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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

376 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 19

£1000 Mark Passed in Flood Appeal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 September 1949 · page 2

Last night the Grafton Rotary Club Kempsey Flood Victims Appeal Fund reached the total of £1009162. YESTERDAY'S donations…

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Ulmarra Dance To Aid Flood Appeal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 September 1949 · page 4

ULMARRA.--Kempsey flood relief appeal fund will benefit by about £80, as a result of a dance held at the Masonic Hall, Ulmarra…

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Kempsey Flood Victims Agric. Assn. To Help

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 1

At the Agricultural meeting on Tuesday a telegram from the executive of the Agric. Societies was read seeking donations of…

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More Help for Flood Victims

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 5

An appeal for assistance for victims of the floods in the Macleay Valley was launched at a public meeting held in…

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Help for Flood Victims

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 4

Among those who organised parties to go to Kempsey to assist in flood relief was the Salvation Army at Taree…

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Variety Show for Flood Victims

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 8

The Tasma Theatre will rock to its foundations when the show being organised by Joe Williams in aid of relief funds…

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Flood Warning Committee

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.--The Conservation Authority of New South Wales will set up a committee to go into the whole question of flood warnings…

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Fishing Crews Help Flood Appeal

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

Two fishing crews from Iluka sent a cheque for £82 to the treasurer of the Grafton Rotary Club Kempsey Flood Victims Appeal Fund yesterday…

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Flood Relief For Soldier Settlers

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

Soldier settlers who have suffered loss of stock or property through floods may apply for relief on instalments, interest or…

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Emergency Flood Committee

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

MACLEAN.--An emergency flood committee has been formed at Maclean. It will have headquarters at the Maclean Police…

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Bigger Flood Grant Sought

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Thurs.--At a public meeting to-night it was decided to submit an urgent request to the Federal and State…

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Flood Relief From Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

BELLINGEN.--Members of the Bellingen Red Cross branch have worked actively to provide flood relief, sending across to…

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Remarkable Feat During Flood

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 2

KEMPSEY, Thurs.--One of the most remarkable feats to live in the history of the Macleay flood was the action of fishermen…

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Cascade Girls Help Flood Relief Appeal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 September 1949 · page 2

Two young girls, Marcia Spooner and Patsy Lee, of Cascade, Dorrigo district, topped yesterday's donations to the Grafton Rotary Club Kempsey Flood Relief…

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C.W.A. Assisted In Floods Relief

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 September 1949 · page 2

Cartons of clothing, fruit and vegetables had been sent to Kempsey for flood relief, stated the president of the Grafton…

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Police Escape In Flood Rescue

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 3

One of the most exciting and dangerous experiences of the Kempsey flood was that of Constable George Baxter and Mr…

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Another £55 for Flood Victims

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

Another £55 8s 4d has been forwarded to the "Sydney Morning Herald" Macleay Flood Victims' Fund. This was sent down…

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Tragedy of the Flood at Kempsey

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

A week after the disastrous flood struck Kempsey the two local papers. "Argus" and "Chronicle," combined to issue…

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Flood Threat in Hunter Valley

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--If heavy rains fall in the Page and Hunter Rivers area Maitland will be threatened with its third flood in three months. The Hunter River was only…

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Calamity Of Flood Not Realised

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 2

NEITHER the State nor Federal Governments realised the colossal calamity of the Kempsey flood, said Mr. Owen Hynes, of Grafton, yesterday. He said that he had been in…

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