Paper Deluge Blacks Out Sun When Queen Honors War Dead
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1954 · page 2
Over the road which many years ago the pioneers sturdily trudged leaving Sydney town for the unknown across the Blue Mountains, the Queen and Duke travelled today when their car passed between troops, police and pipers manning, the Parramatta-road barricades behind which people, 20…
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Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 18
James Rooke, a Boree Shire Council employee, spent a nightmare hour in a flooded creek at…
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Central Western Daily · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 3
MAITLAND. Mr. Jam[?] McKenzie, former pro[?] representative on [?] Board has…
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National Advocate · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 2
BRISBANE, Sunday: In northern Queensland,' Townsville is preparing itself for the full effects of a cyclone which is now 20 to 30 miles out to…
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National Advocate · Wednesday 10 February 1954 · page 2
The exterior of Bathurst Town Hall was floodlit for the first time lost night as part of the Royal visit decorations arranged…
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Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 1
Flooded creeks were no bar to visitors to Dubbo from the Mudgee and Gulgong area on the occasion of the Royal Progress through that centre last Wednesday…
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Lithgow Mercury · Monday 15 February 1954 · page 2
ROCKHAMPTON, Monday.--The Fitzroy River, which broke its banks and isolated Rockhampton yesterday, is still…
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National Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 2
BRISBANE. Tuesday: The total of deaths In Queensland rose to seven today when Dollce found the body of Pat Sullivan near Springsure…
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Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 6
Torrential rain that has fallen over the eight days to 9 a.m. on Monday yielded a registration of 354 points at the Works Office. Conditions were sufficiently bad to enforce the adoption of…
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National Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 2
Aldermen of Bathurst Council were so impressed with the lighting focussed on Bathurst Town Hall in honor of the Queen's visit that they…
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National Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 3
A [?] made of [?] River and its [?] in the vicinity of Bathurst for flood [?] purposes…
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National Advocate · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 5
BRISBANE, Thursday: RAAF and commercial planes today delivered food and urgently-needed medical supplies to flood-bound towns in…
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National Advocate · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday: A warning that the main centre of the cyclone which has been causing havoc on the North Coast, should cover the Katoomba - Bathurst area at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning, was issued by…
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Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--The death-roll in the tragic North Coast floods has now reached 18, with the possibility of another four lives being added to the list of drownings. A trail of death and destruction has been left over thousands of square…
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Central Western Daily · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sunday—About 20 people are now believed to be missing in the worst flood disaster of northern New South Wales. Scenes of unparalleled destruction mark northern…
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National Advocate · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 2
Nineteen names are contained in an official list of the known victims of the north coast flood disaster released in Sydney today. At least four or five are presumed drowned in…
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Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--North Coast flood victims are today wading through receding muddy floodwaters back to wrecked and shattered homes. Meanwhile, R.A.A.F. Dakota aircraft are rushing blood plasma and medical supplies to Casino today for sick and injured flood victims in…
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Central Western Daily · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday.—The official death-roll in the disastrous North Coast floods has now reached 22. About six people are still…
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Central Western Daily · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 2
A shocking drowning fatality occurred in the floods near Armidale on Saturday afternoon, when a young married woman, with her two children, her brother and a sister were swept off a causeway while motoring across a creek in the raging torrent…
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National Advocate · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 2
A meeting of Bathurst Rotary Club last night decided to move in the matter of launching a relief fund for flood victims on the Far North Coast. Mr…
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