19 Inches of Rain Cyclonic Gales Lash Dorrigo No Train's or Mails — District Isolated
Gales of cyclonic force swept over the Dorrigo district this week, bringing torrential downpours of rain which fell…
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Floods & storms, 1948
279 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 14
Any Flood Relief Victims?
Mrs. R. Truscott, secretary ,Dorrigo branch of the Red Cross, has received an urgent telegram from Red Cross Headquarters enquiring…
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It has often been said that things are never so bad that they could not have been worse. This reminds us that, bad as…
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While receding flood waters left a trail of desolation in the residential areas of Grafton and South Grafton yesterday, the centre of danger shifted to the Lower Clarence areas…
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AN officer of the Department of Labour and Industry and Social Services (Mr. C. E. Cotton) arrived on yesterday's North Coast mail to give prompt Government succour to flood victims. Mr. Cotton was met by the…
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LISMORE, Thursday. --Honey mooners from Maclean are amongst the flood refugees stranded in Lismore Court House…
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LISMORE, Thursday.-- Floodwaters which have surged from the two upper firms of the Richmond River reached a level in the mid-Richmond district, more than a foot higher than the record 1945 flood…
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Lack of action on the part of the Government in regard to flood prevention, soil erosion and the building up of hydro-electric…
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IN Prince street yesterday, Ron Phelps, 14, proudly displayed a three foot black snake, which he had killed in the floodwaters in…
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MACLEAN, Thursday.-- Floodwaters at Maclean at 9 a.m. this morning had reached the greatest height since the famous 1890 flood. The level was six inches higher than the 1945 and 1946 floods…
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CANBERRA, Friday.--Cabinet to-day decided to make a grant of up to £10,000 as flood relief to New South Wales, said the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) to-day…
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LISMORE, Fri.--Police reinforcements and food supplies for 500 people were sent to-day to Broadwater, where the Richmond…
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Clarence River sporting fixtures will be disorganised for more than a week because of inundated sports grounds…
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Twenty-four hours after the flood waters had receded from from Skinner and Through streets, South Grafton, people…
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Most of the water in the Grafton only area last night was east of Dobie street, but a considerable portion of the area bounded by…
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NOW the time of acute crisis and danger from the floods has past on the Clarence River, hundreds of families, farmers, businessmen and property owners are assessing their losses and trying to get order out of near chaos. Many will have cause to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--Engineers at present surveying the Clarence Valley had indicated that the basin in the Gorge would effectively hold floodwaters, the Minister for Conservation (Mr. Weir) said to-day…
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Main Roads Department officials yesterday could give no indication when main roads from Grafton would be open…
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First driver to pass through the flooded Pacific Highway from Maclean to Grafton was Mr. J. Dougherty, P.M.G. Department…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Flood Losses on Clarence Grave Setback to Primary Producers
Flood damage in the Clarence River district may reach £500,000, according to local government and primary industry authorities yesterday. With its production expected to be cut by as much as 85 per…
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