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Floods & storms, 1939

1,053 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 53

Storms on German Loan London, Monday. Our Own Cable Service

Daily News · Tuesday 25 July 1939 · page 1

A sensational admission that he had agreed with the Nazi Envoy,. Dr. Wohlthat, on a plan involving a loan of…

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Editorial Storm-Troops Of Culture

The Sun · Wednesday 26 July 1939 · page 1

A number of students of the Sydney University pelted a minister of the Church of England -- who attempted to speak on the National Register -- with crackers. No doubt these philosophers were a small minority, but they…

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FLOODED W.A. Railways Perth

The Sun · Wednesday 26 July 1939 · page 1

Because of floods, no train has passed over the main line between Albany and Perth since Monday. Arrangements have been made for…

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Storm Drains. Proposed General Rate. Opposition Roused

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 11

Strong opposition has been roused by a pioposal which the piesldent of the Water Board, Mr. Upton, made at yesterday's meering of the board, that…

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Cut Off by Floods Perth

The Sun · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 13

Lake Grace, in the southern wheat belt, for the fourth day is without transport communication because of floods. Parts of the railway line…

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Showers Later in Week-end Gale Raging In The Tasman

The Sun · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 2

To-morrow should be fine, according to the state Meteorologist (Mr. Mares), but there is a tendency to showery weather later in the…

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Flood Risk Delay On Cook's River Plan

Daily News · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 8

"If the reclamation of Cook's River districts is not speedily completed to the Prince's Highway so that the dam and floodgates there…

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Flood Damage To Siegfried Line LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 30 July 1939 · page 17

Despite German denials of recent flood damage to the Siegfried Line, the "News Chronicle's" Metz correspondent says that the damage is…

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Menace Of Floods In Dominion AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 30 July 1939 · page 11

Tremendous damage is feared as a result of the rapid thaw of snow in Otago and Southland…

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Dust Storms on Mars. Planet Obscured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 12

"Up to the present Mars has been very hazy and it has not been easy to see," said the Government Astronomer, Mr. James Nangle, last night. "This obscurity has…

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Prelate Flies Into Violent Storm

The Sun · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 3

A Dutch plane on which the Apostolic Delegate to Australia (Archbishop Panico) recently travelled from Singapore to Medan. East…

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Out Door Australia the Weather Prophets Birds and Animals That Foretell Storms and Floods Meteorological Sense

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 19

THAT birds possess a meteorological sense has long been a matter of common observation, but it is only recently that meteorological science has taken up the subject officially…

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German Crops in Flood Danger Berlin, Sunday. Our Own Cable Service

Daily News · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 3

Troops, are helping laborers in a feverish attempt to repair the dykes of the Oder River, which has overflowed,…

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Buildings Rock in Storm Windows, Radios Smashed AUCKLAND

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 2

Buildings rocked, and windows, radio sets, and crockery were smashed in an electrical storm in the…

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Electrical Storm. Damage in N.Z. Telephones Torn From Walls. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 13

A violent electrical storm at Manaia (Taranaki Province) to-day caused extensive damage to electrical equipment, scorched walls, rocked…

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Gale Beats Airliners Launceston

The Sun · Wednesday 2 August 1939 · page 2

A terrific south-easterly gale, lashing Bass Strait, compelled all Tasmanian airliners to turn back on flights to-day--the first interruptions…

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Golf in Heavy Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 August 1939 · page 11

Torrential rain added to the hazards of golf at The Lakes course yesterday, when advertising men competed for the Macquarie Cup. M. J. Beveridge is shown, protected by an umbrella, playing out of a bunker…

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Killed in Heavy Rain

Daily News · Thursday 3 August 1939 · page 2

Vincent Gordon Green, 59, a relief worker, was killed instantly when knocked down by a car in Prince's Highway, near Sutherland, last night…

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That was a gale, not a storm

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 August 1939 · page 6

Yesterday the wind blew through Sydney at speeds up to 40 miles an hour. Sydney is not a notoriously breezy…

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Weathered The Storm

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 3 August 1939 · page 10

IN his presidential address to the recent International Wool Conference in Brussels, M. Maurice Dubrulle, of…

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