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Floods & storms, 1939

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Hot Meals in Gale Hispaniola's Menus

The Sun · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 3

How many wives could turn out a varied menu for a husband and two small boys, while a 30ft. ketch…

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Daily News · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 8

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Exclusive News From Telegraph Correspondents Conscription Deemed Certain Britain Holds Stage France Pleased, Gibes From Germany, Italy Storm Expected From Labor Opposition London

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 3

THE virtual certainty of conscription in Britain dominates the international situation. Compulsory service in the United…

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Daily News · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 6

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Cyclone

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 18

OUR island home. So restful and so calm, With golden mornings and blue afternoons,…

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Daily News · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 6

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Bedraggled Sheep on a Flooded Road

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 7

A recent scene in the south-west, where heavy rain, despite its hampering effect on farm work, brought welcome relief from the long dry spell…

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Pilot Fights for Life in Wild Storm

The Sun · Sunday 30 April 1939 · page 2

A black westerly squall struck Sydney suddenly late yesterday afternoon. While the pilot of a small plane was fighting for his life against the squall, it swept across the harbor in the form of a "willy-willy," catching several yachts…

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An Editorial Storm-Troopers Of Australian Air Force

The Sun · Sunday 30 April 1939 · page 2

In Germany and Austria, where Storm-Troopers are mostly young men, excesses against the person and the individual are frequent. In Germany and Austria, provided they are committed in the interests of the Party, these brutal assaults do not become the subject…

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Norths Down Manly in Union Would Have Won Without Aid Of Gale

The Sun · Sunday 30 April 1939 · page 6

The wind and the rain and a much superior team in Northern Suburbs combined yesterday to defeat Manly by 24 points to 8 in a Rugby Union game which had its bright moments at North Sydney Oval…

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Daily News · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 6

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Section for Girls and Boys (Conducted by South West Wind.) Turquoise Island Chapter Xi. the Cyclone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 23

UNCLE DAN strode to the porthole to gaze at the still, lurid sky. There was no wind, and the whole world seemed to be waiting with breathless expectancy, bathed in a sultry, yellow…

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Lived In Hut With Natives Airman Back at Darwin Made For Beach In Storm DARWIN

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 5

Roy Edwards, the Darwin pilot, who was found yesterday after he had been missing since…

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To The Editor What Were the R.A.A.F. "Storm Troopers" Trying to Prevent?

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 6

WHEN the heat of temper and nerves cools down and one is able to look at the regrettable incident of your photographer being assaulted at Richmond…

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Daily News · Wednesday 3 May 1939 · page 6

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— on the Land — Heavy Coastal Rain. Sowings Hampered. Winter Fodders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 May 1939 · page 7

Heavy rain last month on coastal areas, while promoting the growth of pastures, hampered the sowing of winter fodder crops and interfered with…

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Easter Floods

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 May 1939 · page 15

ENID DALE (Birriwa).—Recently I arrived home from a month's holiday with my auntie at Naronme. I had a wonderful time and thoroughly enjoyed inself. My parents came…

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Storms Lay Bare Cultivation Lands

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 May 1939 · page 12

Sharp lessons in soil erosion have been given in many districts by recent rams. In the Cowra district, prepared fallows and sown paddocks alike…

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Daily News · Friday 5 May 1939 · page 5

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Maitland Gale. Anniversary of Two Wrecks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 May 1939 · page 13

Forty-one years ago a great storm, now known as the Maitland Gale, raged along the New South Wales coast. The gale continued for several days, but…

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