held up at…

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Flood Relief Due For Mt. Isa BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 26 February 1939 · page 5

For a week Mount Isa has been cut off from rail communication with Cloncurry owing to the floods, but to-morrow it is expected that a train…

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Floods Replace Drought Heavy Rain in Wide Area Best For Years In Many Towns

The Sun · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 3

Drought-breaking rains with many falls of two and three inches have occurred over most of the State in the past 48 hours. Euston, in the dry south-west, had more…

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Daily News · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 5

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Victorian Floods. Noojee Washed Out. Motorists Held Up. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 12

Noojee, the township that was wiped out by. bushfires last month, has been flooded by heavy rain, and the homeless residents, who have…

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Roads Cut in Far North Flood And Famine Dangers

Daily News · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 2

Road, rail and air services are idle, and a food shortage is threatened, following floods which have deluged Far Northern and Central Australia for the third time…

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Floods in Vic. After 36 Hours' Rain Victims Of Bushfires Hit Second Time MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 February 1939 · page 2

Flood warnings were issued tonight after 36 hours of almost unceasing rain over most of the State. The Latrobe River at Noojee has burst its banks, and…

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Tasmanian Gale Launceston

The Sun · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 6

Tamar fruitgrowers have suffered heavy losses in a southerly gale which has destroyed from 25 to 30 per cent, of the near and early apple crop…

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Fishing Boats Damaged. Gale off Victoria. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 11

When a fierce south-westerly gale swept the Victorian coastline from Cape Otway to Gabo Island to-day, many ships in Bass Strait and the Tasman Sea…

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Freak Thunderstorm. Balloons Struck by Lightning. LONDON, Feb. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 11

A solitary lightning flash during a thunderstorm struck a winch ran up a steel cable and brought down in flames one of the six balloons of the Stanmore barrage…

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Big Area Flooded Washouts Delay Trains Optimistic Outlook As Rivers Rise

The Sun · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 3

Floods, causing railway washaways and making roads impassable, have replaced drought conditions in inland areas. The bounteous rains which began during the week-end continued in many centres to-day…

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Urgent Flood Warnings In Victoria

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.--Urgent flood warnings have been sent to all townships near rivers in Eastern. North-eastern…

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Fire--And Flood

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 5

FLOODS AT NOOJEE are now driving to the hills the same people whose homes were lost in disastrous bushfires only eight weeks ago. Picture shows a rescue car gathering settlers' belongings while flood waters from the Latrobe River rise at the rate of…

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24-Hour Fight with Cyclone

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.--Driven 260 miles off her course by a cyclone in the South Pacific, the Union Company's steamer, Tolten, was battered by…

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Tolten's Experience in Pacific Storm. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 20

On her voyage from Vancouver the Union Line's motor freighter Tolten, which reached Auckland to-day, battled for 24 hours with a cyclone in the South Pacific Ocean…

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