Red Cross Appeals For Flood Victims
The Grafton Red Cross Society has launched an appeal for the relief of flood victims. Donations should be…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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The Two Floods
Measurements in the shoe store of Hockey Bros. at 82 Prince street, Grafton, provide a good indication of how…
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The floodwaters were used by the Grafton City council yesterday to clean streets of silt and rubbish…
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LISMORE, Mon.—A Woodburn police boat took a doctor four miles down the flooded Richmond River after midnight…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Floods had stopped mail services from Lismore to Maitland, where no trains were…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—An initial flood relief grant of £120,000 is being sought by the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Finnan) who is also chairman of the State Flood Relief Committee…
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Two books in the windows of C. W. Holton's newsagency in Prince street created considerable…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—All the resources of the would be thrown into the task of rehabilitating primary producers whose properties had been devastated by the disastrous floods on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flood Refugees Get Hot Soup
One hundred and twenty flood victims sheltering in the Grafton Courthouse sipped soup at 5 p.m. yesterday for their first hot food since Saturday morning…
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LISMORE. Mon.— With flood water receding over the whole of Richmond district. it has now been possible to…
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Rising floodwaters at McfFarlane bridge, Maclean, delayed the transportation of a four year old-boy with acute…
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DORRIGO. Tues.-- During the past week Dorrigo, swept by gale force winds and torrential rain, was completely…
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The funeral of the four Clarence flood victims will take place to-day. An army duck will be used to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The State Flood Relief Committee was arranging with the R.A.A.F. for a large-scale airlift to drop food and other essential commodities into…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Director of Transport and Highways (Mr. Winsor) said to-night that £2,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Trees Mark Flooded Roadway
On Sunday much of Grafton and South Grafton was covered by floodwaters from the Clarence. At Lismore, the Richmond had broken its banks. This picture shows the line of trees, which on Sunday afternoon, was all that marked the road…
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South Grafton Council held a special meeting yesterday to review the flood situation. They decided to ask the Premier of New South Wales to make adequate provision for compensating victims of the flood disaster…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Air Force Association has opened a flood relief fund with an initial subscription of £500 to assist…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Flood control measures should be given a high priority in the allocation of public works, the Minister for Conservation (Mr. Weir) said to-night…
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The Mayor of South Grafton (Ald. J. C. Lane) at yesterday's special meeting of the council,…
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