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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms

Floods & storms, 1950

715 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 16 of 36

R.S.L. Auxiliary Sympathy To Flood Victims

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 2

Sympathy to all who suffered losses and hardship in the Clarence River flood was expressed by the president of…

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Appeal for Flood Victims Extended

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Mayors of two capital cities have supported the scheme by the Lord Mayor (Ald. E. C…

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Flood-Isolated Family Have Enough Food

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Eight families still isolated at Brinerville, on the Bellinger River, have enough food to…

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Feeding Stock On Flooded Farm

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 3

MACLEAN, Thurs.--How to finance the feeding of a big herd of cattle on a farm two-thirds under water was a question posed to the Federal-State Flood Committee during question time at the…

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Suggests Using War Insurance For Flood Relief

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 6

COFF'S HARBOUR, Thurs. --A suggestion that funds raised during the war under the War Damage Insurance…

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Flood Havoc On Bellinger River

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 4

BELLINGEN.--A descriptive story of flood havoc, road damage, and isolation of residents on upper reaches of the flooded Bellinger River, was told by Mr. A. J. Sky, of Darkwood…

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Army Unit Busy On Flood Repairs

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 4

The Army unit which is assisting repair flood damage in the Clarence area will continue work in the South Grafton and Ulmarra municipalities and Harwood shire to-day…

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Letters To The Editor Flood Heights

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 2

Sir,--On the 27th June, the following pars, appeared in one of the Sydney afternoon papers. "At Maclean, houses never…

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Flood Heights at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 6

MACLEAN,-- Arguments, about the height of the 1050 flood compared with that of 1890 are numerous, and frequent…

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Grafton Red Cross Flood Relief Appeal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 2

Money donated to Grafton Red Cross appeal for flood relief would he used to purchase types of clothing for…

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Clarence Flood

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 2

AS the heartbreaking task of cleaning up goes on in hundreds of homes throughout the Clarence Valley, more…

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Livestock Increased During Flood

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 3

At least one Lower Clarence farmer has more livestock after the flood than before. He is Mr. J…

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Wide Distribution Of Flood Relief

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 3

Advance credits for scores of flood victims in the Grafton city and Copmanhurst shire areas were approved at a two-hour meeting yesterday of the joint committee appointed to control flood relief…

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Articles, Found After Flood

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 6

Grafton police have been given details of Property, lost during the flood, which has been found on Great Marlow farms…

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Floods Show Control Need

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Fri.--The recent disastrous floods should stir the whole nation into immediate action to harness the Hunter and Clarence Rivers to control floods and provide power and irrigation, the…

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Flood Damage At Tullymorgan

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

TULLYMORGAN.-- Several sections of the Tullymorgan Maclean road have been washed out, and in other places deep…

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Flood Rescue at Lawrence

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 4

Highlight cf the flood at Lawrence was the thrilling rescue of a family named Leeson from their barn at Heileman Island after they had been forced to evacuate their home…

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Money Needed For Flood Areas

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--Money was the most urgent need of flood victims, the New South Wales Director of Social Services (Mr. Rath) said to-night…

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Brood Mare Lost In Flood

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 5

The brood mare. Running Lady, has been missing from the McPherson's Crossing property of Mr. K. Brotherson since the…

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Twilight On The Floods

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 2

As many have stated, the accounts of the recent appalling North, Coast floods, made sad reading indeed…

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