To Provide £120,000 Flood Relief
CANBERRA, Tues.--The Commonwealth and New South Wales Governments will provide £120,000 flood relief to meet cases of individual hardship in New South Wales floods…
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Floods & storms, 1950
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Heroic Rescue From Floodboat
An heroic act was performed by Jack Chaseling, a member of one of the South Grafton floodboat crews at…
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KEMPSEY, Tues.--Chief dairy officer at Kempsey (Mr. J. S. Wilson) said to-day production will be grim for the next three months on the Macleay. FODDER is needed very…
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The emergency Ambulance post at Miss Doreen Zietsch's shop, near the Grafton High School, yesterday rendered first…
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WOOLGOOLGA, Wed.--Although there was no serious flooding, Woolgoolga received a severe buffeting from the cyclone during the week-end. The blow was the culmination of ten days heavy…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Mon.--Details of damage wrought by the worst cyclone in Coff's Harbour's history have come to band after three days' of silence. Communications with the outside world…
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Major E. J. Dawkins, officer in charge of the Salvation Army, Grafton has received clothing and food from…
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The Mayor of Grafton (Ald. W. R. Weiley) was delighted last night when a "Sydney Morning Herald" representative handed him a telegram asking him to accept £1000 for immediate distribution…
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The record flood which swept the Clarence at the week-end followed record rains over the area during the…
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Representatives of the State Flood Relief Committee will visit Northern Rivers towns early next month…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Commonwealth and five State ministers will confer in Sydney to-morrow about flood…
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The Army duck which acted as a hearse for the burial of the three men who lost their lives in the flood made two journeys to…
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Grafton police last night were waiting for advice from Australian Army authorities about a move to send 50 soldiers to the Clarence River for flood repair work…
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Members of the crew of one of the Army ducks which operated from Grafton yesterday said later that they had…
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ULMARRA. -- Mr. Alan (Boxer) Preston, who was on duty with the railway at Kyogle before the flood, was…
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Willing helpers unloaded relief supplies at Grafton station on Monday. The train from Casino carried 10 tons of fresh meat as well as clothing…
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COFF'S HARBOUR, Tues.--The secretary of the Coff's Harbour Urban Area Committee (Mr. H. Lovett)…
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Many returned servicemen in the Caffs Harbour District suffered severely from the cyclone last weekend. In some cases…
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The rainfall at Dorrigo for June gives an indication of the great run-off in that area which helped in the flooding of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shire Faces stupendous Task To Restore Road, Bridge Services In Wake of Worst Storm Battering on Record Survey of Damage Is Staggering
A quick survey of the Dorrigo Shire area by the Engineer and Assistant Engineer (Messrs. F. Dodd and L. Fowler) has revealed damage and desolation of such magnitude that the problem of restoration is staggering. Throughout the area roads have been washed away and badly scoured, bridges and culverts have…
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