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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1949

376 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 13 of 19

Flood Appeal To Keep Open

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 2

The executive of the Grafton Rotary Club yesterday decided to keep open its Kempsey Flood Relief Appeal for another week…

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Farm Equipment Damaged By Flood

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 2

Farmers and machinery agents m the Macleay district have been servicing equipment damaged by the flood…

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Flood Appeal For Ex-Servicemen

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 3

Funds in the Macleay Ex- servicemen's Flood Appeal at Grafton have reached £140. The appeal, which was launched…

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Many Efforts to Help Flood Victims

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1949 · page 2

SWAN CREEK.--One hundred couples attended a dance at Swan Creek on Thursday and helped to swell the money for the…

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Stock Losses in Flood

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.-- Senator Armour said to-day that it was now believed that stock losses in the recent Kempsey floods…

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Promulgation Of Flood Warnings

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1949 · page 2

Inquiries will be made into the means of promulgating flood warnings and weather retorts in general stated the Minister for…

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Lesson Of Flood; Need New Stale

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1949 · page 3

If there was one lesson above all to be learned from the Macleay flood, it was that the people of the North Coast must control…

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Generous Support to South Red Cross Flood Appeal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 September 1949 · page 2

The president of the South Grafton Red Cross branch (Mrs. J. R. Russell) yesterday paid a warm tribute to the…

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Tragedy of Kempsey Flood

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 2

A week after the disastrous flood struck Kempsey, the two local newspapers, Argus and the Chronicle combined to issue a…

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Upper Orara Flood Relief Fund

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 1

The well-attended meeting at Upper Orara last Monday night, called by the PPU Branch to discuss the roads problem and…

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Old Age Pensioners Help Flood Appeal

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR, Thurs.--Although almost four weeks have elapsed since the Kempsey flood, donations continue to come in at…

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Flood Appeal By Ex-Servicemen

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 2

Donations to the Grafton ex-Servicemen's appeal for Kempsey ex-servicemen flood victims have risen sharply since circulars were…

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Flood Relief Appeal Closes To-day

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 September 1949 · page 2

The treasurer of the Kempsey Flood Relief Anneal (Mr. V. D. Hopper) said last night that the anneal would close to- day…

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One Night Carnival For Flood Relief

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1949 · page 2

The committee meeting of the Grafton R.S.L. last night decided to stage only a one night carnival for the ex-servicemen's flood…

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Storm Damages Sailing Fleet

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 6

The sharp storm and high wind which struck the Clarence at Grafton on Saturday played havoc with the Clarence…

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Karangi To Help Flood Appeal

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 2

At a meeting of the Karangi Branch of the Primary Producers' Union it was decided to call a meeting of the general public on…

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Flood Danger Passes As Weather Clears

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Danger of flooding on the 550-mile coastal belt of N.S.W. extending from Coff's Harbour in the…

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Cutworm Outbreak On June-Flooded Land

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 September 1949 · page 3

Vegetables and field crops gorwn in land that was flooded last June may be infested by cutworms this spring, as…

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Karang Flood Relief Fund

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 1

Karangi Branch of the PPU at last meeting decided to call a public meeting with a view to launching a local fund to…

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Pensioners Assist Flood Appeal

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 3

A special card party arranged by members of Coffs Harbour Old Age and Invalid Pensioners' Association resulted in the sum…

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